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K&N; Intake Install - 2010 Camaro SS
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Web Rides TV heads down to the K&N headquarters in Riverside, CA with a 2010 Chevy Camaro SS. Join Kerryann De La Cruz as she shows you just how easy installing a K&N high performance intake really is....
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How To Clean & Service A K&N; Air Filter
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This video is to show every one the steps to cleaning and oiling your K&N air filters the right way with out damaging them. www.knfilters.com...
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How to clean and oil a K&N; / S&B; air filter.
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How to properly maintain and oil a K&N / S&B reusable air filter. To find out how much oil to apply to your K&N filter visit www.knfilters.com Search for your vehicle or K&N Part Number. This will take you to the filter spec...
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06 Civic Si K&N; Typhoon SRI V2
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Quick run on 81 to hear the K&N Typhoon V2 SRI for the si....
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K&N; 77 Series Performance Cold Air Intake system on Silverado
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A before and after look at a new K&N 77 series intake system on a 2000 Chevrolet 1500 4.8L V8. If you are looking to buy this for your truck, I recommend it 100%. Increased gas millage and increased horsepower (both noticeably different...
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K&N; Air Filter Demonstration! (Using K&N; Demo Kit NOT OPEN To The Public!)
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This is a demo of the K&N air filter... I use it on my Maserati and I talk about why they are so good... Then I finish up with the K&N Demonstration... Remember, the public doesn't have access to the tools I use! AutomotiveGroup...
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How to clean a K&N; air filter
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How to clean a K&N air filter this method is the same no matter how your filter looks like remember: you must oil the filter. the oil is used to capture dirt and grease....
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2003 Nissan Almera - K&N; airfilter
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2003 Nissan Almera N16 Sport 1.8L K&N FilterCharger 57-0429 Toyo Tires Proxes 4 205/50R16 0-100km Test Run Approx. 9sec...
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K&N; Cotton Air Filter Cleaning & Re-oiling with Captions
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This video explains the simple steps needed to clean your K&N cotton air filter. It also explains how to properly oil your K&N air filter....
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TOTW K&N; Motorcycle Air Filter Recharge How to Video
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www.cruisercustomizing.com In this TOTW, Kyle Bradshaw of www.CruiserCustomizing.com demonstrates how to save money with the use of a K&N Lifetime Air Filter. Kyle shows the K&N demo with a stock paper filter, a new K&N and then...
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2006 Civic Si with drop in K&N; Filter
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quick video of the k&n install and me driving on some back roads. This is 100% stock except for the KN filter. I do not claim any HP gains. I however did gain a few MPG. I have since put an AEM CAI....
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How to oil your K&N; air filter - VE SV6
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Here is a video tutorial how to oil your K&N air filter and fit it back on to your car. K&N Performance Air Intake System (63-3072) My Car: Holden Commodore VE SV6 2008 for more info see: www.klaslo.com...
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  • Airbus A320 stand at Monastir airport. The CFM56-5 series is designed for the Airbus aircraft and has a very wide thrust rating of between 22,000 and 34,000 lbf (97.9 and 151 kN).
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  • A formation of Italian F-104Ss. 246 aircraft produced mainly by Fiat and Aeritalia (one aircraft was lost before delivery), upgraded for the interception role having NASARR R-21G/H radar with moving target indicator and continuous wave illuminator for SARH missiles (initially AIM-7 Sparrow), two additional wing and two underbelly hardpoints (to give a total of nine), uprated J79-GE-19 engine with 52.8 kN (11,870 lbf) thrust (79.6 kN/17,900 lbf with afterburner), and two additional ventral fins f
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  • Bismarck comes under attack by aircraft from Victorious. Bismarck had been damaged in the engagement with Hood and Prince of Wales and forced to reduce speed, she was still capable of reaching 27 to 28 kn (50 to 52 km/h; 31 to 32 mph), the same maximum speed of Tovey's King George V. Unless Bismarck could be slowed, the British would be unable to prevent her from reaching St. Nazaire.
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  • The TF39s a C-5 is a revolutionary 1960s engine rated from 41,000 to 43,000 lbf (191 to 205 kN) of thrust.
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  • KN Lawn Service personnel talk with Matt Flach, right, a landscape architect at Naval Facilities Engineering Command, Hawaii.
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  • A crew from KN Lawn Service tends to a planter bed fronting the Navy Exchange (NEX) Mall and Commissary at Pearl Harbor.
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  • A vendor prepares bouquets of roses at a flower market in downtown Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, Saturday, Feb. 12, 2005. The flower markets are busy ahead of St. Valentine´s Day, as a tradition is slowly being adopted in Malaysian cities, where it is kn
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  • 2005/08/25 Tropical Storm Katrina - Tropical Storm Katrina is shown here as observed by NASA´s QuikSCAT satellite on August 25, 2005, at 08:37 UTC (4:37 a.m. in Florida). At this time, the storm had 80 kilometers per hour (50 miles per hour; 43 kn
  • 2005/08/25 Tropical Storm Katrina - Tropical Storm Katrina is shown here as observed by NASA´s QuikSCAT satellite on August 25, 2005, at 08:37 UTC (4:37 a.m. in Florida). At this time, the storm had 80 kilometers per hour (50 miles per hour; 43 kn
  • 2005/08/25 Tropical Storm Katrina - Tropical Storm Katrina is shown here as observed by NASA´s QuikSCAT satellite on August 25, 2005, at 08:37 UTC (4:37 a.m. in Florida). At this time, the storm had 80 kilometers per hour (50 miles per hour; 43 kn
  • 2005/08/25 Tropical Storm Katrina - Tropical Storm Katrina is shown here as observed by NASA´s QuikSCAT satellite on August 25, 2005, at 08:37 UTC (4:37 a.m. in Florida). At this time, the storm had 80 kilometers per hour (50 miles per hour; 43 kn
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The Hindu Commercialisation and politicalisation of religion is on an upward trend in Kerala, according to noted historian and educationist K.N. Panikkar. He was speaking after inaugurating the 27th State Conference of the Kerala Yukthivadi Sangham at the C.S.I. Retreat Centre on Friday. Dr. Panikkar pointed...(size: 2.3Kb)
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Business Wire Pioneer in digital brand metrics will bring new efficiency to ad efforts from BrightRoll, SocialVibe, and TubeMogul NEW YORK - KN Dimestore, a division of Knowledge Networks, announced today the signing of three major new publishers and media technology companies that will leverage its real-time...(size: 7.1Kb)
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DNA India Former BJP leader KN Govindacharya today favoured bringing the Prime Minister's office (PMO) under the ambit of the Lokpal Bill and asked all parties to unite when it came to upholding values. "Though members of the draft committee are in a fix on bringing PMO within the ambit of the...(size: 1.9Kb)
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A knight is a member of the warrior class of the Middle Ages in Europe who followed a code of law called "chivalry". In other Indo-European languages, cognates of ''cavalier'' or ''rider'' are more prevalent (e.g., French ''chevalier'' and German ''Ritter''), suggesting a connection to the knight's mode of transport. Since antiquity a position of honour and prestige has been held by mounted warriors such as the Greek ''hippeus'' and the Roman ''eques'', and knighthood in the Middle Ages was inextricably linked with horsemanship.

