Early Middle Ages

The most powerful Germanic people in the early Middle Ages were the

• Angles

• Saxon

• Germans

• Franks

Known as "King of the Franks"

• Otto I

• Alfred the Great

• Frederick I

• Clovis

The best known “mayor of the palace”, and stopped the Muslim advance into Europe at the Battle of Tours

• Charles Martel

• Charlemagne

• Alfred the Great

• Peppin I

Charlemagne’s education reforms created a renewed interest in the Bible and as a result, monasteries became the ________ ______ of the Middle Ages.

Charles the Bald, Louis the German, and Lothair divided Louis the Pious’s kingdom into three parts in the Treaty of ______.

The Frankish king at the height of the Frankish empire that left a lasting legacy of political and social changes in Europe

• Charles Martel

• Charlemagne

• Peppin I

• Phillip II

Match the following

• Ile-de-France

• Survey of English property taken by William the Conqueror

• Domesday Book

• Capetian owned area around Paris

• Chivalry

• First royal line of the Franks

• Merovingian

• Knights code of behavior

• William the Conqueror

• Norman duke who conquered England

Known as Barbarossa, ______________ sought to restore the glory and stability of what he termed the “holy empire.”

• Frederick I

• Frederick II

• Otto I

• Charlemagne

The Saxon king that ruled Southern England and laid the foundation for a unified English monarchy was _________________.

• Charlemagne

• Henry the Fowler

• Henry I

• Alfred the Great

Land grants given by a lord in return for services are called ________.

• Serfs

• Vassals

• Fiefs

• Homage