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Knights
From the Court of Arthur and the Round Table to Ivanhoe, from fire-breathing Dragons to Damsels in distress, No, not really, The life and times of a Knight during the Middle Ages. It's not so romantic as you have been lead to believe.
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Why did the knights carry crossbows?
Knights carried crossbows for ranged attacks, providing them with a weapon that could penetrate armor from a distance. This allowed them to engage enemies beyond sword range and provided tactical advantages on the battlefield.
How was guilt determined in the middle ages?
They would wrap the accused up in a rope and toss them into water. If they sank they were innocent but then most people would end up drowning. If they floated they were guilty and would be delt with accordingly. The usual punishments were either being burned at the stake or tied to something and have rocks thrown at them.
Also during the time when the citizens believed that witches existed among them guilt was determined by making the accused person hold a hot iron bar. If the wound didn't start to heal in I believe it was 3 days the person was determined guilty and thus would be burned at the stake.
What did medieval knights wears?
Medieval knights wore armor made of metal plates, chainmail, and leather to protect themselves in battle. They also adorned themselves with helmets, shields, and cloaks to further protect themselves and display their status. Additionally, knights wore tunics and surcoats with their coat of arms displayed to identify themselves on the battlefield.
What rules did the medieval knights follow?
There were many types of rules.
The various countries had their laws, and these were always changing. I have no idea how many countries there were, but there had to be dozens, at the very least. The number of legal codes could go into the hundreds.
Various courts of the nobles had their own rules, administered in various ways, such as the manorial courts. There had to be thousands of these.
The Church had its own rules, and there were quite a lot of them.
Custom formed its own rules, as well.
What did knights eat in the Middle Ages?
Knights ate roasted pig, roasted chicken, a variety of fish, fruits and course baked breads among other things.
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(edit: Removed "turkey" from the list. Turkey is a north American species, and was unknown in Europe in the Middle Ages)
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What is The first job boy has before being a knight?
At seven or eight years old, a boy would be assigned to a knight as a "page," whose duties consisted mostly of upkeep of the knight's equipment and fetching things for him. Around thirteen or fourteen, he would graduate to "squire," which requires him to oversee the knight's various pages as well as assist the knight in dressing for battle or parade.
What was the feudal pyramid in the church during medieval times?
The medieval Church structure was not feudal, so "feudal pyramid" is not an appropriate term to use. Instead it had two distinct branches - "regular" and "secular".
The "regular" hierarchy included all those members of the Church who lived according to a regula, or Rule: monks, nuns and canons. The ladder begins with oblates and conversi(oblates being children given to a monastery and conversi being adults who sought to become members of the community). Then they became novices, then fully-professed monks or nuns. In the monasteries they could achieve positions of minor authority and responsibility, appointments which were called "obedientaries"; these included cellarer, infirmerer, sacrist, kitchener and many more.
Above the monks or nuns would be a brother Prior or Sister Prioress; above that was a Father Abbot or Mother Abbess. These were subject directly to the Pope or to an appointed legate acting on the Pope's behalf.
The "secular" hierarchy included all those clergy who had daily contact with ordinary people. At the bottom were church doorkeepers and churchwardens, then clerks in minor orders (including acolytes and lectors), then clerks in Holy orders, including deacons, priests and bishops. These were all directly subject to an Archbishop, who was in turn subject to the Pope.
To confuse matters, some monks could become priests (this was necessary in order to provide the services and Masses in monasteries); it was much more rare for a priest to become a monk and the Rule of St Benedict infers that this should be avoided if possible.
What was a medieval soldiers Duties?
It was the duty of a Knight to learn how to fight and so serve their Lord according to the Code of Chivalry. The Code of Chivalry dictated that a Knight should be brave and fearless in battle but would also exhibit cultured Knightly qualities showing themselves to be devout, courteous and generous. Weapon practise included enhancing skills in the two-handed sword, battle axe, mace, dagger and lance. A Knight would be expected to guard the Castle and support his liege lord in Medieval warfare.
What would happen to a cowardly knight?
They would be beheaded or be sentenced to a dungeon or some thing like that
What century were the knights in?
Knights were prominent in Europe during the Middle Ages, which spanned from the 5th to the 15th century. The peak of knighthood and chivalry was during the High Middle Ages, roughly from the 11th to the 13th century.
What is the homonym for knight?
The homonym for knight is night. Both words sound the same but have different meanings.
How many knights can a lord have?
The respectful term "lord" refers to anyone at any rank in the feudal system who has vassals of his own - even the poorest knight might have a servant who would call him "lord".
The feudal system is based on all land being owned by the king or by the Church as an institution. The king allowed his earls to hold huge swathes of this land; they in tern allowed barons to hold land from them; the barons might have several lower-ranking knights holding parcels of land from them and all these "lords" (for every one of them was addressed as such) had peasants to do all the manual work who would be given small sections of land in return for rents and services.
So "lord" does not signify any particular level in this hierarchy - every nobleman at every level was a lord.
Each wealthy knight was assessed according to his wealth, property and the total area of lands he held - this was expressed as the "knight's fee". For example in 1135 the important knight Richard Basset held 184.25 carucates of land, which was assessed as being 15 knight's fees. In 1166 the Lincolnshire baron Lambert de Scoteny held 16.25 carucates of land, assessed at 10 knight's fees.
As part of their feudal obligations, Richard Basset was required to provided 15 fully-equipped knights and Lambert de Scoteny 10, or the financial equivalent, if called upon by the king. If they chose to pay money instead of providing the full quota of knights, this was called scutage (shield-money).
