WEBVTT - How Knights Work 0:00:00.240 --> 0:00:02.880 Brought to you by the reinvented two thousand twelve Camray. 0:00:03.120 --> 0:00:07.480 It's ready. Are you welcome to Stuff You Should Know? 0:00:08.080 --> 0:00:16.440 From House Stuff Works dot Com? Hey, and welcome to 0:00:16.480 --> 0:00:20.119 the podcast. I'm Josh Clark, Charles W. Chuck Brian is 0:00:20.480 --> 0:00:23.119 rubbing his hair out across from me. That makes this 0:00:23.200 --> 0:00:27.000 Stuff you Should Know featuring Chuck rubbing his hair I 0:00:27.000 --> 0:00:30.640 thought you said rubbing his hair out out? How do 0:00:30.680 --> 0:00:34.000 you do that? What does that mean against your skull? 0:00:34.080 --> 0:00:39.879 And now it's standing. Sorry, our colloquialism just cause problems 0:00:39.880 --> 0:00:43.800 sometimes on then Yeah, you're right. Yeah, I'm good. You've 0:00:43.840 --> 0:00:48.519 done vomiting four hours, dude? Yeah, like, I'm like to 0:00:48.600 --> 0:00:52.640 the minute almost. I'm glad. This table is what keeps 0:00:52.680 --> 0:00:55.160 us as far apart as I couldn't. I don't think 0:00:55.160 --> 0:00:57.720 I could projectile over here. Oh I thought you might 0:00:57.800 --> 0:01:00.480 get you sick. You mean, vomit on you both, I'm 0:01:00.520 --> 0:01:03.400 kind of afraid of both. Neither one will happen. I'm good, 0:01:04.040 --> 0:01:06.880 So Chuck, I'm glad, you're good. Thank you. I was 0:01:06.920 --> 0:01:09.800 looking all over for something to lead in with this. 0:01:10.200 --> 0:01:15.040 I considered talking about the Paladin class character I created 0:01:15.040 --> 0:01:19.160 when I played Dungeons and Dragons as a kid. Um. 0:01:19.200 --> 0:01:22.800 I don't remember his name, so it's kind of stupid, right, Um. 0:01:22.840 --> 0:01:25.240 I searched news for nights and I found that in 0:01:25.319 --> 0:01:30.840 Crest View, Florida, the Nights overpowered the Hobos and volleyball. Yeah, 0:01:30.959 --> 0:01:36.800 but it's made for a pretty good title, Nights overpower Hobos. Um, 0:01:37.000 --> 0:01:39.520 And that was about it. That's the best I got. 0:01:39.640 --> 0:01:42.880 There's nothing going on with nights really these days except 0:01:42.920 --> 0:01:48.880 the occasional CBS news article about somebody getting an honorary 0:01:48.920 --> 0:01:52.080 titles a musician or actor. This is well, I guess 0:01:52.080 --> 0:01:55.560 there's other people, but they got the press. Yeah, definitely. Um. 0:01:55.640 --> 0:01:58.000 So there's not a lot going on with nights. But 0:01:58.520 --> 0:02:02.480 I can tell you something. If this were or fourteenth century, 0:02:02.920 --> 0:02:06.320 we wouldn't be recording a podcast, no, but we would. 0:02:06.360 --> 0:02:11.840 There'd be news about nights all over the place, everywhere 0:02:10.400 --> 0:02:15.440 they Yeah, so let's go back to this. Let's talk 0:02:15.440 --> 0:02:18.200 about nights. What happened to them? Where did they go, 0:02:18.520 --> 0:02:21.000 where did they come from, what did they do in between? 0:02:21.360 --> 0:02:24.799 Let's get to the meat of this. Shall we take it? Chuck, 0:02:25.480 --> 0:02:28.079 oh Josh, I'm gonna go ahead and start with what 0:02:28.120 --> 0:02:30.520 was going on? Back then after the fall of the 0:02:30.600 --> 0:02:33.760 Roman Empire. So chronologically it is a we'll start at 0:02:33.760 --> 0:02:36.919 the beginning as far as nights are concerned. Uh, we're 0:02:36.919 --> 0:02:39.919 talking about Western Europe. After the fall the Roman Empire. 