Church Roles
Served as traveling ministers with the main goal of teaching people to live good lives
Friar
Became mayor of the Frankish palace and united the Franks; his descendants rule the Carolingian Empire
Charles Martel
Trial by ordeal gave more authority to who?
Royal officials
This person took the Frankish crown away from the Merovingians and defeated the Lombards
Pepin the Short
What was a knight's code that made them protect the weak and help those in need?
Chivalry
leading up the Magna Carta, the nobles led a revolt against who?
King John
Harold
Led services and instructed people how to live and worship; developed and preserved many Christian doctrines
Priest
First Frankish king; conquests shaped a nation that would later become the French nation
Clovis
The famine and plague blank Europe's feudal economy.
Weakened
This person extended the Frankish Kingdom to great size and was successful on the battlefield during his military campaigns.
Charlemagne
What did a vassal receive in exchange for his loyal service to the lord?
a piece of land to use
What did a noble receive for performing a service to the king?
an estate called a fief
The king of England died in what year without an heir?
1066.
Devoted their lives to the church, took vows, and lives in convents.
Nun
Son of Charles Martel; gave conquered Lombard lands to the leaders of the Roman Catholic Church
Pepin the Short
What war weakened feudalism as power shifted from feudal lords to monarchs and common people.
Hundred's Year War
The chief norse god
Odin
Who could not appeal legal decisions since the Lord's decision was final?
Peasants
What caused feudalism to arise in the middle ages?
Harold forced William to attack first by placing his men along what?
The top of a hill
Served as the patriarch of the Roman Catholic Church
Pope
Greatest of the Frankish kings; crowned by the pope as emperor of the Western Roman Empire
Charlemagne
Conflict between the who and who eventually led to the compromise agreement that allowed the church to appoint its own officials.
Church and State
The blank were the first European people to discover Iceland, Greenland, and the North American Atlantic coast
Vikings
Feudalism lacked the blank of a strong central government and military, resulting in conflicts between rival lords and their armies.
Unity
Place these terms in the correct order: knight, king, vassal, page, squire, noble, peasant.
King, noble, Knight/Vassal, squire, page, peasant.
William asked his what to provide him with men and supplies to form an army? (Daily Double)
Vassals
Served as church leaders within districts, helped the church patriarch direct the activities of the clergy. (Daily Double)
Bishop
Ruler responsible for the Frankish empire dividing because it was too large; he divides the empire between his sons.
Louis the Pious
The Crusades caused some blank to sell or mortgage their properties to pay for their Crusade expenses.
What type of Viking invaders raided different parts of Europe
Scandinavian
All England became a feudal kingdom, William was called the Conqueror, a royal line called the Normans began as a result of what?
Norman Conquest
The blank brought a rebirth of leaning
Renaissance
What did Harold's men form when fighting William's men
A wall of shields
Lived in monasteries; copied the Scriptures and writing from the early centuries of the church.
Monk
Person who signed the Magna Carta
King John
Some scholars and thinkers made efforts to return to the teaching and practices of Scriptures, eventually leading to the what?
Reformation
Founded a monastery and wrote a set of rules for monks to follow
Benedict
A sheriff decided land ownership with the help of a trial by jury and the courts practiced trial by ordeal all under who's reign? (Daily Double)
Henry II
At the time of the division of the Frankish Empire what happened:
the languages of the Franks in the western and eastern parts of the empire began to change and western Frankish was developing into French, and eastern Frankish was developing into German
Who won the Battle of Hastings? I need his full title before his new nickname.