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The Cavalieri Addobbati, also known as Cavalieri di Corredo, were the elite among Italian knights in the Middle Ages. The two names are derived from addobbo, the old name for decoration, and corredo, meaning equipment. [1] These were knights who could afford elaborate clothes, armor and equipment for themselves, their charger and their palfrey. [2]
Stepney Roll [23] is an English occasional roll listing the knights present at Stepney Tournament in 1308. The Great, Parliamentary, or Banneret's Roll, c. 1312, [24] is an English roll consisting of 19 vellum leaves (measuring 6" x 8.25"), which include the names and blazons of 1,110 nobles, bishops, knights and deceased lords of the day. It ...
A gendarme was a heavy cavalryman of noble birth, primarily serving in the French army from the Late Middle Ages to the early modern period.Heirs to the knights of French medieval feudal armies, French gendarmes enjoyed like their forefathers a great reputation and were regarded as the finest European heavy cavalry force [1] until the decline of chivalric ideals largely due to the ever ...
Unknown Family, One of the original 32 Knights of the Round Table Breunor le Noir† Brunor, La Cote Male Taile Knight who wears his murdered father's coat, brother of Dinadan and Daniel Brutus of Britain: Brut, Brute, (Welsh: Bryttys) Historia Brittonum, c. 820 First King of Britain, a Trojan Cador† (Latin: Cadorius)
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Old Noldorin names of the Houses [T 3] Leader Uniforms and emblems Notes The folk of the White Wing: Tuor "These wore wings as it were of swans or gulls upon their helms, and the emblem of the White Wing was upon their shields." [T 4] The bodyguard of Tuor. [T 4] The House of the Mole or the Thlim Doldrin: Maeglin
Knights were to take their meals in silence, eat meat no more than three times per week, and not have physical contact of any kind with women, even members of their own family. A master of the Order was assigned "four horses, and one chaplain-brother, and one clerk with three horses, and one sergeant brother with two horses, and one gentleman ...
When called by the liege, the knight would command men from his fief and possibly those of his liege lord or in this latter's stead. Out of the Frankish concept of knighthood , associated with horsemanship and its arms, a correlation slowly evolved between the signature weapon of this rank, the horseman's lance , and the military value of the rank.