The British legend of King Arthur was popularised throughout Europe in the Middle Ages by the cleric Geoffrey of Monmouth in his ''Historia Regum Britanniae'' ("History of the Kings of Britain"), written in the 1130s. Sir Thomas Malory's ''Le Morte d'Arthur'' ("The Death of Arthur"), written in 1485, was important in defining the ideal of chivalry which is essential to the modern concept of the knight as an elite warrior sworn to uphold the values of faith, loyalty, courage, and honour. During the Renaissance, the genre of chivalric romance became popular in literature, growing ever more idealistic and eventually giving rise to a new form of realism in literature popularised by Miguel de Cervantes' ''Don Quixote''. This novel explored the ideals of knighthood and their incongruity with the reality of Cervantes' world. In the late medieval period, new methods of warfare began to render classical knights in armour obsolete, but the titles remained in many nations.

Some orders of knighthood, such as the Knights Templar, have themselves become the object of legend; others have disappeared into obscurity. Today, a number of orders of knighthood continue to exist in several countries, such as the English Order of the Garter, the Swedish Royal Order of the Seraphim, and the Royal Norwegian Order of St. Olav. Each of these orders has its own criteria for eligibility, but knighthood is generally granted by a head of state to selected persons to recognise some meritorious achievement.

Etymology

The word ''knight'', from Old English ''cniht'' ("boy" or "servant"), is a cognate of the German word ''Knecht'' ("servant, bondsman"). This meaning, of unknown origin, is common among West Germanic languages (cf: Old Frisian ''kniucht'', Dutch ''knecht'', Danish ''knægt'', Swedish ''knekt'', Middle High German ''kneht'', all meaning "boy, youth, lad", as well as German ''Knecht'' "servant, bondsman, vassal"). Old English ''cniht'' had no particular connection to horsemanship, referring to any servant. A ''rādcniht'' (meaning "riding-servant") was a servant delivering messages or patrolling coastlines on horseback. Old English ''cnihthād'' ("knighthood") had the meaning of adolescence (''i.e.'' the period between childhood and manhood) by 1300.