0:02:39.960 --> 0:02:42.680 It was sort of a sort of a lawless mess. 0:02:42.919 --> 0:02:46.239 It was chaos of an area, no defined countries, no 0:02:46.360 --> 0:02:53.079 defined governments, no laws that anyone was you know, abiding by. 0:02:53.280 --> 0:02:58.320 People were still managing in existence. It was just often 0:02:58.400 --> 0:03:01.040 threatened by violence. Yeah, like if I see something that 0:03:01.080 --> 0:03:04.280 I want, I would take it by force, including your dog. 0:03:04.560 --> 0:03:09.040 Those are the good old days, or that keg of beer. Right. Uh. 0:03:09.080 --> 0:03:11.200 And because of this, it was a little bit hard 0:03:11.200 --> 0:03:15.000 to control. So if you were let's say Charlemagne and 0:03:15.040 --> 0:03:17.320 you had a lot of this land, right, you might 0:03:17.360 --> 0:03:20.760 want to do something. I might want to impose some 0:03:20.840 --> 0:03:26.400 sort of restriction or a body to kind of rule 0:03:26.639 --> 0:03:29.679 or take care of things. Perhaps the geopolitical system. Yeah, 0:03:29.680 --> 0:03:32.560 without it being a government. Well, it was a government. 0:03:32.560 --> 0:03:34.440 It's a form of government. It's also a form of 0:03:34.480 --> 0:03:38.080 economics to feudalism, right, yeah, feudalism. Right. So Charlotte is 0:03:38.160 --> 0:03:41.000 um here or Charlemagne Charlomi is m Charlot. That was 0:03:41.040 --> 0:03:43.880 the original name and then he's like, oh, that's just 0:03:43.960 --> 0:03:48.440 too vain. Let's call it um. Charlemagne was a Frankish king, 0:03:48.600 --> 0:03:52.840 right and he um, he had just a bunch of land. 0:03:52.880 --> 0:03:55.080 I guess that he conquered or he just said, hey, 0:03:55.120 --> 0:03:58.200 this is mine. This land is my land, not this 0:03:58.320 --> 0:04:02.640 land is your land, right uh. And he since he 0:04:02.720 --> 0:04:05.560 lacked the central government, he said, hey, you're a buddy 0:04:05.560 --> 0:04:08.080 of mine, you're an ally. I trust you. You're dead 0:04:08.080 --> 0:04:11.560 and I fought in the war together. Um, here's some land. 0:04:11.800 --> 0:04:14.960 It's yours, but you owe me big time for that land. 0:04:15.480 --> 0:04:18.440 And this is the basis of feudalism. One person dolls outland, 0:04:18.480 --> 0:04:24.640 the king, the ruler dolls outland to the secondary ruling class, nobility, 0:04:24.800 --> 0:04:28.760 and that's their land, and in return they pay for 0:04:29.080 --> 0:04:33.440 the land through military service generally protection basically. And then 0:04:33.839 --> 0:04:38.280 one rung down below nobility is the surf or or 0:04:38.360 --> 0:04:42.920 peasant class, and they're attached to the land. They're essentially slaves. 0:04:43.320 --> 0:04:46.919 They got the short end of the stick, they definitely did. So. Um, 0:04:47.200 --> 0:04:50.760 they pay for their land that the nobilities doled out 0:04:50.800 --> 0:04:54.920 to them. So it's subdivided even further by giving their 0:04:54.960 --> 0:04:58.479 the nobleman that they serve or vassal I believe they're 0:04:58.480 --> 0:05:04.120 also called um food or crops or goods. Right, yeah, 0:05:04.160 --> 0:05:06.520 so that's how they paid for their land. But they 0:05:06.520 --> 0:05:09.240 were really they didn't have much of a choice, right, 0:05:09.560 --> 0:05:14.920 And uh, the funderalism worked because Charlemagne is what He's 0:05:14.960 --> 0:05:18.159 able to keep all of this land by giving it 0:05:18.240 --> 0:05:20.880 to his friends, the fists, who are going to yeah 0:05:20.880 --> 0:05:23.080 that's the land, right, who are going to protect it 0:05:23.120 --> 0:05:27.120 against foreign invaders because it's theirs, but really it's Charlottaagne's. Well, yeah, 0:05:27.160 --> 0:05:31.200 and then the vassals, the knights, they wanted to protect 0:05:31.279 --> 0:05:34.240 the serfs because they wanted to you know, the the 0:05:34.400 --> 0:05:36.240 knights made most of their dough from what I could 0:05:36.240 --> 0:05:40.080 see by their land ownership and farming, and we'll get 0:05:40.120 --> 