Made of gold-plated britannium on a black metal base, it is 13. 5 in ( 34 cm ) tall, weighs 8. 5 lb ( 3. 85 kg ) and depicts a knight rendered in Art Deco style holding a crusader's sword standing on a reel of film with five spokes.

The knight is the only piece that can leap over other pieces.

When a pawn advances to the eighth rank, as a part of the move it is promoted and must be exchanged for the player's choice of queen, rook, bishop, or knight of the same color.

In a Knights of Zodiac movie, there is an Eris ' ghost knight, represented by the Southern Cross.

In western Europe there emerged what is considered the " ultimate " heavy cavalry, the knight.

The Old Castilian language was also used to show the higher class that came with being a knight errant .- This last phrase is not completely accurate-In Don Quixote there are basically 2 different Castillian: Old Castillian is only spoken by Don Quixote, while the rest of the roles speak a much modern version of Spanish, pretty much understandable by the actual reader.

both Stained Quixote and Quixote from La Mancha ) is a hilarious name for a spotless knight.

If a knight is promoted or forced to retreat, its active status does not change.

As the likelihood of having the barbarian move closer to Catan is very high, a variant in common usage is that the robber ( and with Seafarers, the pirate ) does not move until the first barbarian attack, nor can a knight move the robber before that point.

In the two Henry IV plays, he is a companion to Prince Hal, the future King Henry V. A fat, vain, boastful, and cowardly knight, Falstaff leads the apparently wayward Prince Hal into trouble, and is ultimately repudiated after Hal becomes king.

The German word for English " knight " is Ritter, the Dutch ridder, the Swedish riddare, which is the cognate of English " rider "-but which carries vast social implications absent from the English word.

Galahad, illegitimate son of Lancelot and Elaine, the world's greatest knight and the Grail Bearer at the castle of Corbenic, is destined to achieve the Grail, his spiritual purity making him a greater warrior than even his illustrious father.

His offer is made on the surmise that the palmer was in reality a knight, York having observed his knight's chain and spurs ( a fact that he mentions to the palmer ).

On the first day of the tournament, a bout of individual jousting, a mysterious masked knight, identifying himself only as " Desdichado " ( which is described in the book as Spanish for the " Disinherited One ", though actually meaning " Unfortunate "), makes his appearance and manages to defeat some of the best Norman lances, including Bois-Guilbert, Maurice de Bracy, a leader of a group of " Free Companions " ( mercenary knights ), and the baron Reginald Front-de-Boeuf.

The masked knight declines to reveal himself despite Prince John's request, but is nevertheless declared the champion of the day and is permitted to choose the Queen of the Tournament.

Desdichado's side is soon hard pressed and he himself beset by multiple foes, when a knight who had until then taken no part in the battle, thus earning the sobriquet Le Noir Faineant ( or the Black Sluggard ), rides to Desdichado's rescue.

Cedric, who had not been present at Locksley's carousal, is ill-disposed towards the knight upon learning his true identity.

Wilfred of Ivanhoe, the titular character, is a knight and son of Cedric the Saxon.

Since the Early Modern period, the title of knight is purely honorific, usually bestowed by a monarch, as in the British honours system, often for non-military service to the country.

English " knight " and German and Dutch Knecht are clearly related ( though pronounced differently ), and originally had also a similar meaning, denoting a person rather low in the social scale.

* White knight ( business ), a corporation, private company, or person that intends to help a firm

Sir Galahad is then brought to King Arthur's court at Camelot during Pentecost, where he is accompanied by a very old knight who immediately leads him over to the Round Table and unveils his seat at the Siege Perilous, an unused chair that has been kept vacant for the sole person who will accomplish the quest of the Holy Grail.

The story begins as a first person narrative in Warwick Castle, where a man details his recollection of a tale told to by an " interested stranger " who is personified as a knight through his simple language and familiarity with ancient armor.

After healing Sir Urry, Lancelot wept as a " chylde that had bene beatyn ," ( 644 ) because he recognized his own failure as a person and as a knight.

Littleton then proceeds to notice the important features of tenure by knight ’ s service with its distinguishing incidents of the right of wardship of the lands and person of the infant heir or heiress, and the right of disposing of the ward in marriage.

In medieval tournaments a kipper was a person employed by a knight, usually a vassal of the knight such as a slave, serf, or peasant.

It included a squire or person aspiring to knighthood, an attendant on a knight, and was later an honour that could be conferred by the Crown.

Contrary to a popular myth, a person who is a knight or of noble birth does not have the right to confer titles of nobility, knighthood or orders of chivalry upon others.

Møller was a knight of the Danish Order of the Elephant ; he was, during his membership of the order, the only person who was neither royal nor a head of state to hold this honour ( the nuclear physicist Niels Bohr and founder of the East Asiatic Company Hans Niels Andersen held the same order ), which granted him the title His Excellency.

In business, a white knight, or " friendly investor ," may be a corporation or a person that intends to help another firm.

