The Church's Eldest Daughter
What country is considered the Eldest Daughter of the Church?
What is France?
What is the name of the Muslim Invaders of Christian Spain?
Who are the Moors?
What French leader stopped the Moors from coming into France?
Who is Charles Martel?
He famously chopped down the sacred oak tree of Thor.
He famously encountered a countrywoman who did not know he was the king.
Who is King Alfred?
A very long spear meant to be used from horseback.
What is a lance?
A person who went to fight the Muslims in the Holy Land was called this, which means "cross bearer."
What is a crusader?
This Holy Roman emperor is famous for his conflict with Pope Gregory VII over lay investiture.
Who is Henry IV?
What King was the first to convert in France?
Who is King Clovis?
What does the word "Islam" mean?
What is Submission?
What famous Carolingian King became the 1st Holy Roman Emperor?
Who is Charlemagne?
A land north of Germany.
What is Scandinavia?
The old British were Christians, but the Anglo-Saxons were _______________.
What are pagans?
An armor suit made up of thousands of tiny interlocking metal rings.
What is chain mail?
a band of knights who took religious vows, known as "fighting monks".
What is a military order?
Heny IV spent three days doing penance here before Pope Gregory agreed to speak with him.
Where is Canossa?
What is the name of King Clovis's saintly wife?
Who is Queen Clotilde?
Who is the founder of the Muslim religion, Islam?
Who is Mohammed?
What Pope crowned Charlemagne?
Who is Pope Leo III?
St. Boniface was martyred while holding?
What is a Bible?
Pope Gregory the Great sent this Benedictine monk to evangelize England.
Who is St. Augustine of Canterbury?
Benedictine abbey that rises five hundred feet above the sea level atop a rocky island off the coast of Normandy.
What is Mont Saint-Michel?
The First Crusade was summoned by ______________
Who is Pope Urban II?
The practice of a new bishop receiving his staff and ring from his temporal lord, who was a layman.
What is lay investiture?
What saint baptized King Clovis?
Who is St. Remigius?
Name at least one Christian belief that Muslims reject?
1. Jesus's divinity
2. The whole Bible
3. The Holy Trinity
4 that God's grace is necessary for salvation.
Learning once again flourished through the Carolingian Empire, this is known as?
What is the Carolingian Renaissance?
The apostles to the Slavs were.
Who are St. Cyril and St. Methodius?
After the Anglo-Saxons took over, this nation was renamed.
What is England?
Ethelred's son, who was a just and pious ruler.
Who is St. Edward?
A determined opponent of the crusaders who wanted to end the Kingdom of Jerusalem and restore it to Muslim rule.
Who is Saladin?
The buying and selling of Church offices or spiritual goods.
What is simony?
The Frankish kings were also called what?
Merovingians
What is the name of the Catholic leader in Spain who began the Reconquest of Spain from the Muslims from the top of a mountain?
Who is Pelayo?
What does Renaissance mean?
Rebirth
He studied the Slavic language and invented an alphabet and a writing system.
Who is St. Cyril?
Which Anglo-Saxon king was baptized in 600 AD?
Who is King Ethelbert?
An embroidered cloth, often with pictures or designs that tell a story.
What is a tapestry?
The bishop of Constantinople, who was excommunicated by the papal legates sent by Leo IX?
Who is Michael Cerularius?
The reforming monk who was elected pope and took the name of Gregory VII.
Who is Hildebrand?