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How were knights trained?

Updated: 9/15/2023
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Young Noble boys who showed promise started knight training around 7 or 8 years old. As they approached their teens they were made Squires to a knight. Some stayed and others would leave the "program". A young man became at knight at 21. An interesting bit of trivia about knights is that they were not allowed by law to wear rings.

Many of the early knights were little more than thugs for the local Nobility and were more like the mafia than the shiny knight in armour that we think of from stories. It wasn't until the Church stepped in and made the knights vow before relics of Saints that they would no long harm or kill widows, children or the elderly that some order was brought to the knighthood.

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