Key Terms-Medieval Europe

Relating to the time period in European history also known as the Middle Ages; the period in Europe after the fall of the Western Roman Empire

• Medieval
• Hierarchy
• Middle Class
• Investiture
• Manor System

An armed warrior who fought on horseback

• Vassal
• Knight
• Nobility
• Apprentice
• Serf

A political and military system based on the holding of land, with an emphasis on local protection, local government, and local self-sufficiency

• Authority
• Manor System
• Feudalism
• Medieval
• Guild

In the Feudal system, the person who makes a grant of land to another person

• Peasant
• Vassal
• Serf
• Lord
• Journeyman

In the Feudal system, a person granted land from a lord in return for services and loyalty

• Peasant
• Lord
• Serf
• Apprentice
• Vassal

A grant of land from a lord to a vassal

• Vassal
• Apprentice
• Borough
• Fief
• Charter

An estate from which the lord’s family gained its livelihood

• Charter
• Borough
• Manor
• Guild
• Economy

A peasant who was legally bound to their lord’s land

• Apprentice
• Serf
• Vassal
• Knight
• Journeyman

The loyalty owed from a vassal to his feudal lord

• Fealty
• Authority
• Piety
• Feudalism
• Manor

A socially or politically privileged class whose titles are given by inheritance or royal decree

• Nobility
• Middle Class
• Journeyman
• Burgher
• Guild