Across
- 2. a person who receives field use in exchange for paying a lord with respect, obedience, and typically military service or its equivalent
- 4. The ideal lifestyle of a medieval knight, includes acts of valor, allegiance, and respect for ladies
- 7. the firstborn child's birthright of inheritance, particularly the feudal system in which land is inherited to the eldest son
- 9. European Christians have launched military campaigns to reclaim the Holy Land from Muslims.
- 11. an arrangement where citizens provided tax and services to monarchs and lords in exchange for their safety. Fiefs were lands distributed to vassals, who were the receivers of the land.
- 12. wealthy property owner
Down
- 1. a military combatant
- 3. A peasant is a subject who is typically bound to a lord's estate and forced to perform tasks for that master.
- 5. Property bestowed to a vassal by a Lord in return for service or loyalty
- 6. a facility used by a group of monks who take the oath to live in solitude there
- 8. being expelled from the church
- 10. a piece of property that belongs to a lord and grants him the authority to exercise certain rights, impose taxes, etc.