Knight and Related Topics

Title page of the first Castilian-language translation of Tirant lo Blanc, printed in Valladolid by Diego de Gumiel

Joanot Martorell

Joanot Martorell (c. 1410 – 1465) was a Valencian knight and writer, best-known for authoring the novel Tirant lo Blanch, written in Valencian and published at Valencia in 1490.

The pennon of Sir Henry Percy captured by James Douglas, Earl of Douglas

Sir Henry Percy (20 May 1364 – 21 July 1403), nicknamed Hotspur, was an English knight who fought in several campaigns against the Scots in the northern border and against the French during the Hundred Years' War.

Helmet

Form of protective gear worn to protect the head.

A motocross helmet showing the elongated visor and chin bar

Typical incline skating gear includes skates, knee and elbow pads, wrist guards, and a helmet.

Boar tusk Mycenaean helmet, 14th century BCE

Greek Illyrian type helmet, 4th century BCE

Greek bronze Phrygian helmet, 350 BCE to 300 BCE

alt=Iranian helmet, iron, bronze rivets and gilding.|Iranian, 7th or 8th century AD Spangenhelm

Early 15th century bascinet with hounskull visor

15th-century German frog-mouth helm used in jousting

Ottoman zischagge helmet, mid-16th century

16th century Maximilian style close helmet

Type 90 helmets worn by the Japanese during the Second World War

Vietnam War era Marine squadron VMA-311 flight helmet

Ski helmet (left), paragliding helmet (right)

Aviakit motorcyclist "pudding basin" helmet

Full face and open face motorcycle helmets

As the coat of arms was originally designed to distinguish noble combatants on the battlefield or in a tournament, even while covered in armour, it is not surprising that heraldic elements constantly incorporated the shield and the helmet, these often being the most visible parts of a knight's military equipment.

Falconry

Hunting of wild animals in their natural state and habitat by means of a trained bird of prey.

Indian king, Maharaja Suraj Mal of Bharatpur with a hawk

The medieval poet Konrad von Altstetten shown with his falcon, in the embrace of his lover. From the Codex Manesse.

Three panels depicting hawking in England from various time periods, as reprinted in Joseph Strutt's 1801 book, The Sports and Pastimes of the People of England from the Earliest Period: The middle panel is from a Saxon manuscript dated to the late 10th century – early 11th century, as of 1801 held in the "Cotton Library", showing a Saxon nobleman and his falconer. The top and bottom panels are drawings from a manuscript held, as of 1801, in the Royal Library, dating from the early 14th century, showing parties of both sexes hawking by the waterside; the falconer is frightening the fowl to make them rise and the hawk is in the act of seizing upon one of them.

Icelandic gyrfalcon, 1759, Livrustkammaren

A couple belonging to the Sambal warrior class, documented by the 16th-century Boxer Codex: The female warrior is holding a raptor, which has captured a bird, exemplifying a culture of falconry.

A falconer's red-tailed hawk (Buteo jamaicensis)

A Mongolian man inspects his golden eagle (Aquila chrysaetos) before competing in an eagle hunting contest in northern Mongolia

A brown falcon used for falconry in Tasmania

A saker falcon used for falconry in Qatar

The Shaw Monument, a falconry observation tower in Scotland.

7) Knight: sacre and the sacret

Penguilly l'Haridon: Le Combat des Trente

Combat of the Thirty

Episode in the Breton War of Succession fought to determine who would rule the Duchy of Brittany.

Banner attributed to Breton and French knights at the Combat of the Thirty in 1351, during the Breton civil war

Beaumanoir's knights kneel in prayer before battle. Illustration by J. E. Millais to Tom Taylor's translation of a Breton language ballad in Barzaz Breiz

Combat des Trente: an illumination in the Compillation des cronicques et ystoires des Bretons (1480), of Pierre Le Baud. The two strongholds of Ploërmel and Josselin are fancifully depicted within sight of each other.

According to P.Rault show the Franco-Bretons knights wearing tunics with a black cross while the Anglo-Bretons knights wearing tunics with a red cross.

It was an arranged fight between selected combatants from both sides of the conflict, fought at a site midway between the Breton castles of Josselin and Ploërmel among 30 champions, knights, and squires on each side.

