Middle Ages

Name: ______________________   Date: ____________

Use the clues to fill in the crossword.

Across

  1. 2. Originally a person of noble birth trained to arms and chivalry (6)
  2. 8. The social system that developed in Europe in the 8th century (9)
  3. 11. A wilderness at the edge of a settled area of a country (8)
  4. 12. King of the Franks and Holy Roman Emperor (11)
  5. 14. A formal religious ceremony conferring a specific grace on those who receive it (9)
  6. 15. A levy of one tenth of something (5)
  7. 16. A person holding a fief (6)

Down

  1. 1. Any of the Scandinavian people who raided the coasts of Europe from the 8th to the 11th centuries (plural) (7)
  2. 3. A sporting competition in which contestants play a series of games to decide the winner (10)
  3. 4. King of the Franks who unified Gaul and established his capital at Paris and founded the Frankish (6)
  4. 5. The mansion of a lord or wealthy person (5)
  5. 6. A body of citizens sworn to give a true verdict according to the evidence presented in a court (4)
  6. 7. The epidemic form of bubonic plague experienced during the Middle Ages when it killed nearly half (10)
  7. 9. The royal charter of political rights given to rebellious English barons by King John in 1215 (10)
  8. 10. A document incorporating an institution and specifying its rights (7)
  9. 13. A person who is bound to the land and owned by the feudal lord (4)