A narrowing of the generic meaning "servant" to "military follower of a king or other superior" is visible by 1100. The specific military sense of a ''knight'' being a mounted warrior in the heavy cavalry emerges only in the Hundred Years' War. The verb "to knight", i.e. to make someone a knight appears around 1300, and from the same time, the word "knighthood" shifted from "adolescence" to "rank or dignity of a knight".

In this respect English differs from most other European languages, where the equivalent word emphasizes the status and prosperity of war horse ownership. Linguistically, the association of horse ownership with social status extends back at least as far as ancient Greece, where many aristocratic names incorporated the Greek word for ''horse'', like Hipparchus and Xanthippe; the character Pheidippides in Aristophanes' ''Clouds'' has his grandfather's name with ''hipp-'' inserted to sound more aristocratic. Similarly, the Greek (''hippeus'') is commonly translated "knight"; at least in its sense of the highest of the four Athenian social classes, those who could afford to maintain a warhorse in the state service.

An Equestrian (Latin, from ''eques'' "horseman", from ''equus'' "horse") was a member of the second highest social class in the Roman Republic and early Roman Empire. This class is often translated as "knight"; the medieval knight, however, was called ''miles'' in Latin, (which in classical Latin meant "soldier", normally infantry).

In the later Roman Empire the classical Latin word for horse, ''equus,'' was replaced in common parlance by vulgar Latin ''caballus'', sometimes thought to derive from Gaulish ''caballos''. From ''caballus'' arose terms in the various Romance languages cognate to the (French-derived) English ''cavalier'': Old Italian ''cavaliere'', Italian ''cavallo'', French ''cheval'', Spanish ''caballero'', French ''chevalier'', Portuguese ''cavaleiro'', Romanian ''cavaler''. The Germanic languages prefer terms cognate to the English ''rider'': German ''Ritter'', and Dutch and Scandinavian ''ridder''.

Origins of medieval knighthood

Since antiquity, heavy cavalry known as Cataphracts were involved in various wars mainly by Iranian peoples, with their arms and role in battle similar to those of the medieval knight. However, a cataphract had no fixed political position or social role other than his military function. The Iranian Sarmatians were probably the originator of the armored knights of medieval Europe. Knighthood as known in Europe was characterized by the combination of two elements, feudalism and service as a mounted warrior. Both arose under the reign of the Frankish emperor Charlemagne, from which the knighthood of the Middle Ages can be seen to have had its genesis.

Some portions of the armies of Germanic peoples who occupied Europe from the 3rd century CE, had always been mounted, and some armies, such as those of the Ostrogoths, comprised mainly cavalry. However it was the Franks who came to dominate Western and Central Europe after the fall of Rome, and they generally fielded armies composed of large masses of infantry, with an infantry elite, the comitatus, which often rode to battle on horseback rather than marching on foot. Riding to battle had two key advantages: it reduced fatigue, particularly when the elite soldiers wore armour (as was increasingly the case in the centuries after the fall of the Western Roman empire); and it gave the soldiers more mobility to react to the raids of the enemy, particularly the Muslim invasions which reached Europe in 711. So it was that the armies of the Frankish ruler and warlord Charles Martel, which defeated the Umayyad Arab invasion at the Battle of Tours in 732, were still largely infantry armies, the elites riding to battle but dismounting to fight, providing a hard core for the levy of the infantry warbands. As the 8th century progressed into the Carolingian Age, the Franks were generally on the attack, and larger numbers of warriors took to their horses to ride with the Emperor in his wide-ranging campaigns of conquest. At about this time the Franks increasingly remained on horseback to fight on the battlefield as true cavalry rather than as mounted infantry, and would continue to do so for centuries thereafter. Although in some nations the knight returned to foot combat in the 14th century, the association of the knight with mounted combat with a spear, and later a lance, remained a strong one. These mobile mounted warriors made Charlemagne’s far-flung conquests possible, and to secure their service he rewarded them with grants of land called benefices. These were given to the captains directly by the Emperor to reward their efforts in the conquests, and they in turn were to grant benefices to their warrior contingents, who were a mix of free and unfree men. In the century or so following Charlemagne’s death, his newly empowered warrior class grew stronger still, and Charles the Bald declared their fiefs to be hereditary. The period of chaos in the 9th and 10th centuries, between the fall of the Carolingian central authority and the rise of separate Western and Eastern Frankish kingdoms (later to become France and Germany respectively), only entrenched this newly-landed warrior class. This was because governing power, and defence against Viking, Magyar and Saracen attack, became an essentially local affair which revolved around these new hereditary local lords and their ''demesnes''.

