Knights are at the bottom of the nobility.
In the army, knights are the elite. Knights are aristocrats in society, although they are only the lowest aristocrats. Therefore, in the Middle Ages, many ordinary people won the title of knight through meritorious military service, which was indeed a rare privilege.
Is to be promoted from a commoner to a knight
How did you become a knight when you traveled back to the Middle Ages? This is the question to be discussed here:
How was the knight tempered?
One of the foundations of becoming a knight is to be born into a noble family and be sent to the home of a Lord or another knight as a waiter when the child is 7 years old. This stage is mainly to learn the etiquette norms and basic rules of knights.
Knights are essentially different from ordinary riders and soldiers who are farmers, priests and craftsmen. Knights have faster and stronger horses, better weapons and equipment, and better combat skills. All these make knights and ordinary soldiers have obvious differences.
No matter the training or equipment of attendants, knights are better than ordinary cavalry.
When the boy 14 years old, he will become a knight's attendant, receiving various combat skills training and chivalry education. A knight's retinue is the retinue of a powerful knight. Whether in wartime or in peacetime, knight attendants always accompany the main knight. In fact, attendants are divided into different grades according to their intimacy with their masters and their responsibilities. Its level is divided into: personal waiter, ceremony waiter, table waiter, reception waiter, catering waiter and so on. The ceremony of a knight's servant becoming a knight's attendant is generally like this: the teenager is brought to the priest by his father, and each person holds a sacred little candle in his hand. The priest prayed and blessed that the sword and belt would be owned by the boy. Later, he wore a sword symbolizing the status of a knight's attendant.
A knight's entourage needs strict training to have the basic qualities of a knight.
Chivalry, which we often hear, originally refers to "equestrian", and has evolved into the overall norm of chivalry since the12nd century, mainly including: protecting the old, the young, women and children, fighting for justice and inequality and evil, loving home and risking their lives to defend the church. It is also summarized as the virtues that a knight should possess, including: humility, honor, sacrifice, sympathy, courage, honesty, spirit and justice. However, in actual history, there are very few people who can really fulfill the norms and virtues of chivalry.
Knights exist as killers.
By the time I reach the age of twenty-one, I have received knight training and knight creed, and I am ready to become a knight. You can become a real knight through the ceremony of knighthood.
Prince Edward of Plantagenet Dynasty, also known as Black Prince Edward.
The procedure of knighthood ceremony is complicated, which can be generally divided into three types. One is secular, and the owners are monarchs and secular nobles, mostly in palaces and castles; One is religious, and the host is a pope, bishop or clergy, usually in a church; One is a mixture of secularism and religion. The host is usually a monarch or a secular aristocrat, and the clergy is one of the religious activities such as prayer mass, either in palaces and castles or in churches.
The knighthood ceremony is something like this.
Before being knighted, the attendants who are ready to accept knighthood should clean themselves first, and then put on white clothes and red robes: white clothes mean that they are clean, and red robes mean that they are always ready to fight bravely and get hurt at any time.
After getting dressed, you should fast for one day and pray to God with your sword in front of the shield. The contents of prayer include asking God to forgive your sins, sanctifying yourself, promising to protect the church, and vowing to "help the weak except the strong". At this time, any attendants who do not agree to be knighted can destroy the shield, and the attendants must defend their shields with swords.
For knights, honor is often more important than life.
In the whole ceremony, the sword-giving ceremony is the most grand and the core ceremony. Candidate knights should fast, bathe, repent, pray and swear, wear armor and helmet, and kick spurs. , and then accept the sword symbolizing the knight's function; The Lord put the sword on the neck or shoulder of the recipient and patted it gently, solemnly stating the basic principles of chivalry. Finally, the new knight showed his martial arts on a Mercedes-Benz horse, stabbed the target with a spear and had an impromptu contest.
These are the vows that the knight will say at the canonization ceremony. The first half is said by the Lord, the bishop or the father of the man who will be posthumously sealed:
Face your enemies, don't be afraid. Be brave and upright, and God will love you. Tell the truth, even if it leads to your death. Protect them. This is your oath. So you remember it. Become a knight!
Strong enemy at present, fearless! Brave and loyal, worthy of God! Geng Zheng said bluntly that he would rather die than surrender! It is natural to protect the weak! This is your oath, remember it! Be a knight!
Here's what the seal said:
I will be kind to the weak. -I will be kind to the weak.
I will face the strong bravely. -I will bravely face the strong enemy.
I will fight all those who have done wrong. -I will fight sinners without reservation.
I will fight for those who can't fight. -I will fight for those who can't fight.
I will help those who ask me for help. -I will help those who need my help.
I won't hurt any women. -I won't hurt women and children.
I will help my knight brother. -I'll help my knight brother.
I will be loyal to my friends. -I will be loyal to my friends.
I will be faithful to love. -I will treat love sincerely.
Knights are not easy-they are both officers and soldiers.
When you finish this ceremony, you will become a knight. Of course, not all knights are nobles at first, and civilians can also be promoted to knights with the help of meritorious military service and the approval of lords. Being a knight means serving the Lord and fighting for him. In return, the knight can get a small piece of fief from the Lord and become a feudal Lord.
Every knight will get a territory and become a feudal Lord.
If there is a rise, there will naturally be a drop, but this kind of thing is extremely rare. 162 1 year, Sir Francis Michel was deprived of his knighthood and detained in Westminster Hall, which shows how serious the situation is. It was a great shame that his spurs were taken back and his sword belt was cut.
When you become a knight, you will have a piece of land and your own people. In medieval Europe, productivity was low and knights were expensive. Knight equipment is mainly independently undertaken. Knights should bring their own equipment, which is based on the so-called exchange of rights and obligations: the Lord gives the manor to the knight, and the knight returns with military service.
Knight's equipment is various and expensive. Take the knight's vital war horse as an example, and its price is staggering. 13 at the end of the year, the price of an ordinary war horse is about 14. A Lord named Grad, the average price of his followers' horses is 48 pounds, while Grad's own seven horses are equivalent to 80 horses. In order to maintain the marching speed and replenish horses lost in battle at any time, knights often have more than one horse. For example, 1002 1000 knight of Count Robert II, everyone has three war horses.
This does not include spears and swords, as well as full-body armor accessories. It is said that according to the productivity level at that time, a knight's equipment was worth 23 cows. This is definitely not a small number in medieval Europe where the level of productivity development is low. Therefore, the size of the knight class in medieval Europe was actually not large.
In addition to the knights under the lords, more knights were active on the stage of medieval Europe in the form of knights. Such as the famous Knights Templar, Teutonic Knights and so on.
It is conceivable that becoming a knight in the Middle Ages was definitely not an easy task. Knights in the real world are not as noble as those in film and television literature.
Knights are more recognized in the second dimension. In the Demonbane world represented by Dungeons and Dragons, knights are often endowed with a powerful aura. I don't know how many friends are intoxicated by the huge worldview of Blizzard World of Warcraft, or fascinated by Middle-earth in The Lord of the Rings. But you can definitely remember the knight image in it.