0:05:42.520 into other ways they made money too, but they wanted 0:05:42.560 --> 0:05:46.800 to protect their dudes so they could, you know, prosper well. 0:05:46.800 --> 0:05:49.680 Not only that a knight could make money by serving 0:05:50.760 --> 0:05:54.960 in the stead or the service of the noble person 0:05:55.320 --> 0:05:58.240 that is paying them, because you had to. You you 0:05:58.320 --> 0:06:01.920 paid for your land through military was either directly by 0:06:01.960 --> 0:06:04.480 yourself or by paying somebody else to do it for you, 0:06:05.240 --> 0:06:08.279 or by producing land and the feudal system did away 0:06:08.320 --> 0:06:13.200 with um, the middle class and common the commons, common land. 0:06:13.600 --> 0:06:15.520 It just did away with it. Because Charlotte Magne was like, 0:06:15.560 --> 0:06:19.039 this is mine and you work for me now and 0:06:19.040 --> 0:06:20.840 it's sort of yours, but it's really kind of mine. 0:06:21.000 --> 0:06:25.120 But in return there was that social contract which um 0:06:25.320 --> 0:06:31.400 led to basically trading freedom for protection, which is the 0:06:31.440 --> 0:06:35.080 basis of government today. Think about it. So the Nights 0:06:35.080 --> 0:06:40.640 were born out of that, right, Chuck, Yes, sir, pretty much. Um. Well, 0:06:40.680 --> 0:06:43.560 what it did too was with feudalism, you could it 0:06:43.640 --> 0:06:45.960 gave you in a time of chaos. It gave you 0:06:46.279 --> 0:06:48.720 a path like a career path almost in a way 0:06:48.760 --> 0:06:51.400 that you could advance in life if you wanted to. Yeah, 0:06:51.440 --> 0:06:57.320 because part of feudalism was the land grant um was bestowed, 0:06:58.200 --> 0:07:01.200 it was passed down through the family lawn, and they 0:07:01.279 --> 0:07:03.280 just decided to do that. There was no over any 0:07:03.320 --> 0:07:05.040 part of feudalism where it's like, well we're going to 0:07:05.120 --> 0:07:08.240 set it up like this kind of evolved so a 0:07:08.360 --> 0:07:10.880 landowner could pass it to his oldest son, but he 0:07:10.960 --> 0:07:13.040 may have more than one son, and the other sons 0:07:13.080 --> 0:07:15.320 like I want to be rich too, so I'm gonna 0:07:15.360 --> 0:07:19.640 go become a night, Yes, exactly right, and nights were not. Uh, 0:07:19.760 --> 0:07:23.320 you weren't born into knighthood. You were born into being 0:07:23.560 --> 0:07:27.640 ultimately a a page and then later on a squire. 0:07:28.040 --> 0:07:30.840 But you had to earn your knighthood for right. Yeah. 0:07:31.240 --> 0:07:33.880 Um yeah, if you if your dad was a night, 0:07:33.920 --> 0:07:37.480 you were automatically a page. But poor people could also 0:07:37.560 --> 0:07:43.000 conceivably become pages themselves, right, Yes, apparently I didn't even 0:07:43.000 --> 0:07:45.400 see A Night's Tale. You didn't know, did you. It 0:07:45.480 --> 0:07:51.440 was this weird anachronism years and everything, and it was 0:07:51.640 --> 0:07:54.080 it was weird, but it was pretty cool movie. Paul 0:07:54.080 --> 0:07:57.560 Bettany was in it. Um, I like that some other 0:07:57.600 --> 0:08:01.720 guy who you'd recognize who was Steve the Pirate um Dodgeball. Yeah, 0:08:01.760 --> 0:08:03.560 I know that guy, he was in it, and then 0:08:03.600 --> 0:08:06.920 this other dude and then that another guy. Yeah, and 0:08:07.040 --> 0:08:09.440 that girl r I p Heath Ledger by the way. 0:08:09.560 --> 0:08:13.920 Oh yeah, really that's a big one. Uh. So, like 0:08:14.000 --> 0:08:16.400 we said, you were, you're automatically a page and basically 0:08:16.480 --> 0:08:19.200 up until the age of about seven, you were just 0:08:19.280 --> 0:08:21.480 sort of doated on by the women at the castle 0:08:22.200 --> 0:08:26.600 taking care of exactly. And then when