The resulting hereditary, landed class of mounted elite warriors, the knights, were increasingly seen as the only true soldiers of Europe, hence the exclusive use of ''miles'' for them.

The first military orders of knighthood were the Knights Hospitaller founded at the First Crusade of 1099, followed by the Knights Templar (1119). At the time of their foundation, these were intended as monastic orders, whose members would act as simple soldiers protecting pilgrims. It was only over the following century, with the successful conquest of the Holy Land and the rise of the crusader states, that these orders became powerful and prestigious.

The ideal of chivalry as the ethos of the Christian warrior, and the transmutation of the term ''knight'' from the meaning "servant, soldier", and of ''chevalier'' "mounted soldier", to refer to a member of this ideal class, is significantly influenced by the Crusades, on one hand inspired by the military orders of monastic warriors, as seen retrospectively from the point of view of the beginning Late Middle Ages, and on the other hand influenced by Islamic (Saracen) ideals of ''furusiyya''.

Maximilian I, Holy Roman Emperor (1459–1519) is often referred to as the last true knight. He was the last emperor to lead his troops onto the battlefield.

Chivalric code

Knights of the medieval era were asked to "Protect the weak, defenseless, helpless, and fight for the general welfare of all." These few guidelines were the main duties of a medieval knight, but they were very hard to accomplish fully. Rarely could even the best of knights achieve these goals. Knights trained in hunting, fighting, and riding, amongst other things. They were also trained to practise courteous, honorable behaviour, which was considered extremely important. Chivalry (derived from the French word chevalier implying "skills to handle a horse") was the main principle guiding a knight’s life style. The code of chivalry dealt with three main areas: the military, social life, and religion.

The military side of life was very important to knighthood. Along with the fighting elements of war, there were many customs and rules to be followed as well. A way of demonstrating military chivalry was to own expensive, heavy weaponry. Weapons were not the only crucial instruments for a knight. Horses were also extremely important, and each knight often owned several horses for distinct purposes. One of the greatest signs of chivalry was the flying of coloured banners, to display power and to distinguish knights in battle and in tournaments. Warriors were not only required to own all these belongings to prove their allegiance: they were expected to act with military courtesy as well. In combat when nobles and knights were taken prisoner, their lives were spared and were often held for ransom in somewhat comfortable surroundings. This same code of conduct did not apply to non-knights (archers, peasants, foot-soldiers, etc.) who were often slaughtered after capture, and who were viewed during battle as mere impediments to knights' getting to other knights to fight them.

Becoming a knight was not a widely attainable goal in the medieval era. Sons of knights were eligible for the ranks of knighthood, but while other young men could indeed become knights, the job was just nearly impossible, especially for those from the lowest class. Those who were destined to become knights were singled out: in boyhood, these future warriors were sent off to a castle as pages, later becoming squires. Commonly around the age of 20, knights would be admitted to their rank in a ceremony called either "dubbing" (from the French ''adoubement''), or the "Accolade". Although these strong young men had proved their eligibility, their social status would be permanently controlled. They were expected to obey the code of chivalry at all times, and no failure was accepted.

Chivalry and religion were mutually influenced. The early Crusades helped to clarify the moral code of chivalry as it related to religion. As a result, Christian armies began to devote their efforts to sacred purposes. As time passed, clergy instituted religious vows which required knights to use their weapons chiefly for the protection of the weak and defenceless, especially women and orphans, and of churches.

The Code of Chivalry continued to influence social behaviour long after the actual knighthood ceased to exist, influencing for example 19th century Victorian perceptions of how a "gentleman" ought to behave up to today.

