What are some facts about knights during the middle ages?
Knights started as Pages who learned to ride horses and they did things like clean armor and washed horses for the knights. They also learned manners and how to act polite to people. They started at age 7 and lived with the knight’s family. The second step was a squire; they learned how to joust and went into the battle with the knights, and they’d give them swords. The night before they became a knight, they would spend all day and all night fasting [not eating] and praying. They get dubbed with the touch of the flat part of the blade of a sword by an older knight, and they’re officially knights. That is the ONLY time they’re allowed to get touched with a blade by another person without fighting back. They wore chain mail as protection until armor got more advanced. Then they had more protective forms of protection in battle. They had different armor for different occasions; battles, parties, etc. They were taught to be polite to even their enemies and that they should be respectful a
