Your unit would likely just back up, reform and help the units on either side of yours push back their opposing unit. If your opponent routs you're not going to break formation to chase after them, breaking out of your formation to catch the fleeing guys would be suicidal. If a few people go killed on either side that side was likely going to rout. There would be more pushing back and forth of the entire units than killing, but each individual in each formation would work with their neighbors to protect each other and try to make openings for their neighbors or guys behind them to be able to attack the other line. If knights engaged another unit during a battle it would be two formations of soldiers approaching each other. I think that's the issue with hollywood and video games. Stabbing someone is not complicated in a massive melee. There used to be many other types of these almanachs, but most have gone out of business. To do so, every noble house and many other places had a book known as the Almanach de Gotha, and for the U.K., Burkes Peerage, which told them exactly where people ranked, where they lived, what members-only clubs they belonged to, where they went to school, when the title originated etc. Yes, you have to know more about them than just seeing their name in order to know exactly where they rank in European nobility. Still, in the case of adding an "Erb-", the reigning count and his primary heir would both carry the "Erb-". Sometimes and "Erb-" was added to the suo jure noble's title ("Erbgraf") which was not added to lesser children's names. In some places, lesser sons were given "subsidiary titles" (lesser titles belonging to the suo jure noble in their family) which all had different lands or names attached to them, but in Germany, for example, the father, the first son, the fourth son, and the eighth daughter were all Prince/Princess von _. You also had all manner of different knightly orders: the monastic orders (Teutonics, Templars, etc), who varied enormously in both wealth and power but nearly all of whom were highly capable military formations. These fellows became the knights-errant of medieval (and later) literature. This was particularly true of latter sons from lesser noble families: they weren't going to inherit their father's lands, so if they didn't join the church it was up to them and their noble title to go out and earn a living. Some were quite impoverished, in fact, and would try to scratch a livings as mercenaries, bodyguards, or through tournaments. That being said, while many knights were landholders or vassals, not all were. These fellows were generally fairly wealthy and were very capable fighters: they spent much of their time training, or doing other activities that supported their role as fighters (hunting and so on). Landed gentry pledged as knights are what we typically think of: the fellow would have a manor house and a village and some land, some peasants or serfs and so on who paid him rents, and from those rents he was to outfit himself with his grotesquely expensive armor and horse, hire some men at arms, and make himself available as a fighter to his lord as required. In Europe at least, "knight" was nearly always simply a title that, theoretically at least, pledged an individual to fight on behalf of the lord who knighted him. "Knight" is actually a pretty broad term. Instructions and advice on how to best do an AMA. Want to do an AMA or know someone who does? Message the mods! Comments should be on-topic and contribute.ĭiscussions are limited to events over 20 years ago.If a post breaks one of our rules or guidelines you will be informed about it. So it is perfectly normally for your post to not show up in the new listing. Feel free to submit interesting articles, tell us about this cool book you just read, or start a discussion about who everyone's favorite figure of minor French nobility is!Īll posts will be reviewed by a human moderator first before they become visible to all subscribers on the subreddit. r/History is a place for discussions about history. Join the r/history Discord server to chat with other history enthusiast!
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