However, Godfrey died in July, when Dagobert was accompanying a campaign against Jaffa under Bohemund's nephew, Tancred, Prince of Galilee, and the Jerusalem knights offered the lordship to Baldwin, who was Godfrey's brother.

Bohemund's knights had quickly mounted but their sporadic counterattacks were unable to deter the Turks.

At Bohemund's suggestion, the crusaders sent all their cavalry ( numbering about 700 knights ) to meet the advancing army while the infantry remained behind in case Antioch's defenders decided to attack.

On December 30, reinforcements from Duqaq were defeated by Bohemund's foraging party, and retreated to Homs.

Immediately after Christmas, the Latin Patriarch of Jerusalem, Arnulf of Chocques, was deposed on the ground that his election had been uncanonical, and with Bohemund's support, Dagobert was elected in his place.

Through the day small groups of reinforcements ( also from Raymond, and Hugh, as well as Godfrey ) arrived, some killed by the Turks, others fighting to reach Bohemund's camp.

Godfrey and Raymond had separated from the vanguard at Leuce, and the Turkish army attacked at dawn, taking Bohemund's army ( not expecting such a swift attack ) entirely by surprise, shooting arrows into the camp.

Since negotiations with Hugh III of Burgundy had reached an impasse, Baldwin IV hastily arranged Sibylla's marriage to Guy of Lusignan, younger brother of the Constable, Amalric, to block Raymond and Bohemund's plans.

Bohemund's troops built a counterfort outside Saint Paul's Gate in Antioch's northeast wall to protect themselves against missiles from Antioch's defenders.

Tatikios accompanied the Norman ( under Guiscard's son Bohemund of Taranto, Bohemund's nephew Tancred, and Robert of Normandy ) and Flemish ( under Robert of Flanders ) contingents.

Baldwin left Antioch under the regency of Joscelin, ruling for Alice and Bohemund's young daughter Constance.

Though described as a powerful warrior ( he took the cities of Benevento, Canosa, Capua, and Lucera by siege ), Roger Borsa was never able to check Bohemund's power or bring him under his control.

In addition to large numbers of noncombatants, Bohemund's force probably numbered about 10, 000, the majority on foot.

On July 1, Bohemund's force was surrounded outside Dorylaeum by Kilij Arslan.

Immediately after the principality was handed over to him, Bohemund was married to Alice ; the marriage was likely part of the negotiations prior to Bohemund's arrival.

The knights for Warwickshire in this parliament, which ended its session on February 9, were Fulke Greville ( the poet ) and William Combe of Warwick, as Fulke Greville and Edward Greville had been in 1593.

According to M. Forrest, the French knights were so encumbered by their armour that they were exhausted even before the start of the battle.

His final campaigns were against Mequinenza ( 1133 ) and Fraga ( 1134 ), where García Ramírez, the future king of Navarre, and a mere 500 other knights fought with him.

Jean Froissart states as follows: " Now will I name some of the principal lords and knights ( men-at-arms ) that were there with the prince: the earl of Warwick, the earl of Suffolk, the earl of Salisbury, the earl of Oxford, the lord Raynold Cobham, the lord Spencer, the lord James Audley, the lord Peter his brother, the lord Berkeley, the lord Basset, the lord Warin, the lord Delaware, the lord Manne, the lord Willoughby, the lord Bartholomew de Burghersh, the lord of Felton, the lord Richard of Pembroke, the lord Stephen of Cosington, the lord Bradetane and other Englishmen ; and of Gascon there was the lord of Pommiers, the lord of Languiran, the captal of Buch, the lord John of Caumont, the lord de Lesparre, the lord of Rauzan, the lord of Condon, the lord of Montferrand, the lord of Landiras, the lord Soudic of Latrau and other ( men-at-arms ) that I cannot name ; and of Hainowes the lord Eustace d ' Aubrecicourt, the lord John of Ghistelles, and two other strangers, the lord Daniel Pasele and the lord Denis of Amposta, a fortress in Catalonia ".

Froissart describes, with less specificity in this passage, some of the nobles that were assembled at, or just prior to the Battle: "... the Englishmen were coasted by certain expert knights of France, who always made report to the king what the Englishmen did.

