MEDIEVAL WARFARE

The Medieval Warrior

Warrior Class (Second Estate)
Knights (English from “Cniht” meaning boy)
Knighthood:  male institution
Joan of Arc, Maid of Orleans
Siege of Compiegne (1429)
Burned at Stake in Rouen (1431)
Romance Words meaning knight (derived from  the word for horse
Chevalier (French) from Cheval
Caballero (Spanish) from Caballo
Cavaliere (Italian) from Cavallo
Ritter (German for knight; from reiten meaning to ride a horse)
Chivalry
Tacitus
Prowess (“Soyez preux)
Changing nature of knighthood
Accolade
Peace of God (Pax dei)
Truce of God (Truga dei)
Crusade (from Latin for cross: crux)
Dowry
Celibacy
Two medieval cults that improved the status of women:
1.  Cult of the Virgin
2.  Cult of Courtly Love
Eleanor of Acquitaine
Louis VII of France
Henry II of England
Eleanor’s sons by Henry:
Richard I "the Lionheart"
John I
Troubadours
Famous love triangle of the Middle Ages:  Arthur, Guineviere, Lancelot
Stages of knighthood
1.  Page
2.  Squire
3.  Knight
Increasing ceremonial for both making and unmaking a knight
Ceremony cutting a disgraced knight off from the world ressembled that applied to the leper