what was is like in the midevil ages for knights?

Question

how they lived what they did how they where treated what they ate

Answer 1

The process of training for knighthood began before adolescence, inside the prospective knight’s own home, where he was taught courtesy and appropriate manners. Around the age of 7 years, he would be sent away to train and serve at a grander household as a page. Here, he would serve as a kind of waiter and personal servant, entertaining and serving food to his elders. A page was usually the son of a vassal, who sent him to his or another lord’s castle to become a page. For seven years a page was cared for by the women of the house, who instructed him in comportment, courtesy, cleanliness, and religion. He would learn basic hunting and falconry, and also various battle skills such as taking care of, preparing, and riding horses, as well as use of weapons and armour.

A page became a squire when he turned 14 years of age, being assigned or picked by a knight to become his personal aide. This allowed the squire to observe his master while he was in battle, in order to learn from his techniques. He also acted as a personal servant to the knight, taking care of his master’s equipment and horse. This was to uphold the knight’s code that promoted generosity, courtesy, compassion, and most importantly, loyalty. The knight acted as a tutor and taught the squire all he needed to know to become a knight. As the squire grew older, he was expected to follow his master into battle, and attend to his master if the knight fell in battle. Some squires became knights for performing an outstanding deed on the battlefield, but most were knighted by their lord when their training was judged to be complete.

A squire could hope to become a knight when he was about 18 to 21 years old. Once the squire had established sufficient mastery of the required skills, he was dubbed a knight. In the early period, the procedure began with the squire praying into the night, known as vigil. He was then bathed, and in the morning he was dressed in a white shirt, gold tunic, purple cloak, and was knighted by his king or lord. As the Middle Ages progressed, the process changed. The squire was made to vow that he would obey the regulations of chivalry, and never flee from battle. A squire could also be knighted on the battlefield, in which a lord simply performed the accolade, i.e. struck him on the shoulder saying “Be thou a knight”.

The night before his knighting ceremony, the squire would take a cleansing bath, fast, make confession, and pray to God all night in the chapel, readying himself for his life as a knight. Then he would go through the knighting ceremony the following day. Knights followed the code of chivalry, which promoted honour, honesty, respect to God, and other knightly virtues. Knights served their lords and were paid in land, because money was scarce.

Answer 2

The term "medieval knights" is so broad as to make a simple answer nearly impossible. The answer depends on the era of "medieval", country and individual wealth of the knight. A knight could mean anything from the typical King Arthur type knight to simply meaning "mounted soldier". A knight could also be anybody from a commoner that served as a soldier, to a king. If you're looking for the more romantic ideal type knight, the previous posts do a good job of explaining it. If not, you'll need to be more specific about what type of knight.

As for types of food, again, very much depends on where, when and who they were in addition to being a knight. In general, unless they or their lord was highly wealthy, it wouldn't be anything fancy. The following link will likely help for the general european fare:

Answer 3

In response to the answer by the person calling himself Wikipedia: While there were undoubtedly bad men and criminals among the knightly class as there have been among all classes in all times, there is no historical evidence to justify your broad and shallow characterization of knights as oppressors and rapists. Your answer is prejudicial and innacurate, and reflects your own bias and hatred rather than historical fact.

To Ty L: Don't let the above-mentioned poster infect you with his prejudiced and hateful lies. If you want to learn about knights, try the following books:

Life in a Medieval Castle by Joseph and Francis Gies
A Knight and His Armor by Ewart Oakeshott
A Knight in Battle by Ewart Oakeshott
A Knight and his Castle by Ewart Oakeshott
A Knight and his Horse by Ewart Oakeshott
A Knight and his Weapons by Ewart Oakeshott

Joseph and Francis Gies also wrote very good books on everyday life for other people in the middle ages; Life in a Medieval City and Life in a Medieval Village. If you read all three you'll get a very good picture of Medieval life for all classes.

Answer 4

Knights spent a great deal of time intimidating their surfs by rape, pillaging and burning. To this end they protected their territory.
If they weren't harassing their own surfs, they were usually fighting in distant lands in order to impress the King. Knights also had to defend their lord's lands from the enchroachment of the Church who were autonomous from the Kingdom and were actually acting a lot of the time at cross purposes.

Answer 5

they lived in castles, dressed in armour (well most of the time). swooned over fair maidens, went on quests, fought battles, ground the faces of the poor in the dust, and ate venison. And, by the way, it's medieval.