Knight

=Knights=



=__Feudalism__= ==After the fall of the Roman Empire, feudalism emerged as a unifying system to restore order to Europe. In the feudalism pyramid, the monarch granted land to nobles in exchange for service. The Nobles/Lords created a knights system to support them when the king called for their service in battle. Women that married knights were granted the title of Lady. ([|Wikipedia.com])==

=__Knight's weapons__=

The knight's weapons are the long sword used for a sword mostly used with two hands but is
==sometimes used with one hand and is usually used for offensive purposes. The Falchions is a sword that is a one handed sword and is a reminiscent of a Persian Scimitar. The broad sword is a short two sided sword. An arming sword a single handed sword mostly used by knights. Battle axes are mostly used for combat and could penetrate armour with ease.([|Medieval Weapons)]==

=__Knight's armour__=

==Knights mostly wore thick leather and chain-mail shirts. Most of the armour weighed about 60 pounds. Under their armour they wore linen shirts, and pants. The amour usually also came with some type of stuffing to put on the upper body by the chestpiece being grass or linen to protect the upper body from more attacks and to prevent bruising to the upper body.([|Medieval Armour])== = =

=__Different orders of knights__= ==Some of the other orders of knights, the Templar Knights which were a religious group that fell to The Pope Clement V and King Phillip IV of France.([|Templar Knights]) Another order of knights, Sovereign Military Order of Malta which was a Roman Catholic Military order. It has been continuous since 1099 and is now based in Rome. They have 13,000 knights and about 80,000 volunteers in 120 countries.([|Sovereign Military Order of Malta])== =__Knight's Religion__=

==The Templar Knights religion Catholic and was a follower of Solomon. The Crusades were a group of wars usually fought between two orders of knights that were different religion. The knights of Malta were followers of the Roman Church. The knight's religion varied on the order of knight that you were inducted into and would be Roman Catholic unless you were a Muslim in Arabia.==

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