Knights in literature

Knights and the ideals of knighthood featured largely in medieval and Renaissance literature, and have secured a permanent place in literary romance. While chivalric romances abound, particularly notable literary portrayals of knighthood include Geoffrey Chaucer's ''The Knight's Tale'', Baldassare Castiglione's ''The Book of the Courtier'', and Miguel de Cervantes' ''Don Quixote'', as well as Sir Thomas Malory's ''Le Morte d'Arthur'' and other Arthurian tales (Geoffrey of Monmouth's ''Historia Regum Britanniae'', the Pearl Poet's ''Sir Gawain and the Green Knight'', etc.). The ideal courtier—the chivalrous knight—of Baldassarre Castiglione's ''The Book of the Courtier'' became a model of the ideal virtues of nobility. Castiglione's tale took the form of a discussion among the nobility of the court of the Duke of Urbino, in which the characters determine that the ideal knight should be renowned not only for his bravery and prowess in battle, but also as a skilled dancer, athlete, singer and orator, and he should also be well-read in the Humanities and classical Greek and Latin literature.

Heraldry and other attributes

Knights are generally ''armigerous'' (bearing a coat of arms), and indeed they played an essential role in the development of heraldry. As heavier armour, including enlarged shields and enclosed helmets, developed in the Middle Ages, the need for marks of identification arose, and with coloured shields and surcoats, coat armory was born. Armorial rolls were created to record the knights of various regions or those who participated in various tournaments.

Additionally, knights adopted certain forms of regalia which became closely associated with the status of knighthood. At the Battle of Crécy (1346), Edward III of England sent his son, Edward, the Black Prince, to lead the charge into battle and when pressed to send reinforcements, the king replied, "say to them that they suffer him this day to win his spurs." Clearly, by this time, spurs had already become emblematic of knighthood. The livery collar is also specifically associated with knighthood.

Orders of knighthood

Military–monastic orders

  • Knights Hospitaller, founded during the First Crusade, 1099
  • Order of Saint Lazarus established about 1100
  • Knights Templar, founded 1118, disbanded 1307
  • Teutonic Knights, established about 1190, and ruled the Monastic State of the Teutonic Knights in Prussia until 1525
  • Other orders were established in the Iberian peninsula, under the influence of the orders in the Holy Land and the Crusader movement of the Reconquista:

  • the Order of Aviz, established in Avis in 1143
  • the Order of Alcántara, established in Alcántara in 1156
  • the Order of Calatrava, established in Calatrava in 1158
  • the Order of Santiago, established in Santiago in 1164.
  • Chivalric orders

    After the Crusades, the military orders became idealized and romanticized, resulting in the late medieval notion of chivalry, as reflected in the Arthurian romances of the time. The creation of chivalric orders was fashionable among the nobility in the 14th and 15th centuries, and this is still reflected in contemporary honours systems, including the term order itself. Examples of notable orders of chivalry are:
  • the Order of Saint George, founded by Charles I of Hungary in 1325/6
  • the Order of the Most Holy Annunciation, founded by count Amadeus VI in 1346
  • the Order of the Garter, founded by Edward III of England around 1348
  • the Order of the Dragon, founded by King Sigismund of Luxemburg in 1408
  • the Order of the Golden Fleece, founded by Philip III, Duke of Burgundy in 1430
  • the Order of Saint Michael, founded by Louis XI of France in 1469
  • the Order of the Thistle, founded by King James VII of Scotland (also known as James II of England) in 1687
  • the Order of the Elephant, which may have been first founded by Christian I of Denmark, but was founded in its current form by King Christian V in 1693
  • the Order of the Bath, founded by George I in 1725
  • Ceremonial

    From roughly 1560, purely honorific orders were established, as a way to confer prestige and distinction, unrelated to military service and chivalry in the more narrow sense. Such orders were particularly popular in the 17th and 18th centuries, and knighthood continues to be conferred in various countries:

  • The United Kingdom (see British honors system) and some Commonwealth of Nations countries;
  • Some European countries, such as The Netherlands (see below).
  • The Holy See — see Papal Orders of Chivalry.
  • There are other monarchies and also republics that also follow this practice. Modern knighthoods are typically awarded in recognition for services rendered to society: services which are not necessarily martial in nature. The British musician Elton John, for example, is a Knight Bachelor, thus entitled to be called Sir Elton. The female equivalent is a ''Dame''.

    In the British honor system the knightly style of ''Sir'' is accompanied by the given name, and optionally the surname. So, Elton John may be called ''Sir Elton'' or ''Sir Elton John'', but never ''Sir John''. Similarly, actress Judi Dench DBE may be addressed as ''Dame Judi'' or ''Dame Judi Dench'', but never ''Dame Dench''.

