Across
- 4. a combat in which two knights on horseback attempted to unhorse each other with blunted lances.
- 6. a decoration of lights, usually colored lights.
- 8. a person who has authority, control, or power over others; a master, chief, or ruler.
- 9. (in Christianity) a man who has withdrawn from the world for religious reasons, especially as a member of an order of cenobites living according to a particular rule and under vows of poverty, chastity, and obedience.
- 11. Roman Catholic Church. a member of a religious order, especially the mendicant orders of Franciscans, Dominicans, Carmelites, and Augustinians.
- 12. of arms a surcoat or tabard embroidered with heraldic devices, worn by medieval knights over their armor.
- 14. a person who serves as a professional copyist, especially one who made copies of manuscripts before the invention of printing.
- 15. a person that works as a slave.
Down
- 1. a mounted soldier serving under a feudal superior in the Middle Ages.
- 2. a fortified, usually walled residence, as of a prince or noble in feudal times.
- 3. a trial of skill in some game, in which competitors play a series of contests:
- 5. plague another word for black death.
- 7. a member of that branch of the Northmen or Scandinavians who in the 10th century conquered Normandy.
- 10. something you have to do before becoming a squire
- 13. a decoration of lights, usually colored lights.
