He is then confronted by a group of knights who initially mistake him for a deadite, but they are quickly distracted when a real one actually shows up.

She then uses her power as Etzel's wife to take a bloody revenge in which not only Hagen and Gunther but all Burgundian knights find their death at festivities to which she and Etzel had invited them.

Stephen then agreed to a truce proposed by his brother, Henry of Blois ; the full details of the truce are not known, but the results were that Stephen first released Matilda from the siege and then allowed her and her household of knights to be escorted to the south-west, where they were reunited with Robert of Gloucester.

He wins Jocelyn's heart by first agreeing to lose a tournament for her ( in contrast to the countless knights who promise to win tournaments in her name ), and then after finding himself in a terrible deficit, but not eliminated, to win the tournament in her name.

Many of the stones from these ruins were then used by the knights to fortify their castle of Bodrum ; they also recovered bas-reliefs with which they decorated the new building.

Suleiman the Magnificent conquered the base of the knights on the island of Rhodes, who then relocated first briefly to Sicily and later permanently to Malta, leaving the Castle and Bodrum to the Ottoman Empire.

It suffered much from the ravages of the Thirty Years ' War, but the episcopal palace, then destroyed, was subsequently rebuilt, and in 1852 was converted by Louis Napoleon into a place of residence for widows of knights of the Legion of Honour.

It is said that the Normans, probably led by one of William's knights named Belasius ( Belsar ), then bribed the monks of the island to reveal a safe route across the marshes, resulting in Ely's capture.

Stephen then agreed to a truce proposed by his brother, Henry of Blois ; the full details of the truce are not known, but the results were that Stephen first released Matilda from the siege and then allowed her and her household of knights to be escorted to the south-west, where they were reunited with Robert of Gloucester.

During the crusade, knights and peasants from many nations of Western Europe travelled over land and by sea, first to Constantinople and then on towards Jerusalem, as crusaders ; the peasants greatly outnumbered the knights.

The second and third waves of castle building were led by the major magnates, and then by the more junior knights on their new estates.

He passes a pavilion of Ettare ’ s knights, asleep, and then a pavilion of her maidens, and then comes to a pavilion where he finds Ettare in Gawain ’ s arms.

Some of the knights converted to Lutheranism in order to retain their property and then married into the Prussian nobility, while others returned to the Holy Roman Empire and remained Catholic.

According to Le Morte D ' Arthur, after Lancelot's death, the eight knights of his kindred that had joined him in living a life of penitence return to France, take care of the affairs of their lands, then, acting on Lancelot's request of them, go to the Holy Land and fight against the Turks.

The knights proclaim the sausage-seller the winner of the argument and Cleon then rushes off to the Boule to denounce them all on a trumped-up charge of treason.

The Drac was then supposed to have gone on to kill over three thousand knights and villagers, being perhaps one of the craftiest of all French dragons.

With his Norman knights as reward he then took possession of Glamorgan, and " the French came into Dyfed and Ceredigion, which they have still retained, and fortified the castles, and seized upon all the land of the Britons.

Vimes then recruits the Watch into his own private army regiment, reasoning that, as an official noble, he is entitled to do so by law and by Lord Rust's command, with the group remaining independent as knights legally fall under command of the king or his duly-appointed representatives, neither of which exist in Ankh-Morpork.

These three knights then come across Sir Perceval ’ s sister who leads them to the grail ship.

Henry's knights won a decisive victory, capturing Robert and imprisoning him in England and then Wales until Robert's death in Cardiff Castle.

They are interrupted by a trumpet and the entrance of knights from another kingdom who want to deliver Isabella.

John Searle has used the theory of speech acts to explore the nature of social / institutional reality, so as to describe such aspects of social reality which he instances under the rubrics of “ marriage, property, hiring, firing, war, revolutions, cocktail parties, governments, meetings, unions, parliaments, corporations, laws, restaurants, vacations, lawyers, professors, doctors, medieval knights, and taxes, for example ”.

As knights they could prefix " Sir " to their forenames, but the form was never used in speech, as they were referred to by their peerage dignities.

