Since then, he's donned a fair bit of knightly armour, and found his cavalry racing over the hills.
For Bill Gates KBE (only British citizens can take the honorific "Sir") combines knightly philanthropy on an unprecedented scale with a long and impressive combat record.
Chivalry, the knightly class of feudal times.
After Xenophon except for a 14th-century treatise by Ibn Hudhayl, an Arab of Granada, Spain, and a 15th-century book on knightly combat by Edward, king of Portugal apparently little notable literature on riding was produced until Grisone published his Gli ordini di cavalcare ("The Orders of Riding") in 1550.
The earliest knightly plate armour appeared shortly after 1200 in the form of thin plates worn beneath the gambeson.
Aristocratic and knightly versifiers such as Charles, duc d'Orléans (captured at Agincourt in 1415), his "jailer" William de la Pole, duke of Suffolk, and Sir Richard Ros (translator of Alain Chartier's influential La Belle Dame sans merci) were widely read and imitated among the gentry and in bourgeois circles well into the 16th century.
Guidons were borne by leaders in battle who were of no more than knightly rank and so not entitled to display a banner.
The older regions of the Reich, moreover, had not only peasants but also men of the knightly class to spare soldiers who needed fiefs and lordships to uphold their rank.
C. 1180 Bavaria c. 1250 Neidhart von Reuenthal, (born c. 1180, Bavaria [Germany] died c. 1250) late medieval German knightly poet who, in the period of the decline of the courtly love lyric, introduced a new genre called höfische Dorfpoesie ("courtly village poetry").
From the late 15th century through the first decades of the 16th century, Landsknechte enjoyed elevated status, bargaining power, and a knightly honour unusual for foot soldiers.
