Medival Vocabulary Flashcards
Feudalism
Government by land owning nobles
Fiefs
Land grants, large estates
Noble
Member of the upper class, included kings,lords,ladies,barons,and knights.
Vassal
Noble who served a lord of higher rank and gave him loyalty
Ladies
Noble woman
Knight
Warrior on horseback, wore armor and protected the kings land
Squire
Young noble under care and training if a knight (12-15 years old)
Page
Young boy who helped knights of the castle
Code of Chivalry
Certain rules for knights to live by
Heraldry
System of identification used by knights in battle
Dubbing
Special ceremony to make a squire a knight
Tournament
Special contests for knights
Joust
Contest on horseback between two knights, most popular even at tournaments
Serfs (Villeins)
Medieval peasants, bound to the land
Freeman
Peasants who paid the noble the right to farm their land
Excommunicated
To lose membership in the church
Heresy
To go against the churches beliefs
Crusades
Series of holy wars fought between Christians and Muslims
Burgs
Medieval towns
Burghers
Merchants in medieval towns
Manor
Self sufficient farming communities
Canon laws
Laws set up by the Catholic Church
Clergy
Religious leaders
Cathedrals
Grand churches headed by bishops
