Across
- 3. Tournament or combat of two mounted knights, using lances.
- 4. Officer of the royal household who served as the monarch’s secretary or notary.
- 6. The title of an officer given command in an army or an important garrison
- 8. Man responsible for running the day to day affairs of the manor or castle in absence of the lord.
- 10. Free man who held land from a lord to whom he paid homage and swore fealty.
- 12. formal public acknowledgment of feudal allegiance.
- 13. a long weapon,having a wooden shaft and a pointed steel head, formerly used by a horseman in charging.
- 14. Lord’s overseer or steward
- 17. The highest title attainable by an English nobleman who is not of royal blood.
- 18. Normally the king’s eldest son
Down
- 1. a man who served his sovereign or lord as a mounted soldier in armor.
- 2. Town with the right of self government granted by royal charter.
- 5. a vassal or subject.
- 7. A method of trial in which the accused was given a physical test which could be met successfully only if they were innocent.
- 9. A dry measure of 8 gallons, or 4 pecks.
- 11. A room
- 15. Badges and clothes provided by a lord for their followers
- 16. an oath by which a vassal swore loyalty to his lord