you became seven, 0:08:26.840 --> 0:08:30.040 they moved you to another house with another lord, and 0:08:30.080 --> 0:08:31.680 you were all of a sudden a page and you 0:08:31.680 --> 0:08:34.599 were taught how to hunt and um, sort of the 0:08:34.640 --> 0:08:37.760 beginnings of being taught how to fight. You were schooled 0:08:37.760 --> 0:08:40.559 by the monks. Uh in you know school does in 0:08:40.880 --> 0:08:43.760 reading and writing, not they schooled you, although they may 0:08:43.760 --> 0:08:47.280 have done that, dude. Sure and uh that's basically where 0:08:47.280 --> 0:08:50.040 they got their their start in this whole quest to 0:08:50.080 --> 0:08:51.800 become a knight. Yeah, and you were saying that at 0:08:51.800 --> 0:08:55.640 about age seven you were conscripted or given to another 0:08:55.720 --> 0:08:57.640 house and usually it was a friend of the family 0:08:57.720 --> 0:09:00.720 or a relative who was a knight. Um, and that 0:09:00.800 --> 0:09:04.319 was about age seven. So that's where the word night 0:09:04.480 --> 0:09:08.080 comes from. It's an old Anglo Saxon word nicked, I 0:09:08.160 --> 0:09:11.280 believe for boy you didn't know how to pronounce. There's 0:09:11.280 --> 0:09:14.960 a lot of letters in it's being said C N 0:09:15.040 --> 0:09:19.480 I H T knit yes, weird Nit that's chaucer. Sure, 0:09:20.040 --> 0:09:22.640 um and also chuck. I found out in researching this 0:09:22.760 --> 0:09:26.760 article that the German word for night is writtter, which 0:09:26.800 --> 0:09:29.840 is literally writer. So the name of the TV show 0:09:29.960 --> 0:09:35.040 night Writer was redundant interesting writer writer or night night 0:09:35.320 --> 0:09:41.040 and the Germans love Hasselhoff. It all makes sense, that's crazy, alright. 0:09:41.080 --> 0:09:44.560 So after age seven, the kid became a page, and 0:09:44.640 --> 0:09:49.959 basically the page was the little gopher for the knight's house. Right. 0:09:50.200 --> 0:09:53.400 In addition to being trained, he also just basically did 0:09:53.440 --> 0:09:56.120 whatever he was supposed to do. And then around the 0:09:56.120 --> 0:10:00.120 time he turned fourteen, he was eligible to become an 0:10:00.280 --> 0:10:04.400 esquire or squire, and his responsibilities and training became much 0:10:04.440 --> 0:10:07.120 more specific. Right, Yeah, I mean you were really a 0:10:07.120 --> 0:10:09.520 houseboy at this point. There's a lot of work that 0:10:09.520 --> 0:10:12.760 went into like fourteen years of of work, or I 0:10:12.760 --> 0:10:15.839 get the feeling. From from page to squire was a 0:10:15.840 --> 0:10:18.800 little more learning, but then from squire to night was 0:10:18.840 --> 0:10:23.200 when the rubber meets the road. Yes it was not 0:10:23.280 --> 0:10:25.440 Rubbert or Rhodes, but you know what I mean, there 0:10:25.480 --> 0:10:28.480 were trails, trails. That's where the hoof met the trail. 0:10:28.760 --> 0:10:32.440 How's that? So they became a squire at fourteen, and 0:10:32.480 --> 0:10:36.280 that's um. They had a little ceremony, a religious ceremony 0:10:36.320 --> 0:10:38.520 where you get your sword, which is pretty big deal 0:10:38.559 --> 0:10:42.679 at the time, I'm sure, Um, and you basically become 0:10:42.679 --> 0:10:47.240 a houseboy there. Each squire had a different job specific 0:10:47.320 --> 0:10:49.960 to the castle. Can you guess which squire I would 0:10:50.000 --> 0:10:51.960 have wanted to be. Well, here, let's go through him 0:10:51.960 --> 0:10:53.760 and let's see if maybe I wish we could do 0:10:53.840 --> 0:10:57.360 instant voting. But say in your heads, people out there listening, 0:10:57.440 --> 0:10:59.160 what you think Josh would have been. You have a 0:10:59.200 --> 0:11:02.280 squire of the boy and that was the personal servant. 