File - Louise McCutcheon
... • However, by the 13th century only those of noble birth were admitted to the knighthood. ...
... • However, by the 13th century only those of noble birth were admitted to the knighthood. ...
Chivalry - White Plains Public Schools
... Their warhorses played a key military role. By the 11th century, Western Europe was a battleground of warring nobles vying for power. To defend their territories, feudal lords raised private armies of knights. In exchange for military service, feudal lords used their most abundant resource – land. T ...
... Their warhorses played a key military role. By the 11th century, Western Europe was a battleground of warring nobles vying for power. To defend their territories, feudal lords raised private armies of knights. In exchange for military service, feudal lords used their most abundant resource – land. T ...
Samurai vs. Knight
... gradually perfected, until it became a living fortress for the knight. A Medieval Knights Armour was vital on the Battlefields of the Middle Ages. The Knights Armour provided essential body protection from the various weapons which were used in battle including the twohanded sword, bow and arrows, c ...
... gradually perfected, until it became a living fortress for the knight. A Medieval Knights Armour was vital on the Battlefields of the Middle Ages. The Knights Armour provided essential body protection from the various weapons which were used in battle including the twohanded sword, bow and arrows, c ...
`No weapon could bite him` – Magic weapons and armour
... too) from the 3rd to the 11th centuries at least. Some of these are the names of the man who made the blade such as the numerous Ulfberht swords. This is still an important tradition in the vein of figures like Weyland the Smith. Other blades seem to have owner’s name inscribed. There are makers’ ma ...
... too) from the 3rd to the 11th centuries at least. Some of these are the names of the man who made the blade such as the numerous Ulfberht swords. This is still an important tradition in the vein of figures like Weyland the Smith. Other blades seem to have owner’s name inscribed. There are makers’ ma ...
Man-at-arms
Man-at-arms was a term used from the High Medieval to Renaissance periods to describe a soldier, almost always a professional warrior in the sense of being well-trained in the use of arms, who served as a fully armoured heavy cavalryman. It could refer to knights or noblemen, and to members of their retinues or to mercenaries in companies under captains. Such men could serve for pay or through a feudal obligation. The terms knight and man-at-arms are often used interchangeably, but while all knights equipped for war certainly were men-at-arms, not all men-at-arms were knights.
