What was a knight's religion in the middle ages?

Answer 1

There are two distinct meanings of the word knight. One was a heavy cavalryman, a man who would fight from horseback with heavy weapons, as opposed, for instance, to a mounted archer. So medieval writers might refer to the cavalry of an Islamic army as knights.

The other meaning of knight was a man who had been knighted by a king. (In earlier times, people other than kings knighted people in some places.) This required going through specific training and, finally, ceremonies. In practice, the people who did this were normally Christian. After the Great Schism in 1054, they would have been Roman Catholic in Western Europe, or Eastern Orthodox in the East.

There were monastic orders of knights, and these, of course, required their knights to be of their religion. Those I am aware of were all Roman Catholic.

Answer 2

Most medieval knights were Christian, and most were rather orthodox in their beliefs. They were unlikely to be anything but Catholics.

There were times and places where heretical sects dominated areas of Europe, and the knights in those areas were more likely to be members of those sects.

The term "knight" was sometimes applied by crusaders to those Muslims who fought from horseback. This was not general usage, however.

Answer 3

The medieval knights of Western Europe were nearly all Catholic. In Eastern Europe, after the East-West schism, knights were mostly Eastern Orthodox, but when we think of medieval knights, in their armor, we are usually thinking of Western Europeans.

Answer 4

the knights lived in the medieval times and in that time about everyone was Christian so knights were probably Christians

Answer 5

Christianity.