Middle Ages

2. high birth and rank
3. a missionary who went to Ireland to convert them to Christianity and has a holiday named after him.
7. an organization of people in the same craft or trade
10. cast out from the church
12. a place where monks live
14. the royal charter of political rights given to rebellious English barons by King John in 1215
16. kings granted land to lords/vassals in exchange for military service and loyalty
17. the office of the pope
20. Known as the medieval period, after the collapse of the Roman Empire.
21. a person who served a lord in
22. a person who controlled land and could therefore grant estates to vassals

1. church officials
4. a large and important church
5. as a boy he pulled a sword out of a stone that could only be pulled out by the one true king.
6. a large estate often including farms and villages ruled by a lord.
8. a knight who promised to support the lord in exchange for land
9. a disease brought to Europe by the Mongols. It killed 1/3 of the population
11. a medieval king of the Franks who was crowned the Holy Roman Emperor of
13. a knight's code of conduct stresses generosity
15. a deadly plague that swept through Europe between 1347 and 1351
18. land granted by a lord to a vassal in exchange for loyalty
19. a man who lived isolated from ordinary life and community with total dedication to God.
20. Latin term meaning middle ages