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The Swedish heroine Blenda advises the women of Värend to fight off the Danish army in a painting by August Malström (1860). The female warrior samurai Hangaku Gozen in a woodblock print by Yoshitoshi (c. 1885). The peasant Joan of Arc (Jeanne d'Arc) led the French army to important victories in the Hundred Years' War. The only direct ...
These knighthoods for women made their first appearance in 1600, and have been less numerous than traditional knighthoods reserved for men. [1] Though many kingdoms, such as Great Britain or the Netherlands, allow both men and women to be invested with the same orders of knighthood, orders in other kingdoms were exclusive for men. Several of ...
Bradamante, a female Christian knight in the service of Charlemagne, is the sister of Rinaldo and the daughter of Amon, duke of Dordognes. [4] She falls in love with a Saracen warrior named Ruggiero but refuses to marry unless he converts from Islam.
A Central European order in which female members receive the rank of Dame is the Order of Saint George. [5] Since there is no female equivalent to a Knight Bachelor, women are always appointed to an order of chivalry. [6] Women who are appointed to the Order of the Garter or the Order of the Thistle are given the title of Lady rather than Dame. [7]
Male members are known as Knights Companion, whilst female members are known as Ladies Companion. The Order can also include supernumerary members (members of the British royal family and foreign monarchs), known as "Royal" and "Stranger" Knights and Ladies (Companion), respectively. The Sovereign alone grants membership to the Order, meaning ...
The term Shield-maiden is a calque of the Old Norse: skjaldmær.Since Old Norse has no word that directly translates to warrior, but rather drengr, rekkr and seggr can all refer to male warrior and bragnar can mean warriors, it is problematic to say that the term meant female warrior to Old Norse speakers.
This is a non-diffusing subcategory of Category:Fictional knights. It includes fictional knights that can also be found in the parent category, or in diffusing subcategories of the parent. Fictional Dame ; female knights or practitioners of chivalry .
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