Medieval knights were first and foremost warriors, whose heyday was the late Middle Ages: the twelfth through the fourteenth centuries. Dominating the medieval battlefield during these years, they fought from horseback, wore bodycovering armor, and used...

. Since 1066, the English word “knight” has been used as the equivalent of the Latin miles and the French cheval(i)er. Miles had been used from before 500 to ca. 950 to designate a soldier or military retainer of any sort, but after 950,...

A knight in modern times would normally be addressed as ‘Sir’+first name. Shakespearean knights are often addressed as ‘knight’, ‘my dear knight’, ‘sweet knight’, etc. There are thirteen instances of such...

Knight is the English term for a social position originating in the Middle Ages. In the Commonwealth of Nations, knighthood is a non-heritable form of gentility, but is not nobility. In the High and Late Middle Ages, the principal duty of a knight was...