In the last blog I posted I talked about The Round Table and one of the stories of it power and told a Little bit about the knights that were able to sit in this blessed table.
Today I’m going to make more emphasize on how in the middle ages people get to be a noble knight and fight for the sake of the kingdom in which they lived.
The knight was one of the three types of warriors in the middle ages together with soldiers and archers. Knights where covered with several covers of armor that make them similar to the tanks in present weaponry. No one could stand one to one with a knight in the battlefield.
There were few ways to become a knight. One of the ways was to be a son of a knight or member of the aristocracy that was sent to be trained specially to be a perfect knight. But this training wasn’t only to increase the skills in weaponry handling, but also in their manners such as reading and writing.
Other ways to become a knight was to be in service of one of them at the age of sixteen. The duties that this prospective knight were supposed to do were to clean the armor and the horse of the knight that you are working for and he as an exchange would teach the kid to handle the sword, throw spears and block with a one-handed shield. The recognition of someone as a knight would be presented to all the nobility of the kingdom and to the knight a sword that represents its courage would be given away.
Nowadays in some countries in Europe such as Poland people still make a tribute for this noble knights that fought centuries ago recreating scenes of the life and specially the battles in castles in their countries. Recently in Poland knight’s tournaments were made because of the holidays. They have a tradition to recreate battles every weekend. People have been hurt in the recreation and tournaments, but they see it as a romantic art according to the BBC news (Easton, http://www.bbc.co.uk).
Easton, Adam. Poland’s medieval love affairs for knights. BBC News, 2011:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-14378984
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