    Wives of knights, however, are entitled to the honorific "Lady" before their husband's surname. Thus Sir Paul McCartney's ex-wife was formally styled ''Lady McCartney'' (rather than ''Lady Paul McCartney'' or ''Lady Heather McCartney''). The style ''Dame Heather McCartney'' could be used for the wife of a knight; however, this style is largely archaic and is only used in the most formal of documents, or where the wife is a Dame in her own right (such as Dame Norma Major, who gained her title six years before her husband Sir John Major was knighted). The husbands of Dames have no honorific, so Dame Norma's husband remained John Major until he received his own knighthood.

    Since the reign of Edward VII a clerk in holy orders in the Church of England or in another Anglican Church has not normally received the accolade on being appointed to a degree of knighthood. He receives the insignia of his honor and may place the appropriate letters after his name or title but he may not be called Sir and his wife may not be called Lady. The Rt Revd the Hon Sir Paul Reeves did receive the accolade and is correctly called Sir but it is not clear how this situation arose. Ministers of other Christian Churches are entitled to receive the accolade. For example, His Eminence Sir Norman Cardinal Gilroy did receive the accolade on his appointment as Knight Commander of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire in 1969. A knight who is subsequently ordained does not lose his title. A famous example of this situation was The Revd Sir Derek Pattinson, who was ordained just a year after he was appointed Knight Bachelor, apparently somewhat to the consternation of officials at Buckingham Palace. A woman clerk in holy orders may be appointed a Dame in exactly the same way as any other woman since there are no military connotations attached to the honour. A clerk in holy orders who is a baronet is entitled to use the title Sir.

    Outside the British honours system it is usually considered improper to address a knighted person as 'Sir' or 'Dame'. Some countries, however, historically ''did'' have equivalent honorifics for knights, such as Cavaliere in Italy (e.g. ''Cavaliere'' Benito Mussolini), and Ritter in Germany and the Austro-Hungarian Empire (e.g. Georg ''Ritter'' von Trapp'').

    State Knighthoods in the Netherlands are issued in three orders, the Order of William, the Order of the Netherlands Lion, and the Order of Orange Nassau. Additionally there remain a few hereditary knights in the Netherlands.

    In France, among other orders are the Légion d'Honneur, the Ordre National du Mérite, the Ordre des Palmes académiques and the Ordre des Arts et des Lettres. The lowest of the ranks conferred by these orders is ''Chevalier'', meaning Knight.

    In the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth the monarchs tried to establish chivalric orders but the hereditary lords who controlled the Union did not agree and managed to ban such assemblies. They feared the King would use Orders to gain support for absolutist goals and to make formal distinctions among the peerage which could lead to its legal breakup into two separate classes, and that the King would later play one against the other and eventually limit the legal privileges of hereditary nobility. But finally in 1705 King August II managed to establish the Order of the White Eagle which remains Poland's most prestigious order of that kind. The head of state (now the President as the acting Grand Master) confers knighthoods of the Order to distinguished citizens, foreign monarchs and other heads of state. The Order has its Chapter. There were no particular honorifics that would accompany a knight's name as historically all (or at least by far most) its members would be royals or hereditary lords anyway. So today, a knight is simply referred to as "Name Surname, knight of the White Eagle (Order)".

    Hereditary knighthoods in Great Britain and Ireland

    There are traces of the Continental system of hereditary knighthood on the British Isles.. Notably all three of the following belong to the Welsh-Norman FitzGerald dynasty, created by the Earls of Desmond, acting as Earls Palatine, for their kinsmen.
  • Knight of Kerry or Green Knight (FitzGerald of Kerry) — the current holder is Sir Adrian FitzGerald, 6th Baronet of Valencia, 24th Knight of Kerry. He is also a Knight of Malta, and currently President of the Irish Association of the Sovereign Military Order of Malta.
  • Knight of Glin or Black Knight (FitzGerald of Limerick) — the current holder is Desmond FitzGerald, 29th Knight of Glin
  • White Knight (see Edmund Fitzgibbon) — now dormant
  • Another Irish family were the O'Shaughnessys, who were created knights in 1553 under the policy of Surrender and regrant (first established by Henry VIII of England).

    Since 1611, the British Crown has awarded a hereditary title in the form of the Baronetcy. Like knights, baronets are accorded the title ''Sir''. Baronets are not peers of the realm, and did not sit in the House of Lords when it was a hereditary house, therefore like knights they remain commoners in the view of the British nobility system. However, unlike knights, the title is hereditary and the recipient does not receive an accolade. The position is therefore more comparable with hereditary knighthoods in continental European orders of nobility, such as ''ritter'', than with knighthoods under the British orders of chivalry.

