Across
- 4. A large estate, often including farms and a village, ruled by a lord
- 5. rescued the knight if he fell in battle; helped the knight put on his armor
- 8. Ran errands for ladies; learned self defense
- 10. A system of government based on landowners and tenants
- 11. Ceremony in which a squire became a knight
- 13. A man who received honor and land in exchange for serving a lord as a soldier
Down
- 1. A knight who promised to support a lord in exchange for land
- 2. the ceremony by which a man became a vassal and thus eligible for a fief
- 3. land granted by a lord to a vassal in exchange for loyalty and service
- 4. A person who buys and sells goods
- 6. an agricultural laborer bound under the feudal system to work on his lord's estate.
- 7. In feudal Europe, a person who controlled land and could therefore grant estates to vassals
- 9. little vassal or little lord; shadowed the knight and set his table
- 12. The object fired by a crossbow