0:11:02.440 --> 0:11:04.480 I get the feeling. They were probably probably the most 0:11:04.480 --> 0:11:08.080 trusted uh squire of the chamber. And they attended to 0:11:08.080 --> 0:11:10.840 the rooms. That was sort of like I guess the maid. 0:11:11.559 --> 0:11:15.240 That's that's the worst squire job. The housekeeper, the carving. 0:11:15.760 --> 0:11:19.200 The carving squire or table squire carved the meat at 0:11:19.240 --> 0:11:23.240 the banquet tables, which at catering companies nowadays, the like 0:11:23.360 --> 0:11:27.920 the most stoned dude is the table squire, also known 0:11:27.960 --> 0:11:30.760 as the protector of the roast beef, Yes, protector of 0:11:30.760 --> 0:11:33.560 the roast beef. The squire of the wines managed the 0:11:33.559 --> 0:11:36.079 wine seller. They'd be a good gig. Squire of the 0:11:36.120 --> 0:11:38.320 pantry took care of the food and make sure the 0:11:38.320 --> 0:11:41.280 pantry was stocked with canned goods and peanut butter and 0:11:41.320 --> 0:11:44.200 all the good stuff that knights loved to eat. Uh 0:11:44.280 --> 0:11:46.800 Squire the arms, of course, maintained the armament and the 0:11:46.800 --> 0:11:49.240 swords and all that kind of stuff in the Squire 0:11:49.240 --> 0:11:54.120 of Honor assisted the Lord and ceremonies and feasts. Which 0:11:54.160 --> 0:11:57.320 one are you? I think that anybody who's listened to 0:11:57.400 --> 0:11:59.160 us more than once or twice could tell you. I 0:11:59.160 --> 0:12:01.200 would like to be the fire of the wines, Squire 0:12:01.240 --> 0:12:03.480 the wines. I'd probably be the squire of the pantry, 0:12:03.520 --> 0:12:05.440 because I'm into cooking and stuff well like you, and 0:12:05.440 --> 0:12:07.640 I would be like, hey, man, I'll slide you one 0:12:07.640 --> 0:12:10.080 of these, if some of that, give me a bottle 0:12:10.120 --> 0:12:12.040 of that wine, I'll give you some roast beef. Or 0:12:12.040 --> 0:12:14.719 maybe i'd be the carving dude that's cool at the 0:12:14.760 --> 0:12:18.160 carving station kind or if they had an omelet station, 0:12:18.200 --> 0:12:23.480 I'd like to do that, the squire of the omelet stage. 0:12:24.200 --> 0:12:28.080 Nice chuck so um. From hanging out with the at 0:12:28.120 --> 0:12:30.640 these feasts and carving the roast beef and making the 0:12:30.679 --> 0:12:34.640 omelets and tending the wine that the the squire was 0:12:34.720 --> 0:12:39.840 also being indoctrinated into um, a higher lifestyle, learn how 0:12:39.840 --> 0:12:43.720 to how to carry himself in in in situations like 0:12:43.840 --> 0:12:48.079 feasts and um festivals and all this stuff. Right, they 0:12:48.160 --> 0:12:50.800 learned how to be really awful and drink too much 0:12:50.840 --> 0:12:55.520 to excess and pillage. Basically pretty much. It wasn't as 0:12:55.640 --> 0:12:58.600 as you know, lofty as it seems I would imagine. No, 0:12:58.720 --> 0:13:00.679 it's been um night who it? I guess we should 0:13:00.679 --> 0:13:04.600 probably say has been romanticized almost entirely through literature that 0:13:04.679 --> 0:13:09.280 big time actually originated in the thirteenth century, I believe it, 0:13:09.400 --> 0:13:12.439 like Whillace is going on, they started to romanticize kind 0:13:12.440 --> 0:13:14.800 of like Billy the Kids stories that were read by 0:13:14.800 --> 0:13:18.120 the youngsters and east in the nineteenth century, the little 0:13:18.120 --> 0:13:21.240 serial books. Alright, so what you're doing is you're you're 0:13:21.320 --> 0:13:23.000 learning all these things, like you said, learning how to 0:13:23.040 --> 0:13:26.160 be a bad person. Actually that's not true. Do you 0:13:26.160 --> 0:13:28.680 don't want to offend the knights in the nights? Elton 0:13:28.760 --> 0:13:32.560 John will have your head. But they also learned they 0:13:32.600 --> 0:13:34.640 started to do a little bit more training in the 0:13:34.679 --> 0:13:37.680 martial arts of of night dum um, like how to 0:13:37.880 --> 0:13:40.600 handle and ride horses? How does strike someone over the 0:13:40.640 --> 0:13:43.120 head with a heavy hammer? Yeah, with a heavy hammer. 