Pages in category "Medieval German knights" The following 21 pages are in this category, out of 21 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. A. Arnold von Uissigheim; B. Bertold Brühaven; Heinrich von Bülow (Grotekop) E. Egeno I of Konradsburg; Egeno II of Konradsburg; G. Gebhard III of Sulzbach; H. Hans von Trotha;

In Germany, known as the Holy Roman Empire for much of the Middle Ages, several knights gained renown for valor, skills, and chivalrous acts. This article dives into the lives and achievements of some of the most famous German knights from this time, giving particular emphasis to Heinrich Von Bülow.

Order of the Brothers of the Sword, organization of crusading knights that began the successful conquest and Christianization of Livonia (most of modern Latvia and Estonia) between 1202 and 1237. After German merchants from Lübeck and Bremen acquired commercial interests in the lands around the

Medieval German knights (21 P) O. Orders of chivalry of Germany (1 C, 34 P) Pages in category "German knights" The following 20 pages are in this category, out of 20 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. B. Baltic knighthoods; Augustus Buchel; Konrad von Burgsdorff;

2018年6月19日 · Siegfried is a legendary German knight and prince who appears as the hero of the c. 1200 CE German epic poem the Nibelungenlied. More myth than reality, the figure is based on older Germanic and Norse folklore, but he may originally have been inspired by a Frankish knight of the 7th century CE or even a Germanic leader who fought valiantly ...

Knighthood in the Middle Ages was closely linked with horsemanship (and especially the joust) from its origins in the 12th century until its final flowering as a fashion among the high nobility in the Duchy of Burgundy in the 15th century.

2014年8月6日 · Rarely do medieval sources come so close to the inner world of that evocative and perplexing historical figure, the medieval knight. Today, imagining knighthood draws on the long and diverse tradition of portrayals by others, whether twelfth-century clerics or nineteenth-century Romantics.

2019年7月16日 · Prior to the 13th century, in fact, German knights are recorded in a number of contemporary sources as better at fighting on foot than on horse. The 12thcentury Byzantine chronicler Cinnamus records them as being at their best fighting on foot with the sword, comparing them to the French who were better on horseback with the lance.

In 1230 Conrad formally cedes to the order his territories on the west bank of the Vistula. During the next thirty years the knights fight their way east along the coast as far as the Neman river, building castles to hold down the Prussians and sharing out …

Briefly stated, heraldry appeared in the landed aristocracy and quickly spread to the knightly class in the 12th century, at a time when knighthood and nobility remain very distinct classes. Over the course of the 13th century, knighthood and nobility came to merge, just as heraldry spread far beyond either class to be used by all classes of ...