While waiting for instructions they normally sat around a fire and spoke of the days tasks that had occured or past histories. Some even drinking if they knew they wouldn't be leaving for a while to attack or defend a certain place.
War.
Andrew McNeil has written: 'Knights at War' 'Battlegame Book 3' 'Galactic war' 'Knights at War (Battlegame Books)'
No.
England is where most knights were. some were in china
When knights were not at war, they usually had their estates to manage, and lived normal lives doing that. Some knights did not have estates and hired themselves out do to any job they could get, which often meant taking some sort of job in a garrison or in government. There was always a problem after wars with what to do about displaced knights who had lost estates, because if they could not find anything else to do, they often banded together to be highway robbers.
Knights were needed by noblemen to protect their land and also the king used them in war
Yes, because the king could call upon his knights and nobles to fight a war.
The Templar primarily fought the Muslims, but were infamous for declaring war on anyone that opposed them.
Carried knights into battle and trampled people.
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"Some knights did not sit at Arthur's Round Table."
Early death or wounds from war.