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  2. Chivalry - Wikipedia

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    Konrad von Limpurg as a knight being armed by his lady in the Codex Manesse (early 14th century). Chivalry, or the chivalric language, is an informal and varying code of conduct developed in Europe between 1170 and 1220.

  3. List of stock characters - Wikipedia

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    He is chivalrous, courageous, and skilled in sword fighting and acrobatics as he seeks vengeance on a corrupt villain. In films, the story may be set in the Golden Age of Piracy. D'Artagnan, Zorro, Jack Sparrow (Pirates of the Caribbean), Space Adventure Cobra, Ezio Auditore

  4. Order of chivalry - Wikipedia

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    Alfonso XIII of Spain (left) with his cousin-in-law, the future King George V (right), during his State Visit to the United Kingdom in 1905. Alfonso is wearing the uniform of a general of the British Army, the Royal Victorian Chain, the sash and star of the Garter, the cross of the Order of Charles III, the neck badge of the Golden Fleece, and the badge of the four Spanish military orders.

  5. Quixotism - Wikipedia

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    Illustration by Gustave Doré depicting the famous windmill scene of Don Quixote, in which the hero fights with windmills, which he imagines to be giants.. Quixotism (/ k w ɪ k ˈ s ɒ t ɪ z əm / or / k iː ˈ h oʊ t ɪ z əm /; adj. quixotic) is impracticality in pursuit of ideals, especially those ideals manifested by rash, lofty and romantic ideas or extravagantly chivalrous action. [1]

  6. Domnei - Wikipedia

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    Domnei or donnoi is an Old Provençal term meaning the attitude of chivalrous devotion of a knight to his Lady, which was mainly a non-physical and non-marital relationship. "The Accolade" by Edmund Blair Leighton, painted in 1901, clearly expresses the concept of Domnei

  7. Gentleman - Wikipedia

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    ) is a term for a chivalrous, courteous, or honorable man. [1] Originally, gentleman was the lowest rank of the landed gentry of England, ranking below an esquire and above a yeoman ; by definition, the rank of gentleman comprised the younger sons of the younger sons of peers, and the younger sons of a baronet , a knight , and an esquire, in ...

  8. Order of the Golden Chains - Wikipedia

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    These boys, in order to acquire to the golden chain of the order, had to fight every two years on a knight tournament, single combat "up to life or death" . This courtly ideal, in which knights protecting vulnerable women, was characteristic of the culture and chivalrous self-image of the late Middle Ages. In the peculiar conditions, we see ...

  9. HMS Chivalrous - Wikipedia

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    HMS Chivalrous was one of thirty-two C-class destroyers built for the Royal Navy during the Second World War, a member of the eight-ship Ch sub-class. Commissioned in 1946, she was built as a flotilla leader with additional accommodation for staff officers.