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Knights and Chivalry: A Historical Quiz

Test your knowledge on the history of knights, chivalry, and related orders with this engaging quiz.

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1 Other orders were established in the ________, under the influence of the orders in the Holy Land and the Crusader movement of the Reconquista:

2 The Franco-British legend of King Arthur was popularised throughout Europe in the Middle Ages by ________ in his Historia Regum Britanniae ("History of the Kings of Britain"), written in the 1130s.

3 the ________, founded by Philip III, Duke of Burgundy in 1430

4 ________ established about 1100

5 the Order of the Elephant, which may have been first founded by ________, but was founded in its current form by King Christian V in 1693

6 Knights are generally armigerous (bearing a ________), and indeed they played an essential role in the development of heraldry.

7 After the Crusades, the military orders became idealized and romanticized, resulting in the late medieval notion of chivalry, as reflected in the ________ romances of the time.

8 ________, a similar class in Middle Eastern history

9 ________, a similar class in Indian history

10 the Order of the Garter, founded by ________ around 1348

💡 Interesting Facts

  • most knights of the Middle Ages wore chausses as leg protection.
  • in the anonymous Breton lai Melion, one of King Arthur's knights was transformed into a werewolf by his wife using a magic ring before she ran off with another man to Ireland.
  • the 14th-century life-size stone effigies of a knight and his wife in St Margaret's Church, Ifield (pictured), England, have been said to have an "inimitable sideways sway".
  • the trouvère Andrieu Contredit d'Arras joined a Crusade in 1239 as a knight and minstrel.
  • thirty knights of Josselin Castle (pictured) defeated the same number from Ploërmel at the Battle of the Thirty.
  • the Guglers, mercenary knights invading Switzerland in 1375, were so named because of their headwear.
  • in the Battle of Neopatras, a Byzantine army of about 30,000 was surprised and defeated by a force of 300–500 Latin knights.
  • Sten Rudholm is a member of the Swedish Academy and today the only living Swedish non-royal knight of the Order of the Seraphim.
  • Götz von Berlichingen, a knight of the Holy Roman Empire, wore a prosthetic hand made of iron after losing his hand in the siege of Landshut in 1508.
  • Vice Admiral Sir James Willis was the last head of the Royal Australian Navy to be knighted.
  • ministeriales formed the core of the knightly class in the 15th-century Germany.
  • Archbishop Robert Knox, father of Lieutenant-General Sir Charles Edmond Knox, founded the Belfast Church Extension Society.
  • Sir Francis Mitchell was the last British knight of the realm to be publicly degraded.
  • British Conservative MP Norman Miscampbell turned down a knighthood because he thought it would prevent him enjoying his retirement from politics.
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