Across
- 3. a lower ranking peasant; someone who lived in a cottage but had no land to farm
- 4. a medieval term for a peasant who was wealthy
- 7. a class of people just below knights
- 11. a man with an income that was not a knight
- 12. a man who rented land from the landowner
- 13. the steward or overseer for a lord
Down
- 1. a peasant of middle rank who farmed about 10-20 acres
- 2. a lord who held land granted from the crown and served on the king's privy council
- 5. a man who owed military service to his lord in exchange for his lands
- 6. a man in command of an army
- 8. the highest title a man without royal blood could earn or inherit
- 9. a member of the aristocracy with royal blood
- 10. a free man who swore his loyalty to a lord