In the 2001 movie A Knight's Tale, the protagonist William Thatcher ( played by Heath Ledger ) poses as a noble and competes in his first jousting tournament at Rouen.

President William Howard Taft's cow, Pauline, poses in front of the Navy Building, which is known today as the Old Executive Office Building | Eisenhower Executive Office Building.

Because the 16th Earl held land from the Crown by knight service, after his father's death on 3 August 1562, Oxford became a royal ward of the 29-year-old Queen, and was placed in the household of Sir William Cecil, her Secretary of State and chief advisor.

Numerous barons were subjected to John's malevolentia, even including William Marshal, a famous knight and baron normally held up as a model of utter loyalty.

At the end of the " Tale of King Arthur ," being Books I-IV in the printing by William Caxton, is written: " For this was written by a knight prisoner Thomas Malleorre, that God send him good recovery.

Sir William Wallace ( Medieval Gaelic: Uilliam Uallas ; modern Scottish Gaelic: Uilleam Uallas ; Norman French: William le Waleys ; ; died 23 August 1305 ) was a Scottish knight and landowner who became one of the main leaders during the Wars of Scottish Independence.

* William Marshal, knight and statesman.

* William Marshal, 1st Earl of Pembroke, knight and statesman

* William Marshal, described as " the greatest knight that ever lived ," is knighted in England.

Paul Doherty, drawing extensively on the Fieschi Letter of the 1340s, has argued that Edward in fact escaped from Berkeley Castle with the help of William Ockle, a knight whom Doherty argues subsequently pretended to be Edward in disguise around Europe, using the name " William the Welshman " to draw attention away from the real Edward himself.

He was born in Gloucestershire, at Pauntley in the Forest of Dean, although his family originated from Kinver in Staffordshire, England, where his grandfather Sir William de Whittington was a knight at arms.

William IX of Aquitaine portrayed as a knight, who first composed poetry on returning from the Crusade of 1101

The film follows the story of William Thatcher, a peasant masquerading as a knight, along with his companions in the world of medieval jousting.

Along the way to his first tournament in Rouen, the trio encounters Geoffrey Chaucer ( Paul Bettany ), who agrees to forge patents of nobility to allow William to compete as a knight under the assumed name of " Sir Ulrich von Liechtenstein " from Gelderland.

William recalls leaving his father to squire for Sir Ector and learn to become a knight hoping to " change his stars.

* Heath Ledger as William Thatcher, a squire who aspires to become a knight and jousting champion.

* Nick Brimble as Sir Ector, the knight who had William, Roland, and Wat as squires

It is known that William received a wound to his thigh and that someone in his captor's household took pity on the young knight.

We can see this from his appearances in the History of William Marshal, the biography of the knight assigned to him as a tutor in 1170, and who became his tournament team leader until 1182.

The depiction in the Bayeux Tapestry shows a knight carring a banner who rides up to Duke William and points excitedly with his finger towards the rear of the Norman advance.

In August 1189, at the age of 43, William Marshal, held by many to be the greatest knight in Christendom, was given the hand of Isabel de Clare, and, in 1199, was created the 1st Earl of Pembroke by King John.

A century or so later, in the hands of writers such as Jean Froissart, Miguel Cervantes and William Shakespeare, the fictional knight Tirant lo Blanch and the real-life condottieri John Hawkwood would be juxtaposed against the fantastical Don Quixote and the carousing Sir John Falstaff.

This little fortress was probably the work of William Revel, a knight of Bernard de Neufmarché who is usually referred to as Bernard Newmarch, and may later have been the seat for the manor or commote of Melinog.

Trained as a Norman knight, and participating in the campaigns of William I.

In Sabrina, Billy Wilder, unable to secure Cary Grant, chose Bogart for the role of the older, conservative brother who competes with his younger playboy sibling ( William Holden ) for the affection of the Cinderella-like Sabrina ( Audrey Hepburn ).

This game is no longer played, as William E. Tolman now competes annually against its fellow Pawtucket public high school Charles E. Shea, rather than against St. Raphael Academy, a private Catholic high school.

Malvern competes for the Heyward Cup with five other schools: Germantown Academy, Haverford School, Chestnut Hill Academy, William Penn Charter, and Episcopal Academy.

William Alexander Lester III ( born February 6, 1961 ) is a racing driver who competes in the Grand Touring category in the Rolex Sports Car Series for Autohaus Motorsports.

Between 1174, when Henry was reconciled to his father, and 1182, William led his master's Anglo-Norman team in all the major tournaments of the day, especially frequenting the huge international meetings in Picardy.

He went on to win another bronze medal and a silver in the Asian Games basketball tournaments and hold the distinction of being the only Filipino player to win the William Jones Cup championships twice, once as an amateur in 1985 and once as a professional in 1998.