So the answer is that a "lord" at any level in the feudal hierarchy was assessed according to his land holdings and he might have 20 or more knight's fees - or just 1 (himself), but these could be just theoretical knights who were represented by a cash payment instead.
What does the quote chivalry is dead mean?
"Chivalry is dead" is a phrase that has become popular in the late 20th & early 21st centuries. The definition of chivalry originated around 1250-1300 A.D. and is a middle-English term. It was defined as: "The sum of the ideal qualifications of a knight, including courtesy, generosity, valor, and dexterity in arms."
Somehow, the term has recently changed meaning and is now regarded as a man's unwritten obligation to be kind, courteous, respectful, gallant and loyal to women. When people (mostly women) say "Chivalry is dead", they're referring to the fact that present day men are not as chivalrous as they used to be or that they are not chivalrous at all anymore. Since there is no way to prove this, it remains simply an opinion of some women.
How did medieval knights change throughout their time?
There were knights in ancient times, and they were heavy cavalry, called cataphracts. In places where they provided their own horses, armor, and weapons, they had to be wealthy enough to afford these, so being a cataphract implied a certain social status.
One important invention of the middle ages was the stirrup. Another was the arched saddle, which made it possible for a mounted man to absorb a certain amount of shock without being thrown off his horse. These two made it possible for a knight to use a lance in a new manner, couched under the arm, as we see in movies where knights are jousting. This combination was sufficiently powerful, that infantry could not stand up to it during the many years it took for tactics and weapons to develop.
When the knight became supreme, which roughly coincided with the Norman Invasion of 1066, kings had reasons to want wealthy young men to enter the knighthood. And so the manorial system was formalized with ceremonies, oaths of allegiance, and provisions of land in exchange for loyalty and service. In this way, the knights were able to afford to continue as knights, ready to defend their kings.
The original armor of the knights was mail, which could be penetrated by arrows. The answer to this was better armor, to which the answer was stronger bows. Both evolved for some time, until plate armor appeared, and with it, the knight in shining armor. The answer to this was the English longbow, with a 200 pound pull, which could penetrate such armor from quite a distance, and could be fired six times in a minute. Plate armor was at about a limit of what could be useful, and the battles of Crecy and Agincourt proved it was not sufficient. The only hope the knights had was to get through the barrage of arrows and reach the archers, because the archers were not good at defending themselves at close range.
At this point, military leaders came to realize that infantry would always defeat mounted knights if it included sufficient archers and men to protect them from. For this purpose, they had the knights dismount and defend the archers with pole arms such as halberds. That done, the mounted knights no longer could dominate infantry.
Archers who could use English longbows were not common. The English had them, but producing them required years of practice, building the needed muscles to use them. The continental kings were too suspicious of their peasants to use them, and relied on crossbows instead, which were inferior in the respect that they took much longer to load. This situation changed when muskets were introduced, as they required very little skill or training, and could be provided to an army of inexperienced peasants rather quickly. Such weapons rendered the armor of the unmounted knight useless, and so the age of the knight ended.
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Why did the director portray events in such a way in the movie A Knight's Tale?
The director portrayed the movie like that to make it more entertaining and more easy to relate to. It is a humorous modern twist to an otherwise ancient concept.
Another example of such portrayals is the 1996 movie "Romeo + Juliet" staring Leonardo DiCaprio and Claire Danes.
Who were the bourgeoisie in the Middle Ages?
The middle class was the bourgeoisie, which consisted mainly of highly skilled craftsmen and also merchants.
MoreThe people of the medieval middle class were those who were not serfs or free tenant farmers, but were also not members of the nobility. As such, they were outside the normal structure of feudalism.They might be shop or business owners, or they might be stewards or lawyers. They included people who had become free and had elevated themselves, and they also included younger sons of the nobility who had not become knights or clerics but had set out to make other kinds of livings.
They existed throughout the entire Middle Ages, but they became more important with the passing of time, and ultimately had much of the wealth of Europe. They ruled the republican cities and communes of Italy and elsewhere, Venice and Genoa being examples, and they ran the Hanseatic League, which had its own military ability and rivaled kingdoms for power. The rise of the middle class is one of the very important stories of the Middle Ages.
What did knights wear and what type of equipment did he have?
knights wore either chain mail or armour, chain mail is a bunch of metal rings that are all attached. Armour is large plates of metal put on to the knight by rope. The equipment he had, most commonly, shields, swords, and daggers.
Does anyone have the rules for jedi knights tcg?
You can get the basic rules on boardgamegeek.
I will check to see if I have rules for either of the 2 expansions. If so I will try to post them to boardgamegeek.
How does William become a knight in the movie a knights tale?
William gets put into the stalks because he supposably wasn't born in royalty, and to be a jousting knight, you had to be royal. as he was put into the stalks, one of the head knights/kings looks into Williams misfortune and announces that William is a decendent of an ancient royal blood line, and crowns him a knight with the name sir William thatcher..my appologized i don't no how to spell Williams last name..this happens towards the end of the movie, right before William goes into his joust against the "black prince"
What were lady's favors that knights wore?
A lady's favor was a token or piece of cloth typically bestowed upon a knight by a lady as a symbol of her favor or affection. Knights would often wear these favors on their armor or shield during tournaments or battles as a symbol of their loyalty and dedication to that specific lady.
What is the goal of the medieval knight?
Money, land, a castle, fame..etc check out "William MarshaL" he pretty much achieved all a common knight could want.
Surely there were knights who's goal was diferent, maybe some wanted just to serve the curch, dedicate life to God or something like that, but they were few.
If you were born from a noble family did you have to become a knight?
No. Not all young noble boys were suited for knighthood. Some started and didn't finish while others didn't start at all.