0:13:43.160 --> 0:13:45.320 They started wearing the chainmail to get used to like 0:13:45.360 --> 0:13:47.080 walking around and that kind of stuff and all the 0:13:47.080 --> 0:13:50.880 weight um and I looked this up, chuck um chainmail 0:13:50.920 --> 0:13:55.800 and plainmail weighed about the same pounds, which seems like 0:13:55.840 --> 0:13:59.680 a lot, but it's about half of what the average 0:13:59.720 --> 0:14:03.720 foot soldier in the U. S. Army today carries. An 0:14:03.720 --> 0:14:08.200 average rifleman carries about nine pounds of gear. Yeah, but 0:14:08.280 --> 0:14:10.959 did the Knights carry stuff in addition to just know 0:14:11.080 --> 0:14:15.440 they had squires? Another another duty of the squire was 0:14:15.520 --> 0:14:19.320 when the night went into battle um or tournament, he right, 0:14:19.480 --> 0:14:22.760 but in battle specifically he went with him, and if 0:14:22.760 --> 0:14:26.880 the night fell, he was expected to to basically aid 0:14:26.960 --> 0:14:30.920 and protect the night as he got up. And actually, 0:14:30.960 --> 0:14:32.400 we should just since you mentioned that, we should go 0:14:32.400 --> 0:14:34.680 ahead and point out that you could become an instant 0:14:34.800 --> 0:14:38.560 night on the battlefield. And I get the impression that 0:14:38.640 --> 0:14:41.360 if you saved your night's bacon, you might have a 0:14:41.400 --> 0:14:43.800 good chance of just being knighted right there on the battlefield. Right, 0:14:43.800 --> 0:14:47.280 A night was bestowed with the the ability to invest 0:14:47.360 --> 0:14:51.760 knighthood into a squire under circumstances like that. But for 0:14:51.760 --> 0:14:55.440 the most part they followed a um a process right 0:14:55.880 --> 0:14:58.880 where once you turned about twenty one, if you'd proven 0:14:58.920 --> 0:15:01.680 yourself a decent square fire, if you weren't just completely 0:15:02.120 --> 0:15:05.480 you know, fat from being inspired the panther, your your 0:15:05.560 --> 0:15:07.840 liver given out from being the squire of the wine 0:15:08.040 --> 0:15:11.200 right right, Um, you could become a night right and 0:15:11.320 --> 0:15:15.000 usually this took place during an event like a larger 0:15:15.040 --> 0:15:18.680 event like the Christmas or Easter feast. Yeah, a nobleman's 0:15:18.680 --> 0:15:21.120 wedding or festival or something like that. Yeah, and you 0:15:21.120 --> 0:15:27.160 could be bestowed knighthood by other nights, kings, nobles, clergy. 0:15:27.320 --> 0:15:29.760 And I get the impression that the most favorite way 0:15:29.800 --> 0:15:32.440 if your father was a knight, he might do the 0:15:32.760 --> 0:15:36.320 do the double tap, not the double tap of the 0:15:36.360 --> 0:15:40.000 swat teams and the delta force, but the sword on 0:15:40.200 --> 0:15:43.320 either side of the head tap on the shoulder. So 0:15:43.440 --> 0:15:46.360 this the the squire would would sit up for a 0:15:46.520 --> 0:15:52.240 night praying right and Um. When he was finally knighted, 0:15:52.280 --> 0:15:57.560 he would take an oath that usually included several points right. Um. 0:15:57.600 --> 0:16:02.360 Defending a lady, it's a big one, speaking only the truth. Um. 0:16:02.400 --> 0:16:04.920 Being loyal to his lord. That's a huge part of 0:16:04.920 --> 0:16:08.920 the feudal system. Um. Being devoted to the church. That 0:16:09.000 --> 0:16:11.320 was also that came to be a huge part of 0:16:11.560 --> 