From 1265, two burgesses from each borough were summoned to the Parliament of England, alongside two knights from each county.

Knights bachelor were either poor vassals who could not afford to take the field under their own banner, or knights too young to support the responsibility and dignity of knights banneret.

Philip's army contained about 2, 000 knights ( 750 were from the royal demesne ) and 2, 000 mounted sergeants with the rest being infantry.

Suetonius states that a total of 35 senators and 300 knights were executed for offenses during Claudius ' reign.

In August 1564 Oxford was among 17 nobles, knights and esquires in the Queen's entourage who were awarded the honorary degree of Master of Arts by the University of Cambridge, and was awarded another by Oxford University on a Royal progress in 1566.

The instances of recorded first aid were provided by religious knights, such as the Knights Hospitaller, formed in the 11th century, providing care to pilgrims and knights, and training other knights in how to treat common battlefield injuries.

In Fear and Trembling, Kierkegaard writes that: "... to be able to fall down in such a way that the same second it looks as if one were standing and walking, to transform the leap of life into a walk, absolutely to express the sublime and the pedestrian -- that only these knights of faith can do -- this is the one and only prodigy.

Other honors include his ivory statue as head of procession of the Circus Games ; his posts of priest of Augustus and Augur were to be filled by members of the imperial family ; knights of Rome gave his name to a block of seats in a theatre in Rome.

Sir William McKell ( 1947 – 53 ) was knighted during his term of office, but all the other governors-general until 1989 were already either peers or knights ; the only Australian peer was Lord Casey ( 1965 – 69 ).

Men who were not knights wore arming doublets, probably because the garment suggested status and chivalry.

Templar knights, in their distinctive white mantles with a red cross, were among the most skilled fighting units of the Crusades.

Templars were often the advance force in key battles of the Crusades, as the heavily armoured knights on their warhorses would set out to charge at the enemy, in an attempt to break opposition lines.

No precise numbers exist, but it is estimated that at the Order's peak there were between 15, 000 and 20, 000 Templars, of whom about a tenth were actual knights.

Beneath the knights in the Order and drawn from lower social strata were the sergeants.

Seeking forgiveness, the assassins travelled to Rome and were ordered by the Pope to serve as knights in the Holy Lands for a period of fourteen years.

The entries are ordered approximately by the social status of the poets, starting with the Holy Roman Emperor Henry VI, Kings Conradin and Wenceslaus II, down through dukes, counts and knights, to the commoners.

From Malta the knights resumed their seaborne attacks of Ottoman shipping, and before long the Sultan Suleyman the Magnificent ordered a final attack on the Order.

The king had promised the two knights immunity, but Margaret gainsaid him and ordered their executions by decapitation.

The emperor, who was in great strains on his side, recalled his knights, telling them that he would not flee, and ordered his men to stay by his side.

Christopher ordered the attack on the rebel camp on 8 June 1441 and despite fighting ferociously the rebels could not overcome the heavily armed knights.

Notably, Henry ordered much of his force of knights to dismount, as he did himself: unusual for Norman battle tactics, infantry played a decisive role.

Afterwards Saladin ordered the execution of the captured Templar and Hospitaller knights, such was the importance of the two orders in defending the Crusader states.

Prior to the battle, the Flemish militia had either been ordered to take no prisoners or did not care for the military custom of asking for a ransom for captured knights or nobles ;

The knights were ordered to withdraw and Edward prepared to employ the tactics that the Earl of Warwick had used to defeat the Welsh spearmen at the Battle of Maes Moydog in 1295.

He ordered one of his knights, Dobek, to capture him.

To protect the unarmoured foot and noncombatants, Bohemond ordered his knights to dismount and form a defensive line, and with some trouble gathered the foot soldiers and the noncombatants into the centre of the camp ; the women acted as water-carriers throughout the battle.

The knights were released on parole to gather ransom, and the town's people who were prepared to swear allegiance to Henry were allowed to remain, while the rest were ordered to depart.

The Muslims feigned a retreat, a common tactic which should not have fooled Gerard ; nevertheless, he ordered a charge, against Roger's advice, and the knights were separated from the foot-soldiers.