Across
- 4. a young man of noble birth who as an aspirant to knighthood served a knight.
- 5. to fight on horseback with lances.
- 6. a place where a religious group resides; the center of Christian life.
- 10. intellectual or spiritual enlightment.
- 13. a wooden plate or platter for food.
- 15. a political system that once existed in Middle Ages of Europe.
- 17. an estate of land, especially one held on condition of feudal service.
- 18. an agriculture laborer bound under the feudal system to work on his lords estate.
- 19. belonging to a hereditary class with high social or political status.
- 23. a cruelly malicious person who is involved in or devoted to wickedness or crime.
- 24. an official messenger bringing news.
Down
- 1. a person who learns a job or skill by working for a period of time.
- 2. a member of a class of persons who are small farmers.
- 3. a sporting event in which two knights jousting on horseback trying to knock each other off.
- 6. a deep, wide trench, usually filled with water surrounding a castle or town.
- 7. a man who has withdrawn from the world for many reasons.
- 8. the principal church of diocese, containing the bishop's throne.
- 9. a person who has control or power over others.
- 11. a large building or group of buildings fortified against attack with thick walls.
- 12. a member of a men's Roman Catholic group who is poor and teaches Christianity.
- 14. the system of values that knights in Middle Ages were expected to follow.
- 16. any covering worn as a defense against weapons.
- 20. the entire leaf of such a printed or written thing.
- 21. a mountain soldier serving under a feudal superior in the Middle Ages.
- 22. a large plot of land that can make up many things.
