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- 3. a large country house with lands; the principal house of a landed estate.
- 6. a sporting event in which two knights (or two groups of knights) jousted on horseback with blunted weapons, each trying to knock the other off, the winner receiving a prize.
- 9. pre industrial agricultural laborer or a farmer with limited land ownership
- 13. each of a series of medieval military expeditions made by Europeans to recover the Holy Land from the Muslims in the 11th, 12th, and 13th centuries.
- 16. a defensive wall of a castle or walled city, having a broad top with a walkway and typically a stone parapet.
- 19. a bridge, especially one over a castle's moat, that is hinged at one end so that it may be raised to prevent people's crossing or to allow vessels to pass under it.
- 20. someone or something having power, authority, or influence; a master or ruler.
- 21. a member of a religious community of men typically living under vows of poverty, chastity, and obedience.
- 23. the action of buying and selling goods and services.
- 26. the son of a monarch
- 28. the system by which coats of arms and other armorial bearings are devised, described, and regulated.
- 30. a man who served his sovereign or lord as a mounted soldier in armor.
- 31. an estate of land, especially one held on condition of feudal service.
- 32. a deep, wide ditch surrounding a castle, fort, or town, typically filled with water and intended as a defense against attack.
- 33. a sovereign head of state, especially a king, queen, or emperor.
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- 1. a country, state, or territory ruled by a king or queen.
- 2. an agricultural laborer bound under the feudal system to work on his lord's estate.
- 4. a member of a religious community of women, especially a cloistered one, living under vows of poverty, chastity, and obedience.
- 5. The daughter of a monarch
- 7. a holder of land by feudal tenure on conditions of homage and allegiance.
- 8. the principal church of a diocese, with which the bishop is officially associated.
- 10. system was the combination of the legal, economic, military, and cultural customs that flourished in medieval Europe between the 9th and 15th centuries
- 11. a professional joker or “fool” at a medieval court, typically wearing a cap with bells on it and carrying a mock scepter.
- 12. a large building, typically of the medieval period, fortified against attack with thick walls, battlements, towers, and in many cases a moat.
- 14. belonging to a hereditary class with high social or political status; aristocratic.
- 15. the body of all people ordained for religious duties, especially in the Christian Church.
- 17. a person or company involved in wholesale trade, especially one dealing with foreign countries or supplying merchandise to a particular trade.
- 18. the male ruler of an independent state, especially one who inherits the position by right of birth.
- 22. a type of fortified tower built within castles during the Middle Ages by European nobility.
- 23. a compulsory contribution to state revenue, levied by the government on workers' income and business profits, or added to the cost of some goods, services, and transactions.
- 24. a male ruler of a small independent state.
- 25. the female ruler of an independent state, especially one who inherits the position by right of birth.
- 27. an object surviving from an earlier time, especially one of historical or sentimental interest.
- 29. the medieval knightly system with its religious, moral, and social code.