What is the definition of a knight in the Middle Ages?

Answer 1

AnswerThis is an unanswerable question. Even if it could be recorded, the question implies that there was a singular first knight instead of a cultural movement towards the use of what we now call knights. AnswerThere was no first knight in the Middle Ages. Knights predated the Middle Ages.

Knights were important in the society of Republican Rome. They were heavy cavalry, and were always around in greater or smaller numbers. When the Middle Ages began, the Germanic groups that founded the nations of Western Europe already had knights, as did the Byzantines.

Answer 2

Good question. The best answer I could find was Sir Bedivere, charged by a dying Arthur to hurl Excalibur back into the lake from whence it came, was one of the first men to join the Fellowship of the Round Table.

Answer 3

A professional warrior from a noble family trained from very yound age to become a elite soldier.Coming from a wealthy family the knight also was much better equiped than a normal man at arms.

Answer 4

We can't know the answer to this. There are no written records.

Answer 5

Sir Lancelot, but he is not real!

Answer 6

i was. muahahahahhahaha

Answer 7

a noble