Knights

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2006: Gary McHugh

2005: Antonio Banderas, Gabriel Plener

2003: Rene Haustein

2001: Kerem Alisik, Thomas Badek, Angela Marsden

2000: Bruno Bichir, Mario Colli, Bruno Bichir

1999: Geir Pettersen

1998: Antonio Banderas, Conrad Roberts, Abel Woolrich

1990: Oivind Blunck

1988: Tito Nunez

1979: Amjad Khan

1977: Mathieu Demy

1976: Rodolfo de Anda

1975: Alain Delon, Monica Swinn, Navin Nischol, Franco Franchi

1974: Frank Langella

1972: Jean-Michel Dhermay, Douglas Frey

1971: Carlos Quiney

1969: Nino Vingelli, Spiros Focas

1968: George Ardisson, Dean Reed

1965: Tony Russel

1964: Rafael Bertrand

1963: Gordon Scott, Pierre Brice, Guy Stockwell

1962: George Ardisson

1961: Luis Arroyo

1960: Jeffrey Stone

1953: Jose Suarez

1947: George Turner

1940: Tyrone Power

1939: Reed Hadley

1937: John Carroll

1936: Robert Livingston

1926: William Elie

1925: Douglas Fairbanks

1920: Douglas Fairbanks

1981: George Hamilton

Medieval tournaments evolved from the military games of the Roman Empire. The first tournaments that were called by that name, which had a new, medieval, character, happened some time around 940 or 950. But it was not until about 1050 or so that the tournaments took on the form we would recognize, with knights jousting and so on. The critical issue here might have been the inventions of the stirrup and arched saddle, without which jousting is really not possible.

Basic medieval armor for a knight was called mail. Mail is made by a very labor intensive process where wire is formed into small interlocking links and secured with small rivets. In modern times this has been referred to as chain-mail, but the term was not used during the medieval period. Mail was very expensive, both due to its metal content and the amount of labor required to produce a set.

Mail covered the chest, back. upper arms, and would hang to somewhere between the waist and knees. Such a mail garment was called a hauberk. Additional arm and legs protection, commonly made of hardened leather, were also sometimes worn. Under the mail the knight would wear a long garment made of multiple layers of quilted cloth called a gambeson. The gambeson was to protect the knight from being chafed by the metal armor, and also to add additional protection against blunt force. Even if a weapon was stopped by the mail, a tremendous amount of kinetic energy was still delivered, and people in medieval battles were often effectively beat to death even if their armor managed to deflect the edges of weapons.

Common soldiers would sometimes wear a gambeson or similar garment without the benefit of mail. While far less protective that the metal mail, the gambeson would sill afford some protection, especially against blunt weapons such as clubs, maces, and hammers. There is also some chance that bladed or pointed weapons may become deflected or tangled by the multiple layers of quilted cloth, particularly if the blow was weak or glancing.

It is also possible, but not entirely certain, that soldiers that could not afford mail might have also worn hardened leather doublets or jackets. No such leather pieces are extant, but there is some documentary evidence that armored leather doublets were made. A document in the Ashmole manuscripts in the Bodleian Library describes a process of making a "defensive doublet" by taking two partially cured layers of leather and laminating them together with a middle layer of glue, pulverized glass, and iron filings, and then attaching the leather to a shaped frame to dry.

Soldiers both common and aristocratic would have worn helmets of various styles. Also, a neck guard, known as a gorget, of either leather or metal, may have been worn.

As the middle ages progressed armor became more complex and elaborate. Additional pieces, such as joint guards, splint armor, and coats-of-plate were added as supplements to the mail. This type of armor is known as transitional armor, as it is in transition from simple mail to the full fledged plate armor. There were many designs, the exact details of which are beyond the scope of this post, but all essentially were attempts to add additional protection to the mail hauberk. Genuine plate armor came only in the last century of the middle ages.

The squire, the squire was a knight in training, when he reached the right age he became a knight, til that he had to assist his master/knight and learn the fighting techniques from him.

The idea of an "evil" knight is from the movies. There has always been good and bad people. The middle ages was a time of chaos, killing, slavery, and feudalism. The most powerful controlled the weak and they did it with any means that they could.

They didn't get paid. They got food, a bed, and training.

The medieval Knight had a wide variety of weapons to chose from. He usally held a sword in one hand and a shield in the other, If not a sword he would hold a; Mace,Axe,two handed Sword,Two handed axe and the other weapons that would crush the bones of the enemy.

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To protect them from sword cuts and glancing blows from arrows.
Knights wore armour so they would be protected from the enemies they faced.
To protect them from swords and javelins in battle and jousting. Safety first!

The leggings of maille armour were usually called "chausses", and were indeed an armour reserved for wealthier knights initially, but were considered a lower quality of armour as coats of plates, brigandine and full plate harnesses gradually came out (with similar style parts covering the legs).

Well a knight was usually of noble birth so he was generally higher within the social classes, which may lead you to believe that he treated other classes poorly but many knights also lived by a code of chivalry which would include defending the defenseless, always speak the truth, and respect and honor women. In this sense a knight was revered as saintly, kind, and gentle. So from that you could say that a knight treated all social classes with due respect and kindness.

Not a flag in the modern sense; you mean the gonfanon bauçant, carried by the gonfanier (the Order's standard bearer). The name means "piebald banner" and was black-over-white.

