Solve these clues to fill the grid.
- Originally a person of noble birth trained to arms and chivalry
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- The social system that developed in Europe in the 8th century
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- A wilderness at the edge of a settled area of a country
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- King of the Franks and Holy Roman Emperor
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- A formal religious ceremony conferring a specific grace on those who receive it
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- A levy of one tenth of something
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- A person holding a fief
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- Any of the Scandinavian people who raided the coasts of Europe from the 8th to the 11th centuries (plural)
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- A sporting competition in which contestants play a series of games to decide the winner
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- King of the Franks who unified Gaul and established his capital at Paris and founded the Frankish
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- The mansion of a lord or wealthy person
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- A body of citizens sworn to give a true verdict according to the evidence presented in a court
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- The epidemic form of bubonic plague experienced during the Middle Ages when it killed nearly half
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- The royal charter of political rights given to rebellious English barons by King John in 1215
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- A document incorporating an institution and specifying its rights
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- A person who is bound to the land and owned by the feudal lord
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