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| William of Normandy | led an army of knights across the English Channel to invade England in l066 and became the king of England after winning the Battle of Hastings |
| King Harold | the last Anglo-Saxon king who was defeated in 1066 when his foot soldiers failed to defeat heavily armed knights |
| Francis of Assisi | the patron saint of animals who started a group of Catholic monks that rejected wealth for a life of simplicity and poverty |
| Henry II | king of England who increased the power of the king, created a body of common law throughout all os England, and tried to put royal control over the Church |
| Thomas a Becket | the archbishop of Canterbury who refused to allow any royal control over the Church, which got him murdered by four of the king's knights |
| Magna Carta | a charter of rights signed by King John recognizing the king's rights are limited and not absolute |
| Charlemagne | a French king that expanded the size of the French kingdom to cover much of central and western Europe and was later crowned the Holy Roman Emperor |
| Thomas Aquinas | tried to unite the ideas of the Church with ideas of Aristotle, which were totally different from the ideas of the Church |
| Joan of Arc | a French teenager who was known to have visions that led to her helping the French army to push the English out of France, which led to her execution by the English |
| Henry V | the English king who led the English to victory over the French at Agincourt |
| Agincourt | the site of a battle between the French and the English in the Hundred Years' War that caused 1,500 French knights to die in a major English victory |
| Crecy | the first major battle of the Hundred Years War in which English archers devasted the French cavalry in an English victory |