* William Harris ( Tudor person ) ( 1556 – 1616 ), English knight, landowner and incorporator in the third Virginia Company of London

He was named a knight of the Legion of Honor, and later became an officer, and was twice decorated by French President Poincarré in person.

In medieval times, such a person was a young and unmarried son or daughter of a high-ranking knight or nobleman.

In medieval times such a person was a young and unmarried son or daughter of a high ranking knight or nobleman.

* " The Honourable ", when the untitled person is a son or daughter of a hereditary knight, baron, viscount or count ;

The epic tells the story of Sir Hudibras, a knight errant who is described dramatically and with laudatory praise that is so thickly applied as to be absurd, and the conceited and arrogant person is visible beneath.

He certainly returned to Lisbon by the beginning of April 1484, when John II ennobled him, made him a cavaleiro ( knight ) of his household ( he was already an escudeiro or esquire in the same ), and granted him an annuity and a coat of arms ( April 8, 1484 and April 14, 1484 ).

She became Lady Olivier ; and, after their divorce, per the style granted the divorced wife of a knight, she became socially known as Vivien, Lady Olivier.

Duke John of Normandy was solemnly granted the arms of a knight in front of a prestigious assistance bringing together the kings of Luxembourg and Navarre, and the dukes of Burgundy, Lorraine and the Brabant.

To those few who conformed to his view of a modern-day knight ( e. g., his favourites Kutusov, Arakcheyev, Rostopchin ) he granted more serfs during the five years of his reign than his mother had presented to her lovers during her thirty-four years.

The city was founded by Hirzo, a knight of King Ottokar II of Bohemia and was granted its municipal charter in 1265.

Henry de Keighley, a Lancashire knight, was granted a charter to hold a market in Keighley on 17 October 1305 by King Edward I.

Alan FitzFlaad ( d. c1114 ), a Breton knight, was granted the feudal barony of Oswestry by King Henry I who, soon after his accession, invited Alan to England with other Breton friends, and gave him forfeited lands in Norfolk and Shropshire, including some which had previously belonged to Ernoulf de Hesdin ( killed at Antioch while on crusade ) and Robert de Belleme.

The grant, for knight-service of one knight, was in exchange for the manor of Coxwell, Berkshire, which had been previously granted to him.

The element " Grays " comes from Henry de Grai, a descendant of the Norman knight Anchetil de Greye, who was granted the manor of Grays Thurrock 1195 by Richard I.

Trim and the surrounding lands were granted to Hugh de Lacy, a Norman knight.

* Patrician is an Italian title of nobility ranking between that of a knight and an esquire ; it was only granted in the Italian aristocratic city republics

The Norman knight Odo de Barri was granted the lands of Manorbier, Penally and Begelly in gratitude for his military help in conquering Pembrokeshire after 1003.

Duke John of Normandy ( as King John II was known as a prince ) was solemnly granted the arms of a knight in front of a prestigious assistance bringing together the kings of Luxembourg and Navarre, and the dukes of Burgundy, Lorraine and the Brabant.

This will was proved at London before the worshipful Sir Richard Raines, knight, Doctor of Laws, Master Keeper or Commissary of the Prerogative Court of Canterbury, lawfully constituted, on the twenty third day of the month of June in the year of our Lord one thousand six hundred and ninety seven, by the oath of Mary Bathurst, relict and executrix named in the said will, to whom administration was granted of all and singular the goods, rights and credits of the said deceased, sworn on the holy Gospel of God to well and faithfully administer the same.

According to the legend, the coat of arms was granted to certain knight named Syrokomla of Abdank coat of arms after he won a duel with a pagan Prussian warrior in 1331 during the reign of Ladislaus the Short.

The title of knight banneret, with the right to display the private banner, came to be granted for distinguished service in the field.

The estate began in 1185, when Richard Talbot, a knight who accompanied Henry II to Ireland in 1174, was granted the " lands and harbour of Malahide ".

One Richard Fitz Scrob ( or Fitz Scrope ), apparently a Norman knight, was granted lands by Edward the Confessor before the Norman Conquest, in Herefordshire, Worcestershire and Shropshire as recorded in the Domesday Book.

The feudal baronial title tends to be used when a landed family is not in possession of any United Kingdom peerage title of higher rank, subsequently granted, or has been created a knight of the realm.

In 1387, King John I donated Alvito to knight Diogo Lobo in exchange for his services in the decisive Battle of Aljubarrota ( 1385 ), and in 1475 the title of Baron was granted to the rulers of Alvito.

After the victory, the prince inquired after Sir James, who was brought to the royal tent, where Edward told him he had been the bravest knight on his side, and granted him an annuity of five hundred marks.

Hatfield means a ' heathery space in the forest '; Peverel refers to William Peverel, the Norman knight granted lands in the area by William the Conqueror after the Norman invasion of 1066.

These returns further prove that lands had already been granted for the service of a fraction of a knight, such service being in practice already commuted for a proportionate money payment ; and they show that the total number of knights with which land held by military service was charged was not, as was formerly supposed, sixty thousand, but, probably, somewhere between five and six thousand.