In 1927 William Tregonning Hooper ( Bras y Golon ) agreed with the Breton Dr. Cottonac of Quimper that there should be annual wrestling tournaments in which both Cornish and Breton wrestlers would compete.

McCulloch is a regular pundit for William Hill ( bookmaker ) and can be heard in their shops previewing Snooker tournaments and as a regular in-studio guest on their In-Play Radio service.

Thus at the same time that William Henry Harrison was preparing to pacify the aborigines of Indiana Territory and winning fame at the battle of Tippecanoe, Anglo-Saxon settlement made a great leap into the center of the North American continent to the west of the American agricultural frontier.

It celebrated winning the award on May 15, 1974 when the Governor of Michigan, William Milliken, and many dignitaries came to town.

William Wyler also matched this record upon winning his third Oscar in 1959.

An eminent example of Victorian civic architecture, the building was constructed between 1882 and 1888 to a competition winning design by Glaswegian architect William Young ( originally from the nearby town of Paisley ).

He was the youngest son of Irish portraitist John Butler Yeats, and the brother of the Nobel Prize winning poet William Butler Yeats.

* 1967 – Vietnam War: American General William Westmoreland tells news reporters: " I am absolutely certain that whereas in 1965 the enemy was winning, today he is certainly losing.

For example William Lyon Mackenzie King, after losing his seat in the same general election that his party won, briefly " governed from the hallway " before winning a by-election a few weeks later.

Michael Fassbender, a German-Irish actor, will play Edwin Epps, the slave's last master, while the first master-planter and Baptist preacher William Ford-will be played by British Olivier-award winning actor Benedict Cumberbatch.

In 1951, Leigh and Olivier performed two plays about Cleopatra, William Shakespeare's Antony and Cleopatra and George Bernard Shaw's Caesar and Cleopatra, alternating the play each night and winning good reviews.

* November 21 – Vietnam War: United States General William Westmoreland tells news reporters: " I am absolutely certain that whereas in 1965 the enemy was winning, today he is certainly losing.

While Oldsmobile only sold 725 Limiteds in its three years of production, the car is best remembered for winning a race against the famed 20th Century Limited train, an event immortalized in the painting " Setting the Pace " by William Hardner Foster.

With Jocelyn and William's father in attendance, William bellows his true name, delivering a crushing blow and knocking Adhemar to the ground, winning the tournament.

Other well-known alumni: syndicated columnist and Politico editor Roger Simon, reclusive media mogul Fred Eychaner, environmental journalist William Allen, investigative reporter Seymour Hersh, New York Times columnist David Brooks, author of Bobos in Paradise, pop artist Claes Oldenburg, consumer advocate David Horowitz, columnist Mike Royko, and Pulitzer Prize winning editorial cartoonist Herbert Lawrence Block, ( commonly known as Herblock ).

During his career he fought Oscar De La Hoya winning the Lineal and World Boxing Council welterweight champion, Fernando Vargas in a unification fight where with sensei Fabio Martella he won the International Boxing Federation's light middleweight title, and William Joppy for the World Boxing Association's middleweight championship.

Roger William Corman ( born April 5, 1926 ) is an Academy Award winning American film producer, director and actor.

Picnic is a 1955 Cinemascope production, the film adapted for the screen by Daniel Taradash from William Inge ’ s 1953 Pulitzer Prize winning play.

The Pulitzer Prize winning television critic, William Henry III wrote for the museum's booklet: Kovacs was more than another wide-eyed, self-ingratiating clown.

In 1972, the " Book World " section was introduced with Pulitzer Prize winning critic William McPherson as its first editor.

* William Eckhardt Tony winning stage designer

Past residents include Robert Olen Butler, Pulitzer Prize winning novelist, William Cullen Bryant, poet and journalist, Alfred Lansing, author of Endurance: Shackleton's Incredible Voyage, and Natalie Portman.

Despite the controversy, the novel became a runaway critical and financial success, eventually winning the 1968 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction as well as the William Dean Howells Medal in 1970.

He was an ardent theological student, a man of warm feelings and considerable mental powers, and he soon came prominently forward as the leading apologist of the new doctrine, winning his spurs in a controversy with one William Mitchell.

After winning several ACTRA Awards, Clarkson ended her job with The Fifth Estate in 1983 and was subsequently appointed by the Lieutenant Governor of Ontario, John Black Aird, on the advice of his Premier, William Davis, as the Agent General for Ontario in France, acting in this role as a cultural liaison between the province and the country, as well as promoting Ontario in several other European states.

It was to be William Wilkins's winning design for the public competition for Downing College, Cambridge that announced the Greek style was to be the dominant idiom in architecture.