Liz

Monday, September 20, 2010

So in class the knights code of chivalry was mentioned. I had never heard of this before so I decided to look up what it was. First of all I actually thought knights did go around "getting some" from any woman that he wanted and they were just good romanticists. Knights actually had very strict rules that they had to live by and these are some.

http://www.middle-ages.org.uk/knights-code-of-chivalry.htm
The Knights Code of Chivalry described in the Song of Roland and an excellent representation of the Knights Codes of Chivalry are as follows:

To fear God and maintain His Church
To serve the liege lord in valour and faith
To protect the weak and defenceless
To give succour to widows and orphans
To refrain from the wanton giving of offence
To live by honour and for glory
To despise pecuniary reward
To fight for the welfare of all
To obey those placed in authority
To guard the honour of fellow knights
To eschew unfairness, meanness and deceit
To keep faith
At all times to speak the truth
To persevere to the end in any enterprise begun
To respect the honour of women
Never to refuse a challenge from an equal
Never to turn the back upon a foe

2 comments:

mkelso241December 8, 2010 at 1:04 PM
wow, that is a lot of hard things a knight has to follow. I think "to keep faith" and "at all times to speak the truth" would be the hardest things for me, and probably the hardest for everyone. This just shows how respectable you had to be to be considered a knight. Very impressive.
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Edgar Bartolo-ZirandaDecember 9, 2010 at 9:27 AM
The hardest thing for me to follow is the thing bout obeying those in authority. I've always had a hard time obeying laws and rules that seemed to hold me down and not let me be the person that I am. The other thing that I find hard to do is to speak the truth at all times, for what I speak is from my perspective and may not be the truth that others see.
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