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Knights were the lowest rung of nobility during the middle ages. They were essentially soldiers for hire, and most of them were thieves, murderers, rapists, and worse; though if they were victorious in battle, they were awarded lands, and even titles. Tournaments were not the polite, colorful jousts we imagine, but were often brutal, wholesale slaughters. The version of the chivalrous knight we have today comes from the writings of Thomas Malory; his Le Morte D'Arthur, which was written while Malory, a knight himself, was imprisoned for several of the crimes enumerated above. This romanticized version is mainly fiction.
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Why did popularity of using knights in battle declineby the 1400s?
Battles like Agincourt proved that knights were not best troop you can have on battlefield, knights were often impetuous and this was not always an advantage, a standing army defending a strategic position proved to be much more effective than a cavalry charge, much more strategys to defeat heavy cavalry of knights were developed and knights were always less effective, another reasons are the expenditure on knights wages, maintenance, rewards..etc
Why couldn't women become knights?
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Knights used to be famous because in their time they were guards, warriours, fighters, and protectors. The reason they were more famous was because they had alot of movies made about them to but that isn't the main reason the main reason is. Back then Knights were noble warriors and everybodu could trust them. Noble warriours of the king!
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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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Battles like Agincourt proved that knights were not best troop you can have on battlefield, knights were often impetuous and this was not always an advantage, a standing army defending a strategic position proved to be much more effective than a cavalry charge, much more strategys to defeat heavy cavalry of knights were developed and knights were always less effective, another reasons are the expenditure on knights wages, maintenance, rewards..etc
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