Sipahi

Sipahi were professional cavalrymen deployed by the Seljuks, and later two types of Ottoman cavalry corps, including the fief-holding provincial timarli sipahi, which constituted most of the army, and the regular kapikulu sipahi, palace troops.

Sipahi. Manesson Mallet: Art de la Guerre, 1696

Miniature depicting an Anatolian Timariot, dating to before 1657.

A depiction of Sipahis during the Battle of Vienna

Timarli Sipahis' status resembled that of the knights of medieval Europe.

Cuirass

Piece of armour that is formed of a single or multiple pieces of metal or other rigid material which covers the torso.

An Ancient Greek bronze cuirass, dated between 620 and 580 BC

Indian steel cuirass, 17th to 18th century

M1872 helmet and M1855 cuirass worn by the French Cuirassiers

German helmet and frontal armoured plate for trench warfare, 1916

Japanese cuirass (dō) from the 1600s made from individual large scales (hon iyozane)

The latter portion of the 14th century saw the cuirass gradually come into general use in connection with plate armour for the limbs until, at the close of the century, mail was phased out among the nobles (e.g., knights) except in the camail of the bascinet and at the edge of the hauberk.

Depiction of Chinese swordsman wielding a single-edged sword, from the Dan Dao Fa Xuan, c. 1626

Swordsmanship

Swordsmanship or sword fighting refers to the skills of a swordsman, a person versed in the art of the sword.

The MS I.33 manuscript, dated to ca. 1290, shows fencing with the arming sword and the buckler.

Sabre duel of German students, around 1900, painting by Georg Mühlberg (1863–1925)

1763 fencing print from Domenico Angelo's instruction book. Angelo was instrumental in turning fencing into an athletic sport.

Advertisement for Alfred Hutton's swordsmanship show at the Bath Club.

A Chinese dao and scabbard of the 18th century

Kendo at an agricultural school in Japan around 1920

An excerpt from the Muyedobotongji: mounted double-sword (마상쌍검; 馬上雙劍)

Angampora exponents with swords and bucklers.

As time passed, the spatha evolved into the arming sword, a weapon with a notable cruciform hilt common among knights in the Medieval Age.

Order of the Companions of Honour

Order of the Commonwealth realms.

Lord Tweedsmuir, as Governor General of Canada, wearing the Companion of Honour badge around his neck

The insignia of the order is in the form of an oval medallion, surmounted by a royal crown (but, until recently, surmounted by an imperial crown), and with a rectangular panel within, depicting on it an oak tree, a shield with the Royal Arms of the United Kingdom hanging from one branch, and, on the left, a mounted knight in armour.

Knights of the Round Table

The attributed arms of Agloval de Galles

"Queen Guenever's Peril." Alfred Kappes' illustration for The Boy's King Arthur (1880)

Shared attributed arms of Blamor and Blioberis

Calogrenant at the fountain in the BN MS fr.1433 manuscript of Yvain ou le chevalier au lion (c. 1325)

The attributed arms of "Dodinet le Sauvaige"

The attributed arms of "Herec le fils Lac"

The attributed arms of "Exclabor ly Viescovtiens"

The attributed arms of the Duc de Clerence

Giflet throwing Excalibur into the lake in a 1470 illustration for the 13th-century romance La Mort du roi Arthur

Lancelot stops his half-brother Hector from killing Arthur defeated in battle, as depicted by William Dyce in King Arthur Unhorsed, Spared by Sir Launcelot (1852)

The attributed arms of "Lucam le Bouteillier"

"At last the strange knight smote him to the earth, and gave him such a bugget on the helm as well-night killed him." Lancelot Speed's illustration for The Legends of King Arthur and His Knights, abridged from Malory's Le Morte d'Arthur by James Knowles (1912)

The attributed arms of Morholt d'Irlande

"Sir Segwarides rides after Sir Tristram." F. A. Fraser's illustration for Henry Frith's King Arthur and His Knights of the Round Table (1912)

The attributed arms of Yvain the Bastard

Le Morte d'Arthur scene of Guinevere with some of her unarmed knights before they are ambushed by Maleagant, as depicted in Queen Guinevere's Maying by John Collier

The Knights of the Round Table (Marchogion y Ford Gron, Marghekyon an Moos Krenn, Marc'hegien an Daol Grenn) are the knights of the fellowship of King Arthur in the literary cycle of the Matter of Britain.