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Pages in category "Medieval English knights" The following 145 pages are in this category, out of 145 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. A.
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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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]
Knights of the Middle Ages. During the High Middle Ages , knighthood was considered a class of lower nobility . The main article for this category is Knight .
Medieval English knights (145 P) Pages in category "English knights" The following 200 pages are in this category, out of approximately 705 total.
The origins of the lance lie in the retinues of medieval knights (Chaucer's Knight in the Canterbury Tales, with his son the Squire and his archer Yeoman, has similarities to a lance). 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.
But the word never appears in the Paston Letters, where there are many references to hats, hoods and bonnets for men. As with all aspects of medieval costume, there are many contemporary images of clothing, and many mentions of names for clothing in contemporary documents, but definitively matching the names to the styles in the images is ...