Across
- 3. the sacred rites of the church
- 5. a loosely organized system of rule in which powerful local lords divided their landholdings among lesser lords
- 6. a group of men sworn to speak the truth in court
- 7. a holy war
- 10. a punishment in which people could not receive the sacraments or a Christian burial
- 13. wandering musicians
- 15. a mounted warrior
- 16. meaning "of the middle age"
- 17. a type of peasant who could only leave the manor when given permission
Down
- 1. lesser lords who pledged service and loyalty to the greater lord
- 2. a contract that stated a powerful lord granted his vassal a fief and a lord protects his vassal and the vassal is loyal to the lord
- 4. mock battles that knights engaged in
- 5. an estate
- 8. a word meaning worldly
- 9. having authority over all secular rulers including kings and emperors
- 11. an order that excludes an entire town from the church
- 12. the lord's estate that contained one or more villages and the surrounding lands that peasants lived and worked on
- 14. a code of conduct that required knights to be brave, loyal, and true to their word