Medieval Vocabulary
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- Coat of Arms
- a family crest that knights were in battle that has symbols that represent him and/or his family
- Lord
- a person who has great power over others and lives in a castle and has many people under his rule
- Knight
- a man who received land and titles in exchange for serving a lord or king as a soldier
- Tournament
- an event in which knights jousted against each other
- Merchant
- a person who practices a trade and sells goods for profit
- Page
- a boy who assist a knight and is a knight in training
- Cathedral
- a large and important church
- Manor
- a large estate often including a villagend farmlands, ruled by a lord
- Serf
- a peasant that lives on a manor and belongs to the land
- Monk
- a man who lives in a monastery with other men and follows thepractives of a religious order