What is the dates of the Golden Age?

Question

w. chivalry and all that.

Answer 1

The concept of chivalry in the sense of "honourable and courteous conduct expected of a knight" was at its height in the 12th and 13th centuries and was strengthened by the Crusades, which led to the founding of the earliest orders of chivalry, the Order of the Hospital of St. John of Jerusalem (Hospitalers) and the Order of the Poor Knights of Christ and of the Temple of Solomon (Templars), both originally devoted to the service of pilgrims to the Holy Land. In the 14th and 15th centuries the ideals of chivalry came to be associated increasingly with aristocratic display and public ceremony rather than service in the field.

Answer 2

The classic and most important person in the age of Chivalry was Eleanor of Aquitaine (1122-1204). Yes, it may have begun somewhat before that, but it didn't really begin until after 1095 and the first crusade. As hard as it is to imagine, the Code of Chivalry was heavily influenced by the Muslim and Arabic World. Of course the ideal extended beyond Eleanor, but that was when it was at it's highest, in the later 12th century.