In the Medieval times,many
knights rode out to do
battle.They made sieges
on other castles , headlong charges
into bloody
battles, and defeated ther own castles against
sieges . But knights weren't always so good at fighting.
Knights had to pass
long , hard, boring hours of practice ,
practice,practice. First they had to become a page.
Next become a squire
. If squires were
worthy they were dubbed
and became a knight.When a boy
was born into
a family with a knight and turns 6 or 7 he is
sent from his home
to a nearby castle . There he is trained
by a lord of the castle
to become a knight. He starts out as a
page,
a page helps his lord dress and put on armour. He
plays many trainings games that include wrestleing
,piggy-back
wrestleing, sword practice with blunt wooden
swords
and tiny round shields called bucklers ,and lance
practice on
a roling log pulled by 2 other pages toward a
quintain(A
Quintain is a target on one end of a swinging
board) on the other
end is a bag full of sand. When the land
hits the target the
rider has to duck or the bag of sand will
strike him on the back or the head .A page rairly ever
learned how to read
or right because it wasnt tought to be
verry knightly. The
ladies of the manor tought him manors .
The page
waited on the lord or lady. It was his duty and
privlage
to accomptly his lord and lady at all times . He
learned how to hunt
and hawk. When his lord's armour was
rusty ,the page rolled
the aromer in a barrel of sand so that
the rust was gone.
He was tought to be quick ,graceful,and
flexable. He recieved
reglious training from the chaplain. He
sometimes recieved
training-in-arms from the squires. If the
page showed promise,
then at about the age of he became a squire.
A squire was a knights
personal servant. In battle the squire
would bring
the knights replacementes of swords, horses,
lances,
or any item lost or damaged in battle. He had to
become acostomed to
heavy armour, and played games with
real weapons against
real knights. If he got through all the
training then
he became a knight. Today knights become
almost
a myth because people see them as men who kill
Dragons and rescue
princeses. But if you want to learn more
about knights just go to the library nearest to you....
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