The Knights Templar were Christians. Their original purpose was to assist travelers to the Holy Land. Legend has it that they hunted for relics of Christianity in the Holy Land. They also developed the first banking systems in Europe. The institution of the Knights Templar was destroyed by one of the Kings of France and the Roman Catholic Pope because they were becoming too powerful. Also, the king of France at the time wanted to claim the riches of the Knights Templar for the French Crown. The monarchy did not have much money at the time of the Templars.

The code of chivalry gave respect to women in medieval times. It also kept loyalty within kings, lords, and knights.

Monks in monasteries during the middle ages were among the few, like the nobility, who could read and write. Because of this, most of the knowledge was kept restricted to that small sect of people. It wasn't until Johann Gutenberg invented the first printing press in the 1450's changed the situation so that knowledge was made available to everyone, and that was the main influence that spurred on the Age of Enlightenment.

A case can be made that monasteries almost single-handedly saved western civilization. After centuries of civil war and corruption the Roman Empire slipped away into history when Odoacer deposed the last Roman Emperor in 476AD. Barbarian hordes swept over the west and razed the last vestiges of this once mighty empire, squabbling over its territories and scattered riches. Europe entered what is commonly called "The Dark Ages".

Most major city centers lay in ruins, however, monasteries, because they were remote and hard to access, remained and within them were retained the culture and book knowledge lost everywhere else. Monks relentlessly copied and recopied Greek and Roman manuscripts as well as holy books, thus keeping the kernel of future civilization alive. The monasteries also served as the vanguard of future civilization, for when a monastery was founded, people naturally flocked around it to enjoy its spiritual and material benefits, and very often, this served as the nucleus of a budding town - not a few cities came out of such humble beginnings. Monasteries were often check points for travelers, forts in times of conflict, distribution centers in times of famine, hospitals in times of sickness, neutral grounds for conflicting parties to voice grievances and make pacts as well as being bastions of knowledge and skill.

Certain orders of monks were missionary in spirit and it was they who went out to conquer the barbarians with religion rather than the sword. Through a long organic process, monks actually were heavily responsible for making The Enlightenment possible by civilizing the barbarian tribes whose progeny, in forgotten centuries later, would ironically claim the Church was barbaric. If you ask a Catholic, they call the Dark Ages "The Golden Age of the Church" because the Church acted as the sole light in that dark time, and the monks played a huge role, both strong and resolute, in bringing Faith and civilization back from the brink of extinction in the west.

What is often forgotten is that monks preserved knowledge, were inventors of rudimentary machinery, many alcoholic beverages and types of cuisine, basic science, preserved language and knowledge, tutored pagan chieftains who would begin the royal lineage of kings and the lords of established realms, encouraged agriculture and land development, re-established Latin as a universal language and made connections with one another, thus laying the ground work for a new system of European unity. Reading and writing was not seen as it is today, but was as much a tool as a plane was to a carpenter and a plow to a farmer; the oral transmission of knowledge and traditions was the common way of doing things.

Centuries of struggling for basic survival culminated in a slow recovery that finally bore fruit: civilization gradually reemerged. With civilization came a new leisure class, one that would challenge kings as well as the Church, for though it did not have power or nobility, it had money. This leisure class wanted power and influence and its members desired to have access to and develop the knowledge and ideas the monks had been maintaining for centuries. The Church had established by this time public universities open to those whose discipline was for things of the mind, which usually meant nobles, the emerging middle class and religious. The middle class, with its drive to carve a spot for itself out of medieval Europe, introduced a new aggressive spirit, which manifested itself as humanism in intellectual circles. It rapidly expanded upon ideas and thinking and was quick to harness print in order to disseminate its views far and wide with great alacrity. This sudden influx developed into The Enlightenment. The Enlightenment came to despise the monks for their caution and seeming lack of enthusiasm to push into new ways of thinking and experimentation and it resented that they strove to temper it with their ponderous doctrine and moral considerations. It was ultimately a culture clash more than an issue of Faith, and ultimately, the monks were forgotten and sometimes killed in the revolutions that would later result. The Enlightenment was very much a bourgeois phenomenon, for it did not help the common man; farmers still farmed, tradesmen still plied their trade with very little of what we would call education.

For centuries, the monks coaxed civilization back from the ashes of the Roman Empire. Eventually, a new and safe society emerged that allowed for profitable trade and business, and the monks were discarded. These days, the monks are largely discredited, if they're even mentioned at all. The monks have stuck to their monasteries, as they had in centuries past and as they still do, bastions of the Faith and time capsules of knowledge should the west crumble again. To this day, however, the Enlightenment and its children have forgotten their roots in the ancient monasteries in Europe.

Henry the VIII was a good roman catholic but he then turned into a protestant (church of England.

being a knight would be good because when you came back from war people would recognise you as there hero even someone they would look up to this would definatly be a good thing weather there could be the bad things aswell you could die at war and your family could get very upset but then that could turn around you could die being loved a hero anddie a strong man

It takes a knight about 25-30 minutes, depending on the size and parts of the armor.

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This depends on the kind of armor they are supposed to wear. Usually it takes around half an hour if someone is helping with laces and buckles.

A Medieval Lord was simply known as LORD, YOUR LIEGE, or YOUR HONOR. The rank below a Lord was vassals, below vassals were serfs, which is the lowest position.

Also he could be known as Sire.

Squires practiced with real weapons and learned how to ride war horses

Knights were nobles so they had nice quarters in a manor or estate.

Let's just say they weren't "knights in shining armor", most knights were not quote end quote wealthy; the middle ages were a dark time, and being a knight was not as glamorous as we in the twenty first century make it out to be.

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