WEEK IVWORDS  etc.

HEXAGON
EMPIRE
Since c. 1000, Christendom knew 2 empires, a Western one based on coronations at Rome but ruled by German kings, and another Greek one based on Constantinople but called "Roman".
VIKINGS, SARACENS (Muslims, Arabs)
CASTLE         "DONJON"/DUNGEON
TERRITORIAL PRINCIPALITIES         CAROLINGIAN
CORONATION         SACRAL KINGSHIP
CAPETIANS      MOST CHRISTIAN KING         ANGEVINS
LOUIS VI d. 1137         LOUIS VII 1137-80      PHILIP II AUGUSTUS 1180-1223
ROYAL DEMESNE/DOMAINS      
Demesne is, inter alia, the lands a lord holds and manages himself without a subordinate tenant

1st CRUSADE 1095 (COUNCIL OF CLERMONT)   1099 CAPTURE OF JERUSALEM
3rd CRUSADE 1188-93
4th CRUSADE  => CONQUEST OF CONSTANTINOPLE 1204

France and the Hexagon
    Meanings of "France"
    Fragmentation of Carolingian Empire, Age of Invasions?
          Castles and Territorial Principalities
    Rise of Capetian authority from Paris outwards
          1st from Ile-de-France
          Then the confIdence trick
          Confrontation with the Angevins
    Context for the Alibensian Crusade

Crusade