At the same time, they might also be well educated, but this wasn’t always the case, particularly in the beginning. During this time, they’d begin practicing with fake weapons, learn to master riding a horse, take part in hunts, and otherwise do menial tasks serving the knight they were pledged to and their household in various ways. This started out with the young boy serving as a page. While in the beginning the training wasn’t exactly as formalized as it would become, once it was as the centuries progressed, generally those of rather affluent birth and of the male persuasion (though there are some examples of female knights), upon reaching around the age of 7, give or take, would be sent off to some lord or knight to begin their training as a knight. And, in truth, up until they became obsolete in battle around the tail end of this era, knights mostly remained, first and foremost, elite warriors. You’ll no doubt be shocked to learn from this that the knights were, at their core, simply highly trained soldiers on horseback.
While warriors on horseback had been a thing long before, the position of knight as we might think of it was first developed as an official rank of sorts around the 8th century among Charlemagne’s soldiers as he campaigned around. This brings us to the early days of knighthood. But that’s not very interesting, so we’re going to give answering the question our best college try while accounting for this. But what was it actually like to be a knight in medieval times, and what did they actually get up to in their day to day lives?įirst, as a bit of a disclaimer, “Medieval Times” refers to a rather lengthy period from about the 5th to 15th century, with it being impossible to say specifically what life was like for a given knight across such a large expanse of time and various regions where knights were a thing. There are a variety of myths about what it was like to be a knight during medieval times, not just spread by Hollywood, but even by the contemporary legends during medieval times themselves- in both featuring widespread depictions of the chivalric knight rushing to the aid of damsels in distress and generally spending their time being bastions of all that is good and the very definition of “noble”.
Anakin_bagel asks: What was the daily life of a medieval knight like?
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