Knighthood Essay

Ever since l was 7, I was sent away to a nobleman’s household to be a page the place where I learnt how to ride a horse and how to behave. I was trained for 14 years. When I was 14 I was apprenticed to a knight whom l served as a squire and was taught how to handle weapons and even went in battles with knights assisting me. There were 2 other ways of becoming knight besides being a boy with nobel birth. The first way was earning the right on the battlefield. If a soldier fought bravely during a battle or war, he may become a knight by the king, a lord, or even another knight. The second way was to become an apprentice to a knight and earn the title through hard work and training. We knights were usually violent, sometimes cruel and often educated. …show more content…
The world comes from chevalier, the french word for ‘knight’. There were many remains of the ideas and roles of Knight’s in medieval times. Many things come to mind when we think of a knight and the role of the knight has changed over the past centuries. There are many schools for the study of martial arts inspired by the medieval knights. Several “fight manuals” from medieval times still exist, and schools use them to develop training curricular. In many schools an instructor can confer knighthood upon a student after a long time of study and testing. One of the most important skills of a knight was his combat ability while mounted on a horse. The idea of this skill is now used in today’s society. Many people look up to us because of our bravery. The skills that were used to ride a horse took us many years to master. Without us, there wouldn’t be movies including knights, a art gallery filled with Knight and horse armours for entertainment purposes and heaps more. In the same way that some Eastern martial arts recognise the attainment of black belt status as being ready to learn the achievement of knighthood should indicate the beginning go a path not a