Knights

"Beau Seant", i dont know french language but seems that it mean "Be Glorious"

Middle age knights were controlled by the feudal system. All of their life was controlled and the knights Templar was also formed in the Middle Ages. The members of the orders of Religious knights were both monks and knights and they took vows of chastity, poverty, and obedience as well as to protect pilgrims and fight infidels. This was a moral system of the knight. In the early middle ages the knight seemed more like an arm of the mob than the a knight of chivalry. They supported the laws and dictates of the feudal lord and would raid villages in the area. The church began to institute the vows mentioned above and the behavior was controlled. Knights owed a certain number of days to the feudal lord and were to train on a regular training schedule. They couldn't wear rings ( it was against the law) and could only wear the minor colors of nobility.

Two men mounted horses and rode towards each other with lances raised. If they hit at a certain area on the other knight's armor it was a point, if they unseated the knight off of his horse he won the match, and if the lance broke it could be counted against him. As the tournament went along it was finally left with the last two men standing who matched against each other. The one left was the winner. There are men today who still joust and have competitions.

The tournament included jousting, the sport we see on TV, in which knights charged each other on horseback with lances.

The melee was another sport of the tournament, in which knights, and sometimes infantry, charged each other in sport combat. It was sport, but it was also deadly.

There were other forms of martial arts, called hastiludes. Some of which, such as the tupinaire, we know by name, but we do not really know what they were.

There were other, somewhat less violent, sports. One was jousting at a barrel of water, which would douse the knight in the event of a poorly aimed strike. Another was jousting at a practice dummy, which could spin violently if hit.

Most of these sports were banned because they could be deadly. They have been recreated, but with an eye to safety.

King Henry II of France died as a result of injuries from jousting.

The word knight derives from Old English (Anglo-Saxon) cniht, meaning page boy or servant, which in turn was likely derived from German Knecht, which also meant boy or servant. The first knights were cavaliers (men who fought on horseback) sworn (by an oath called fealty) to the personal service of their liege-lord or king. In European languages other than English, the words used for "knight" relate to riding horses. For instance, in most Germanic languages knights are called Ritter or ridder (literally "rider"), in French they are called chevalier and in Spanish caballero, both of which derive from vulgar Latin caballus, meaning horse. Chivalry, another French word related to cavaliers, was the code of honor for knights, and chivalry entered the English language through a popular medieval French story called The Song of Roland, which was a heroic tale about the knights who served under Charlemagne.

21. They were started training at age 8 or 9 as a squire and by the time they were 15 they were a page and then at 21 became a knight.

If you didn't follow the code of chivalry, you might have your lady love slam the door in your face.

The code of chivalry was not a legal code. It was about virtue, honor, and courtly love. It was not produced by governments or the Church, but by troubadours and minstrels. Its greatest advocates were people like Eleanor of Aquitaine, who was notorious for running "courts of love," which might or might not have existed in reality, but certainly existed in poetry. The power of the code of chivalry lay in its popularity and appeal to the ideals it represented.

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They never ended, there is still a society now. But very secret.

Knights were drawn from the nobility, not the peasantry.

The Middle Ages lasted from the 5th century to the 15th century. During most of this period, there were no cannons. Cannons were introduced to Europe during the High Middle Ages, probably about the middle of the 13th century. They were used at the Battle of Crecy, and elsewhere, during the Late Middle Ages.

Because knights were noblemen, descending from rich families of nobles. They had firm education in both life skills and warfare skills, which the poor could not afford back then.

The poor however could still become knights sometimes. It wasn't unusual for a knight to take up a poor peasant as his apprentice and teach him the ways of their life.

Joan of Arc is probably the most famous example of a poor individual rising to the rank of knight and then leader of the French army, despite being a woman too (women warriors were not generally allowed back then).

The Knights Templar were also mostly composed of monks who were trained to fight. Monks choose to live a life of poverty.

Poor people who could fight, were too poor to become knights but didn't want to join the army, could become mercenaries, offering their fighting skills to the highest bidder. During the Hundred Years War between France and England, both sides hired mercenaries to fight alongside their knights and armies.

A promise to defend the weak, be courteous to all women, be loyal to their king, and to serve God at all times

1. If you were a woman you were not allowed out of the house alone

2. You were not allowed to wear undergarnets outside your house

3. As a sign of reaspect, men had to walk around before a fight topless

There were elements of the code of chivalry that pertained specifically to treatment of women. These include the ideas that women should be honored and protected. They also said that people without power should be defended and that knights should always be charitable. Derived from the code was also the idea of courtly love. What the effect the code had, however, is more a matter of conjecture than of record.

the Barons gave land to the knights. and the knights gave land to serfs

Usually their noble steed, which is a Horse.

At the beginning of the Middle Ages a knight was originally a person of noble birth who was trained in a range of weapons, horsemanship and chivalry. A Knights Armor in the Middle Ages was extremely expensive to produce. It had to be tailor-made to fit the Knight exactly or the Knight ran the risk of an ill-fitting suit of armor hampering him in battle. In the early Middle Ages a horse played an extremely important part in the life of a knight. A knight would own several horses which were built for different duties. The Courser was the most sought after and expensive warhorse, but the more common warhorses were the Destriers. The wealthy noblemen who became mounted knights were worth the equivalent of ten foot soldiers. This changed with the emergence of feudalism. A successful soldier could become wealthy and knighthood conferred regardless of his background.

Knights would most commonly trade military service for land known as fiefs from their sprawling estates.

Many people would do what people do today without technology. People would often play music, congregate with friends, play games etc.

The blade was forged from steel - an iron alloy containing a small percentage (around 0.5%) of carbon, which allows the springiness and harness for blades.

the cross and pommel were made from steel or bronze, sometimes with gilding or similar decoration.

the hilt was normally made from hardwood - beech or ash woods were common, and then covered with a thin peice of leather. some hilts were made from more exotic materials - black horn, ivory, or were wrapped in spirals of silver or gold wire.

To protect soldiers during war and crusades

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At about 7 years old a noble boy went to train with a knight and spent his life in training until at 21 years old he became a knight.

They had tournaments like we have contests. Skill games and the prizes were money, honor, or slaves.