Gottfried " Götz " von Berlichingen (pronounced [ˈgɔtfʁiːd fɔn ˈbɛʁlɪçɪŋən], [ˈgœts]; 15 November 1480 – 23 July 1562), also known as Götz of the Iron Hand, was a German (Franconian) Imperial Knight (Reichsritter), mercenary and poet. He was born around 1480 into the noble family of Berlichingen in modern-day Baden-Württemberg.

By the mid to late 16th century, knights were quickly becoming obsolete as countries started creating their own standing armies that were faster to train, cheaper to equip, and easier to mobilize.

2007年4月3日 · A complete record from the earliest time to the present day of the knights of all the orders of chivalry in England, Scotland, and Ireland, and of knights bachelors, incorporating a complete list of knights bachelors dubbed in Ireland

2024年12月21日 · Knighthood lost its martial purpose and, by the 16th century, had been reduced to an honorific status that sovereigns could bestow as they pleased. It became a fashion of modish elegance for the sophisticated nobles of a prince’s entourage.

2024年5月25日 · By the 16th century, the medieval knight was largely anachronism. The rise of humanism and the cultural flowering of the Renaissance created a new ideal of the courtier and gentleman, versed in arts, letters, and sciences[^10].

2023年5月12日 · The knights of the crown : the monarchical orders of knighthood in later medieval Europe, 1325-1520 by Boulton, D'Arcy Jonathan Dacre, 1946-

2020年12月8日 · Knights arrived in England with William the Conqueror in the Norman Conquest of 1066. The Anglo-Saxons saw how they followed their lords and used...

2019年4月9日 · Knights, as a social class, went from a militaristic aristocracy to social nobility, as knighthood because a status symbol. The project focuses on three pillars of knighthood; chivalry, armor, and nobility.

2017年10月3日 · 16th century knights chronology. Monarchs. 21 April 1509 – Henry VII died and was succeeded by Henry VIII; 28 January 1547 – Henry VIII died and was succeeded by Edward VI; 6 July 1553 – Edward VI died; 10-19 July 1553 – Lady Jane Gray, the nine-day Queen, and her successor Mary I; 25 July 1554-55 – Mary married Philip of Spain

knight, French chevalier German Ritter, In the European Middle Ages, a formally professed cavalryman, generally a vassal holding land as a fief from the lord he served (see feudalism). At about 7 a boy bound for knighthood became a page, then at 12 a damoiseau (“lordling”), varlet, or valet, and subsequently a shieldbearer or esquire.