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Age of Chivalry
Chapter 13 Section 3
New Technology• Knights: Warriors on
Horseback • Leather saddles &
stirrups – through contact with Muslims in Battle of Tours
• Knights on horseback became most important part of army
Knight’s Role
• Fought to defend the territory of their feudal lord
• 1. Rewarded with land (fiefs)• 2.Weapons & armor were $$$ - had to
afford to be a knight• Knight’s main obligation was to
serve in battle• 1. Only 40 days of the year in combat!
Knighthood & Chivalry
• Code of Chivalry – ideals demanded of a knight
• 1. Be loyal to his feudal lord, obey God, and be nice to the ladies
• 2. Protected the weak & poor• 3. Brave, courteous
Age of Chivalry?
• Some took it seriously, others didn’t. It tended to break down especially towards the later Middle Ages.
• The Middle Ages wasn’t a time of fairy tale castles and noble, honorable knights. It was a nasty time of political intrigue, bloody wars, and brutish men exercising their limited power in order to gain more power.
• JUST LIKE ANY OTHER TIME!!
Training
The prospective knight went through three stages:
1) Page- Younger years (age 7) - Assistant to squire & Lord
2) Squire (age 14)- Was Robin to a knight’s
Batman- Took care of knight’s
equipment
3) Knight (age 21)- When he becomes a full-fledged
soldier who officially enters into a feudal arrangement with a lord.
TournamentsMock Battles
Literature of Chivalry
• Themes = idealized castle life, glorified knighthood, knight’s undying love for lady
• The Song of Roland – famous epic poem• about Charlemagne’s knights fighting Muslims
– Praised French soldiers killed in battle• Troubadours – traveling poet-musicians• Eleanor of Aquitaine
Eleanor of Aquitaine• Most celebrated woman
of the age is Eleanor of Aquitaine (1122–1204)
• Becomes Queen of England
• Eleanor’s son, Richard the Lion-Hearted, also wrote songs and poems
Roles of Women• Status of Women• According to the Church and feudal
society, women are inferior to men!!
• Noblewomen
• 1. Can inherit land 2. defend castle 3. send knights to war on lord’s request
• Usually confined to activities of the home or convent
• Peasant Women
• 1. Most labor in home and field
• 2. bear children 3. provide for family
• Poor, powerless, do household tasks at young age
Enough about chivalry…What about the weapons and warfare?
Plate Armor
Shields
Triangular shields meant to repel blows.
“Coat of Arms” – symbols to represent family, manor
Crossbows & Longbows
• Mantlet
Siege Weaponspg. 366
• Siege Tower
• Battering Ram
• Trebuchet