![]() ![]() George's Chapel at Windsor Castle which still exists today. So he created two tournament teams of 13 knights each, headquartered in St. Logically, of course, this wouldn't work out. King Edward III had the desire of creating a modern Camelot, and wanted to set up a round table consisting of 300 knights. Churches were often the victims of the knights' looting, so they began stating that the code of chivalry should list priorities for the knight faith, lord, women, widows, and orphans (in that order). Any group of men chosen for their ability to beat things and not much else tends to have discipline problems, though, so a code of conduct was necessary to set in place. His followers, called 'cnihts' gained land and property in exchange for military service. William the Bastard (later known as William the Conqueror) conquered England in 1066. Two large armed bodies of ‘commoners and persons of the lowest grade from Kent and Essex’1 burst through the gates of the City of London and wreaked havoc. Terry begins by explaining that the common perception of the knight may in fact be historically inaccurate. ![]()
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