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Portrait of Ulrich from the Codex Manesse. Ulrich von Liechtenstein (ca. 1200 – 26 January 1275) was a German minnesinger, poet and knight of the Middle Ages.He wrote poetry in Middle High German and was author of noted works about how knights and nobles may lead more virtuous lives.
Knights are generally armigerous (bearing a coat of arms), and indeed they played an essential role in the development of heraldry. [50] [51] As heavier armour, including enlarged shields and enclosed helmets, developed in the Middle Ages, the need for marks of identification arose, and with coloured shields and surcoats, coat armoury was born.
Knights of the Middle Ages. During the High Middle Ages , knighthood was considered a class of lower nobility . The main article for this category is Knight .
Download as PDF; Printable version; ... Middle Ages portal; Pages in category "Medieval English knights" The following 146 pages are in this category, out of 146 ...
The original military orders were the Knights Templar, the Knights Hospitaller, the Order of the Holy Sepulchre, the Order of Saint James, the Order of Calatrava, and the Teutonic Knights. They arose in the Middle Ages in association with the Crusades, in the Holy Land, the Baltics, and the Iberian peninsula; their members being dedicated to ...
The Cavalieri Addobbati, also known as Cavalieri di Corredo, were the elite among Italian knights in the Middle Ages. The two names are derived from addobbo, the old name for decoration, and corredo, meaning equipment. [1] These were knights who could afford elaborate clothes, armor and equipment for themselves, their charger and their palfrey. [2]
Medieval historian Richard W. Kaeuper saw chivalry as a central focus in the study of the European Middle Ages that was too often presented as a civilizing and stabilizing influence in the turbulent Middle Ages. On the contrary, Kaueper argues "that in the problem of public order the knights themselves played an ambivalent, problematic role and ...
When called by the liege, the knight would command men from his fief and possibly those of his liege lord or in this latter's stead. Out of the Frankish concept of knighthood , associated with horsemanship and its arms, a correlation slowly evolved between the signature weapon of this rank, the horseman's lance , and the military value of the rank.