    Women in orders of knighthood

    England

    Women were appointed to the Order of the Garter almost from the start. In all, 68 women were appointed between 1358 and 1488, including all consorts. Though many were women of royal blood, or wives of knights of the Garter, some women were neither. They wore the garter on the left arm, and some are shown on their tombstones with this arrangement. After 1488, no other appointments of women are known, although it is said that the Garter was granted to Neapolitan poet Laura Bacio Terricina, by Edward VI. In 1638, a proposal was made to revive the use of robes for the wives of knights in ceremonies, but this did not occur. Queen consorts have been made Ladies of the Garter since 1901 (Queens Alexandra in 1901, Mary in 1910, Elizabeth in 1937). The first non-Royal woman to be made Lady Companion of the Garter was Lavinia, duchess of Norfolk in 1990, the second was Baroness Thatcher in 1995 (post-nominal: LG). On Nov. 30, 1996, Marion Ann Forbes, Lady Fraser was made Lady of the Thistle, the first non-Royal woman (post-nominal: LT). (See Edmund Fellowes, Knights of the Garter, 1939; and Beltz: Memorials of the Order of the Garter). The first woman to be granted a knighthood in modern Britain seems to have been H.H. Nawab Sikandar Begum Sahiba, Nawab Begum of Bhopal, who became a Knight Grand Commander of the Order of the Star of India (GCSI) in 1861, at the foundation of the order. Her daughter received the same honor in 1872, as well as her granddaughter in 1910. The order was open to "princes and chiefs" without distinction of gender. The first European woman to have been granted an order of knighthood was Queen Mary, when she was made a Knight Grand Commander of the same order, by special statute, in celebration of the Delhi Durbar of 1911. She was also granted a knighthood in 1917, when the Order of the British Empire was created (it was the first order explicitly open to women). The Royal Victorian Order was opened to women in 1936, and the Order of Bath and Saint Michael and Saint George in 1965 and 1971 respectively.

    France

    Medieval French had two words, chevaleresse and chevalière, which were used in two ways: one was for the wife of a knight, and this usage goes back to the 14th c. The other was possibly for a female knight. Here is a quote from Menestrier, a 17th c. writer on chivalry: "It was not always necessary to be the wife of a knight in order to take this title. Sometimes, when some male fiefs were conceded by special privilege to women, they took the rank of chevaleresse, as one sees plainly in Hemricourt where women who were not wives of knights are called chevaleresses." Modern French orders of knighthood include women, for example the Légion d'Honneur (Legion of Honor) since the mid-19th c., but they are usually called chevaliers. The first documented case is that of Marie-Angélique Duchemin (1772-1859), who fought in the Revolutionary Wars, received a military disability pension in 1798, the rank of 2nd lieutenant in 1822, and the Legion of Honor in 1852. A recipient of the Ordre National du Mérite recently requested from the order's Chancery the permission to call herself "chevalière," and the request was granted (AFP dispatch, Jan 28, 2000).

    Italy

    As related in ''Orders of Knighthood, Awards and the Holy See'' by H.E. Cardinale (1983), the Order of the glorious Saint Mary was founded by Loderigo d'Andalo (a nobleman of Bologna) in 1233, and approved by pope Alexander IV in 1261. It was the first religious order of knighthood to grant the rank of militissa to women. However, this order was suppressed by Sixtus V in 1558.

    The Low Countries

    At the initiative of Catherine Baw in 1441, and 10 years later of Elizabeth, Mary, and Isabella of the house of Hornes, orders were founded which were open exclusively to women of noble birth, who received the French title of chevalière or the Latin title of equitissa. In his Glossarium (s.v. militissa), Du Cange notes that still in his day (17th c.), the female canons of the canonical monastery of St. Gertrude in Nivelles (Brabant), after a probation of 3 years, are made knights (militissae) at the altar, by a (male) knight called in for that purpose, who gives them the accolade with a sword and pronounces the usual words.

