Visual Timeline: Medieval Knight

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1015 CE - 1085 CE: Life of the Norman knight Robert Guiscard.
 
1043 CE - 1099 CE: Life of Rodrigo Diaz de Vivar, El Cid.
 
 
1113 CE: The Knights Hospitaller are recognised as a religious order by Pope Paschal II.
 
 
1119 CE: Foundation of the military order the Knights Templar.
 
1146 CE - 1219 CE: The life of the great English knight Sir William Marshal.
 
 
1198 CE: The Order of Teutonic Knights is officially sanctioned by Pope Innocent III.
 
1212 CE: Prince Alexander, future Alexander II of Scotland, is knighted by King John of England in Westminster.
 
 
1244 CE: The Teutonic Order adopts a white surcoat and black cross insignia for all knights.
 
 
1270 CE - 1305 CE: Life of the Scottish knight Sir William Wallace.
 
 
1286 CE - 1330 CE: Life of the Scottish knight Sir James Douglas ('the Black Douglas').
 
 
1320 CE - 1380 CE: Life of the French knight Bertrand du Guesclin, a national hero also known as the "Eagle of Brittany".
 
1344 CE: Windsor Castle hosts a great medieval tournament involving 200 knights.
 
1346 CE: Edward the Black Prince is knighted by his father Edward III of England.
 
1348 CE: Edward III of England creates the Order of the Garter, a chivalric order for knights with its headquarters at Windsor Castle
 
 
1364 CE - 1403 CE: Life of the English knight Sir Henry Percy, also known as 'Hotspur'.
 
1470 CE: The ballad 'The Acts and Deeds of Sir William Wallace, Knight of Elderslie' is composed.
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
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