Henry long and faithfully supported his older cousin, Emperor Frederick I ( Barbarossa ), in his attempts to solidify his hold on the Imperial Crown and his repeated wars with the cities of Lombardy and the Popes, several times turning the tide of battle in Frederick's favor with his fierce Saxon knights.

The personalities and appearances of the Leafe Knights are changed, with the older knights given more mature appearances.

Fidalgo began to be emphasized because, in its sense of someone who had inherited nobility, it differentiated the older knights from the growing bourgeoisie that was continuing to gain access to the knighthood through their accomplishments in the service of the state.

William ( with a fleet of 200 ships ) landed in Epirus with a strong force ( 80, 000 men including 5, 000 knights ), and marched as far as Thessalonica, which he took and pillaged ruthlessly ( 7, 000 Greeks died ).

Other characters in attendance are Cedric, Aethelstane, Lady Rowena, Isaac of York, his daughter Rebecca, Robin of Locksley and his men, Prince John's advisor Waldemar Fitzurse, and numerous Norman knights.

An early 13th-century drawing by Matthew Paris showing contemporary warfare, including the use of castle s, crossbow men and Knight | mounted knights

While other young men could become knights, in theory, it was nearly impossible for them to achieve that goal, especially for those from the lowest class.

Higher-quality armour of steel would have given considerably greater protection, which accords well with the experience of Oxford's men against the elite French vanguard at Poitiers in 1356, and des Ursin's statement that the French knights of the first ranks at Agincourt, which included some of the most important ( and thus best-equipped ) nobles, remained comparatively unhurt by the English arrows.

Later in the Middle Ages light cavalry would also include sergeants who were men who had trained as knights but could not afford the costs associated with the title.

Under the command of the Scottish nobles, the Scottish knights withdrew, and Edward's men began to attack the schiltrons.

* June 15 – King John of England is forced to put his seal on the Magna Carta, outlining the rights of landowning men ( nobles and knights ) and restricting the king's power.

* 1278 – August 26 – Kings Rudolph I of Germany and Ladislaus IV of Hungary defeat King Otakar II of Bohemia in the Battle of Marchfield, a match of over 80, 000 men and the largest battle of knights in the Middle Ages.

On receiving a favorable reply from the Holy See, Gediminas issued circular letters, dated 25 January 1325, to the principal Hansa towns, offering a free access into his domains to men of every order and profession from nobles and knights to tillers of the soil.

He organized a grand army of 100, 000 men ( including 20, 000 knights ) and set out on the overland route to the Holy Land.

However, some historians believe that this is an exaggeration and that the true figure might be closer to 15, 000 men, including 3, 000 knights.

* August 26 – Battle of Marchfield: Kings Rudolph I of Germany and Ladislaus IV of Hungary defeat King Otakar II of Bohemia in a match of over 80, 000 men and the largest battle of knights in the Middle Ages.

Historians have not determined the size of the force with any certainty, but Edward probably brought with him around 225 knights and all together less than 1000 men.

It was gathered from the whole of Scotland: knights and nobles, freemen and tenants, town dwellers and traders: men who could afford the arms and armour required.

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.

The English force consisted of around 2, 700 – 2, 800 men-at-arms, heavily armed and armored men that included the English King and various nobles with their retinues as well as lower-ranking knights and other contingents.

The classes of fighting men in the Middle Ages, from the knights ( including knights bachelor ), squires, yeomen, to pages, were often young servants ; their relative statuses changed over time.

An entourage of 15 men were made knights, including one of Mary's half brothers Sir Robert Stewart of Strathdon, Robert Drummond of Carnock, and James Stewart of Doune Castle.

While often stereotyped as chivalry-besotten blockheads, Philip and his men had in fact carried out a successful Fabian strategy against the debt-plagued Edward, and resisted the chivalric blandishments of single combat or a combat of two hundred knights that he offered.

He marched north to with a force of 20 knights and 300 men and reached Downpatrick four days later.

They also had more knights and men than the English.

The solemn rejoicing of the wedding was celebrated at Valenciennes with an abundance of knights and ladies and men of whatever status.

At this point the army in the Kingdom of Jerusalem consisted of only 6, 000 men, including 1, 000 knights but it was augmented with 5, 000 turcopoles.