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The Ages of Chivalry

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 * 1) Chivalry- A complex set of ideals, that demaned that a knight fight bravely in defense of three masters. The three masters were the fuedal lord, chosen lady, and heavenly Lord.
 * 2) Tournaments- Mock battles that some young knights took part in.
 * 3) Troubadours- The traveling poets and musisians at the castles adn courts of europe.

Key People- Eleanor of Aquitaine- 1122-1204. As queen she gave birth to two sons Richard the lion hearted and John.

Ideas/Events:

KNIGHTS: WARRIORS ON HORSEBACK


 * Charles Martel had first started the idea of knights in the 700s, he noticed that Muslim calvery often turned the tide of the battles.
 * Leather saddels and stirrups changed warfare forever, saddles kept the horsemen from falling off the horse, while srirrups enabled the horsemen to handle heavier weapons.
 * To defened their territores lords made their own army of knights to protect them, in return the knights recived feifs of land.
 * From a lord's knights he tipically exspected 40 days of combat.
 * The knight's pastime revolved around training and war.

KNIGHTHOOD AND THE CODE OF CHIVALRY:


 * A chivalrious knight also protected the weak and the poor.
 * The ideal knight was loyal, brave and coregeous, most knights didn't meet these exspectations, they treated the lower class brutally.
 * At age 7 a son a a nobel was sent away to the castle of another lord and was a page.
 * The levels of knighthood are age 7-14 a page, 14-21 a squire or servent to a knight, and at age 21 become a full fledged knight.
 * A castle under seige was a glorious sight.

LITERATURE OF CHIVALRY:


 * Many stories idealized castle life. They glorifed knighthood and chivalry, touraments and real battles.
 * Feudal lords and their ladies liked listening to epic poems.
 * //The Song of Roland// is one of the earliest and most famous midevil epic poems.
 * Under the code of chivalry a knights duty to his lady is aas important as his duty to his lord.

WOMEN'S ROLE IN FEUDAL SOCIETY:


 * Women were thought of as inferior to men.
 * Under the feudal system nobelwomen could inherit estates from her husband.
 * Weather young or old nobelwomen were generally confined to activities in the home, and they didn't own land because lords passed feifs down to their sons, not daugters.
 * Females in peasent families were poor and powerless.
 * The economic distrobution that women made was essential to the survival of the peasent household.