Across
- 1. class of rich people, nobles or lords
- 9. building where monks lived
- 10. clowns before a lord to make them laugh
- 13. act of removing a persons membership from church
- 16. very poor people who worked for lords
- 17. qualities of a good knight, bravery, respect for women
- 18. well to noble who owns an estate
- 20. head of the roman catholic church
- 22. poor people who worked on manors
- 23. a period of several hundred years during the dark middle ages
- 28. deep,wide, water-filled ditch surrounding a castle
- 29. contest or joust between two knights or two groups of knights
- 30. man of honor in the military
Down
- 2. court to punish heretics
- 3. where the lord and his knights lived
- 4. an official of the church such as priest, bishop
- 5. fall of the roman empire in 476 and ended with modern period 1400
- 6. large piece of land owned by a lord
- 7. holding beliefs that the church felt were wrong
- 8. clergyman of the christian church
- 11. contest between knights on horseback
- 12. arrangement between lord, vassal,, and serf for ownership of land
- 14. a high official of the catholic church appointed by pope
- 15. land given for military service
- 17. expeditions sent by the pope to capture the holy land
- 19. church official who oversaw the work of priest
- 21. noble who was given land by the lord in return for military service
- 24. covering of iron worn by knights
- 25. person who rules a country during middle ages
- 26. people of the middle ages believed it represented god's rules and teachings
- 27. man who gives up property to serve god