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16 Cards in this Set
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Vassal |
Typically, a man of combat who swore an oath of fealty to bring both fiscal and military aid to a lord, usually in exchange for property with which to support himself |
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Fief |
Unit of property, usually real estate granted by a lord to a vassal in exchange for military service and counsel |
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Oath of fealty |
Formal pledge of fidelity made by a vassal to his lord to support him in his military efforts |
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Feudal armies |
In theory, a force comprising of all who owed military service to the king or a lord, but in practice vassals vassals rarely meet this obligation |
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Manor |
Collection of peasants dwellings and a lord's residence surrounded by agricultural land that the peasants cultivated for the Lord |
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Desmesne |
Portion of an estate whose produce was reserved for the lord's use |
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Serfs |
Peasants whose residence on a plot of land that the cultivated for a lord was compulsory and hereditary |
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Bailiff |
Peasant who served as the Lord's overseer and manager on a manor |
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Vikings |
Scandinavian warriors who raided the coast of Europe and the British isles |
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Magyars |
Nomadic people from central Asia who invaded the Franking kingdom and the Byzantine empire; known eventually as Hungarians |
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Alfred |
King of Wessex is southwestern and south-central England who stopped the invasions of the Danes |
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Norsemen |
Raiders and traders from the region now known as Norway who seethed on the northern coast of modern France |
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Sagas |
Poems relating ancient stories |
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Beowulf |
Epic poem written between 700 and 1000 in Anglo-Saxon that tells the story of a hero form Scandinavia who defeats the monster Grendel |
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Otto l |
King of the eastern Franks, crowned emperor in 962 |
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Duke |
A title similar to but superior in rank to that of count |
