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Understanding Chivalry

Understanding Chivalry . Chivalry . A complex set of ideals, demanded that a knight fight bravely in defense of three masters. 1. Earthly feudal lord 2. Heavenly lord 3. Chosen Lady . Tournaments . Mock battles Combined recreation with combat training.

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Understanding Chivalry

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  1. Understanding Chivalry

  2. Chivalry • A complex set of ideals, demanded that a knight fight bravely in defense of three masters. • 1. Earthly feudal lord • 2. Heavenly lord • 3. Chosen Lady

  3. Tournaments • Mock battles • Combined recreation with combat training. • Two armies of knights charged each other.

  4. Troubadours • Traveling poet-musicians at the castles and courts of Europe. • They composed short verses and short stories about the joys and sorrows of romantic love.

  5. Knights • Warriors on horseback. • Valuable in combat during the reign of Charlemagne's grandfather. • Role: nobles created private armies, rewarded them with land(fiefs). Helping knights could afford to pay for costly weapons, armor, and warhorses. • Technology: • Saddles and stirrups

  6. Knights Training • Sons of nobles began training for knighthood at an early age and learned the code of Chivalry. • Acted as a squire at 14= servant of a knight.

  7. Women’s Role in Feudal Society • Noblewomen • Could inherit an estate • Send knights to war • Could act as military commander • Peasant women • Endless labor around the home/field • Bore children/ cared for families • Church influence status of medieval women.

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