Medieval Vocabulary

2. A high-ranking noble who has power over others.
6. Political order, under feudalism, nobles governed and protected people in return services.
7. A feudal estate belonging to a vassal.
9. A mounted man-at-arms serving a lord.
10. A group of merchants or craftspeople.
11. The system, spirit, or customs of medieval knighthood.

1. They paid the nobles for the right to farm the land, and worked only on their own land, and has rights under the law.
3. 1,000 year period between ancient and modern times.
4. Top of the social classes and rulers.
5. A member of the peasant class tied to the land and subject to the will of the landowner.
8. A lower-ranking noble under the protection of a feudal lord.