The Story Of Lord Richard

In the beginning of the movie, The Knight’s Tale, William Thatcher and his two friends, Wat and Roland, start off as three ordinary squires. Right before a jousting match their knight that they serve dies; with their knight dead there is no one else of royalty to ride in his place. However, with the threat of forfeiting approaching, William decides to ride in his knight’s place, risking being caught and put to prison or worse. Once Will was done getting

William (Sir Ulrich) will show nobility of a true knight throughout the film. William follows the creed of a knight which is truth, honor and loyalty. Throughout the move he will always remain truthful to those around him. He is humble with his victories, always retaining the honor of victory but never broasting. The ending of the film is a prime example of a true knight, where William goes to the extreme. William finds out that Adhemar told officials of him not being a true knight. He even with his followers around him and his love there does not listen to what they say, which is to run. Knowing what will happen he still goes through to going to the stadium and being arrested by the twelve dozen men. This was true character, knowing what was to come but still facing it.

As the English Actor, Tom Hiddleston, stated, “Never stop. Never stop fighting. Never stop dreaming.” Young peasant, William, decides to pretend to be a knight with both his friends Roland and Wat and later on the found naked Chaucer to win money since their life style isn’t convenient. As a final point, despite some minor inaccurate information, the movie A Knight’s Tale is historically accurate based on factual evidence that was displayed.

In The Canterbury Tales, the knight is a modern type of knight. Although the description of this character’s personality is vague, it is not hard for modern day people to visualize him. In the prologue, it mentions that the knight follows the five basic ideals that a good knight should possess: “chivalry, Truth, honour, generousness, and courtesy” (Chaucer 4). The knight fought in the Crusades, wars in which Europeans traveled by sea to non-Christian places and tried to convert people’s culture by brute force, which was considered noble and brave hearted. From his love of the five basics ideals previously mentioned to his impressive military career, the knight is a perfect example of how a knight should be represented. Indirectly, the tale is discussing both the knight and the idea of how a knight should be. The tale does not describe much about the knight as in physical appearances and characteristics of this knight but as the tale comes to an end, the book starts to unfold how this story connects with this character. The tale itself is not important yet it’s what the tale represents that is important, such as pursuing courtly love, risking death, and respecting women. All of the previously mentioned attributes are ones that knights should possess to achieve expected standards.

Chivalry and courtly love were two major parts of being a knight in the medieval time period. Chivalry was the code that knights lived by and consisted of bravery, unselfishness, and other traits of being a good protector. Courtly love is the love between a knight and a woman that he was attracted to. In the movie, A Knight’s Tale, William has courtly love with Jocelyn, but so does Adhemar. They fight for her heart so that she can see which one she wants to love and adore. William conveyed more knightly traits than Adhemar through his love for Jocelyn, showing mercy when he was jousting the prince, and playing the role of a knight.

The historian Richard Kaeuper notes that prowess being crucial to honor may have contributed as much to the ‘problem of violence as it provided a solution’. Therefore, this appears to convey why the concept of chivalry began to be associated with violence and warfare as knights, in the pursuit of honor, became reliant on violence and battle to prove their aptitude. This idea is supported by a medieval knight Sir John Chandos, who stated that men brought up for martial calling ‘cannot live without war and do not know how to’. Maurice Keen argues that ‘chivalry was quintessentially bellicose’ as it presented those who fought has having a ‘pinnacle of honor’. As a result, the use of force by knights as a way of denoting their gallantry led to the belief that violence was intrinsic to the notion of chivalry.

King Richard the First, also known as Richard the Lionhearted was the king of England from 1189 to 1199. His life was filled with surprising evince and interesting stories. He did not like the weather in England and only spent a little of his time in England, when he was king. Some interesting things that happened in his life time is he was imprisoned as king and he joined the Tired Crusade. He had a good relationship with the church in the time of his reign.

The chivalric code involved the training and passing of skills to the knights for them to acquire a particular behavior in their service for the kings and queens who they worked under especially in the medieval era.1 The skills that knights were to acquire involved bravery, honesty, generosity and unquestioning service to their Lords. Keen affirms that the code was strict and involved activities aimed at ensuring

In the book Castle In The Attic the main character William must be brave, caring, courageous, and persistent on his journey. William in the book starts out being mad at his nanny Mrs. Phillips because after 10 years of caring for him she decided to move back to England. She gives William a castle for a going away present. William loves the castle but still wantes Mrs. Phillips to stay. The castle came with one knight, but he was no ordinary figurine. When William came up to the attic that night the knight came to life. In shock, William drops him and runs down the attic stairs. A little later he goes back up and greets the knight, Sir Simon, and the knight tells him his story about a wizard named Alastor and how he saved Sir Simon’s father’s

To what extent was William Marshall’s life as a knight different from other knights of the time? Invariably it was not that much different than those of his peers until his later life. The one thing that set him apart from other knights was his fierce dedication to loyalty.

The Squire is an extremely vain individual, taking pains to improve his appearance. His superfluous appareis clean and bright and his hair has "locks as curly as if they had been pressed"(120). This greed for wealth and beauty definitely does not abide by the code of chivalry and is unnecessary for his knighthood. The Knight, more concerned with gallantrynever partakes in such nonsense. He is by far the most chivalrous and heroic.The Knight's motivation is based on chivalry and religion, contrasting to the Squire who merely wants to impress the ladies.

deprived of his standing in any other way, nor will we proceed with force against him or send others to do so except by the lawful judgment of his equals or by the law of the land.” Quoted above are clauses 39 & 40, two clauses that the English and Americans still use in law.

King Arthur’s court at Camelot has rule that the knights should live by and it is the chivalrous code. Chivalry is defined as the sum of the ideal qualifications of a knight, including courtesy, generosity, valor, and dexterity in arms. To put the definition in better terms is that the more manly you are in battle, the more you have to treat your lady or wife as a princess. The fighting spirit, bravery and courtesy are important to a man’s character and cowardice is looked down upon as a severe defect.

William Marshall is considered by many to be the epitome of knighthood and chivalry as well as being an outstanding ambassador for England during the turbulent twelfth and thirteenth centuries. From a virtually obscure beginning, William evolves into one of the most dominant stately figures of the time in England. During his brilliant military and political career, William served as knight for the courts of Kings Henry II, Richard (the Lion-hearted), and John.

Loyalty is a huge part of the movie, A Knight's Tale. During the Middle Ages, people were very dependent on one another, even though they are separated by class and position. In the movie, William pretended to be a knight, even though he was born into poverty. He took his masters’ armour, who died. Even though, this can cause for him and the others for them to be arrested and killed, he continued.