What's so great about knights in shining armor anyway?

The chivalrous knight in shiny armour protector of the people is a myth invented by Alienor of Aquitaine who forced her own knights and noblemen to become polite, even gallant, and learn poetry as well as hacking one's enemy. The great epics about chivalrous knights come from her court. Until then knights had been nothing but warriors with a nobility title, some with a bit of land attached to the title, most were illiterate and there was nothing gentle or chivalrous about them.

Those who owned land fought to protect their territory, the others tried to find someone to serve to get food and a roof. Later the idea of knightly ideals and honour (some of it at least) spread and came to become the tenets of chivalry, though the ideal was much loftier than the reality. The myth stayed even as the knights disappeared.

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