Usually the temptress is the daughter or wife of a lord to whom the knight owes respect, and the knight is tested to see whether or not he will remain chaste in trying circumstances.
Scutage was a form of medieval taxation; all knights and nobles owed military service to the Crown in return for their lands, which theoretically belonged to the king, but many preferred to avoid this service and offer money instead; the Crown often used the cash to pay for mercenaries.
Knight was involved with the Vegas brawl as well, which sent him to prison until 2001, owing to a probation violation.
After Knight's death, in 1887, the hospital board appointed Gibney as surgeon-in-chief [ 12], a position he held until 1925 when, owing to failing health, he stepped down.
DE: I really owe the Mystic Knights to Rick, my brother.
Half a century later, scutage (the payment of money in lieu of serving as a knight), prompted the appearance of landless knights, the "bachelery of England," who would undertake the service owed to the barons by the subtenants.
Scutage, also called shield money, French écuage, (scutage from Latin scutum, "shield"), in feudal law, payment made by a knight to commute the military service that he owed his lord.
That Sony would stake its summer on an unusually alienated superhero — even the Batman of "The Dark Knight" does not sleep on a bus bench — owes much to its enduring relationship with Mr. Smith.
It owes its romantic name to Harry Hotspur, the medieval knight from the family that provided earls and dukes of Northumberland, who owned the land on which the club started.
Manorialism, the organisation of peasants into villages that owed rent and labour services to the nobles, and feudalism, the political structure whereby knights and lower-status nobles owed military service to their overlords in return for the right to rent from lands and manors, were two of the ways society was organised in the High Middle Ages.