    Spain

    To honor those women who defended the town of Tortosa against an attack by the Moors, Raymond Berenger, then count of Barcelona, created the order of the Hatchet (orden de la Hacha) in 1149. As reported by Ashmole in ''The Institution, Laws, and Ceremony of the Most Noble Order of the Garter'' (1672) Ch. 3, sect. 3: "The inhabitants [of Tortosa] being at length reduced to gread streights [sic], desired relief of the Earl, but he, being not in a condition to give them any, they entertained some thoughts of making a surrender. Which the Women hearing of, to prevent the disaster threatning their City, themselves, and Children, put on men's Clothes, and by a resolute sally, forced the Moors to raise the Siege. The Earl, finding himself obliged, bythe gallentry [sic] of the action, thought fit to make his acknowlegements thereof, by granting them several Privileges and Immunities, and to perpetuate the memory of so signal an attempt, instituted an Order, somewhat like a Military Order, into which were admitted only those Brave Women, deriving the honor to their Descendants, and assigned them for a Dadge, a thing like a Fryars Capouche [sic], sharp at the top, after the form of a Torch, and of a crimson colour, to be worn upon their Head-clothes. He also ordained, that at all publick [sic] meetings, the women should have precedence of the Men. That they should be exempted from all Taxes, and that all the Apparel and Jewels, though of never so great value, left by their dead Husbands, should be their own. These Women having thus aquired this Honor by their personal Valour, carried themselves after the Military Knights of those days."

    See also

  • Accolade
  • British honours system
  • Chivalric orders
  • Destrier
  • Heavy Cavalry
  • Knightly Virtues
  • Knight-errant
  • Medieval warfare
  • Nobility
  • Papal Orders of Chivalry
  • Analogous concepts:

  • Bogatyr, or ''vityaz'', the Kievan Rus' knight-errant
  • Vitez, the Medieval Bosnian knight
  • Cataphract, an ancient heavy cavalry
  • Hwarang, a similar class in Korean history
  • Hidalgo, a similar class in Spanish history
  • Sipahi, a similar class in Turkish history
  • Kshatriya, a similar class in Indian history
  • Mamluk, a similar class in Middle Eastern history
  • Noker, a similar class in Mongol history
  • Samurai, a similar class in Japanese history
  • Youxia, a similar class in Chinese history
  • Notes

    References

    Arnold, Benjamin. ''German Knighthood, 1050-1300''. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1985. ISBN 0198219601
  • Bloch, Marc. ''Feudal Society'', 2nd ed. Translated by Manyon. London: Routledge & Keagn Paul, 1965.
  • Bluth, B. J. ''Marching with Sharpe''. London: Collins, 2001. ISBN 0004145372
  • Boulton, D'Arcy Jonathan Dacre. ''The Knights of the Crown: The Monarchical Orders of Knighthood in Later Medieval Europe, 1325-1520''. 2d revised ed. Woodbridge, UK: Boydell Press, 2000. ISBN 0851157955
  • Bull, Stephen. ''An Historical Guide to Arms and Armour''. London: Studio Editions, 1991. ISBN 1851707239
  • Carey, Brian Todd; Allfree, Joshua B; Cairns, John. ''Warfare in the Medieval World'', UK: Pen & Sword Military, June 2006. ISBN 1844153398
  • Edge, David; John Miles Paddock (1988) ''Arms & Armor of the Medieval Knight''. Greenwich, CT: Bison Books Corp. ISBN 0517103192
  • Edwards, J. C. "What Earthly Reason? The replacement of the longbow by handguns." ''Medieval History Magazine'', Is. 7, March 2004.
  • Embleton, Gerry. ''Medieval Military Costume''. UK: Crowood Press, 2001. ISBN 1861263716
  • Forey, Alan John. ''The Military Orders: From the Twelfth to the Early Fourteenth Centuries''. Basingstoke, Hampshire, UK: Macmillan Education, 1992. ISBN 0333462343
  • Hare, Christopher. ''Courts & camps of the Italian renaissance''. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1908.
  • Laing, Lloyd and Jennifer Laing. ''Medieval Britain: The Age of Chivalry''. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1996. ISBN 0312162782
  • Oakeshott, Ewart. ''A Knight and his Horse'', 2nd ed. Chester Springs, PA: Dufour Editions, 1998. ISBN 0802312977
  • Robards, Brooks. ''The Medieval Knight at War''. London: Tiger Books, 1997. ISBN 1855019191
  • Shaw, William A. ''The Knights of England: A Complete Record from the Earliest Time''. London: Central Chancery, 1906. (Republished Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Co., 1970). ISBN 080630443X Williams, Alan. "The Metallurgy of Medieval Arms and Armour", in ''Companion to Medieval Arms and Armour''. Nicolle, David, ed. Woodbridge, UK: Boydell Press, 2002. ISBN 0851158722

    External links

  • Association of Papal Orders in Great Britain
  • Modern Honours of the UK
  • International Commission for Orders of Chivalry
  • The Soldier in later Medieval England Detailed service records of 250,000 medieval soldiers are online.
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