0:16:15.880 being a night with the crusades. Yeah, Um, defending the poor, 0:16:16.320 --> 0:16:21.440 being charitable, defending the helpless, being brave, and then getting 0:16:21.680 --> 0:16:23.960 more specific rules to at least cracked me up a 0:16:24.000 --> 0:16:26.600 little bit, like um, fighting only one person at a time, 0:16:27.240 --> 0:16:30.320 never avoiding a dangerous path out of fear. See, I 0:16:30.360 --> 0:16:32.360 would have failed that one. It would have been like, 0:16:32.440 --> 0:16:34.800 that path looks a lot safer to me, so let's 0:16:34.800 --> 0:16:37.120 go that way. That seems like a smart thing to do, 0:16:37.240 --> 0:16:40.560 not a cowardly thing. Right. That's just me. But if you, 0:16:40.640 --> 0:16:42.880 if you framed it like that, you could be like, well, 0:16:42.920 --> 0:16:45.120 I didn't avoid that path out of fear. I avoided 0:16:45.160 --> 0:16:49.200 it because out of intelligence, Yes, exactly. Um. Never taking 0:16:49.240 --> 0:16:51.720 off your armor during a quest except to sleep, I 0:16:51.760 --> 0:16:54.280 would that'd be such a drag. It would be. Can 0:16:54.280 --> 0:16:56.920 you imagine, Like you get back after the battle and 0:16:56.960 --> 0:16:59.840 you're kicking it around the campfire and all you want 0:16:59.880 --> 0:17:02.920 to do is take off your armor and relax. But 0:17:03.000 --> 0:17:05.280 then the guy who does next to you takes an 0:17:05.400 --> 0:17:07.520 arrow in his back and you're like, man, I'm glad 0:17:07.560 --> 0:17:10.280 I kept my armor on while you're beating someone in 0:17:10.320 --> 0:17:13.440 with the war hammer. That's what you're thinking. Um. There's 0:17:13.480 --> 0:17:17.680 also this one kind of got me because I would 0:17:17.680 --> 0:17:19.720 just want to go to sleep, and if I didn't 0:17:19.800 --> 0:17:23.040 feel like talking. I wouldn't want to talk. But apparently 0:17:23.080 --> 0:17:26.399 one of the oaths that a night took was to um. 0:17:26.480 --> 0:17:28.520 Upon returning from a quest or a journey, or a 0:17:28.560 --> 0:17:32.880 battle or something, he would entertain his the person he 0:17:32.960 --> 0:17:37.720 was um conscripted to with with his stories. See, i'd 0:17:37.720 --> 0:17:40.359 be great at that part. You definitely would. We should. 0:17:40.400 --> 0:17:41.960 I just I'd just be like, I don't feel like 0:17:42.000 --> 0:17:43.960 doing this, so I'm gonna I'm not gonna do this. 0:17:44.280 --> 0:17:46.880 We should call this one why Chuck and Josh would 0:17:46.880 --> 0:17:49.480 be horrible nights? I think you'd be a good night. 0:17:49.800 --> 0:17:53.240 Oh really sure, I'd be a good uh pantry tender. 0:17:53.240 --> 0:17:55.280 And that's about it? What was it? What was the 0:17:55.359 --> 0:17:58.119 last one? There? The one that uh, if he was 0:17:58.200 --> 0:18:01.359 taking prisoner, he would give up arms and horse to 0:18:01.440 --> 0:18:04.439 the opponent and never fight the opponent again without the 0:18:04.440 --> 0:18:07.159 opponent's consent. Yeah, that's I wouldn't want to fight that 0:18:07.160 --> 0:18:12.960 opponent again if they beat me down. You wouldn't want, like, See, 0:18:12.960 --> 0:18:15.000 that's why i'd be a bad night. Check. Revenge makes 0:18:15.040 --> 0:18:17.359 the world go around you. Who are you to buck 0:18:17.440 --> 0:18:21.040 that trend? That's true, And once you were indoctrinated, you 0:18:21.040 --> 0:18:22.920 would get your sword, like I said, and then you 0:18:22.960 --> 0:18:27.280 would also finally get your armor and your horse, and 0:18:27.400 --> 0:18:30.080 right away they would kind of throw you into things 0:18:30.720 --> 0:18:36.040 in the form of demonstrating your abilities. Not on the battlefield, no, 0:18:36.359 --> 0:18:38.720 you you kind of hop on a horse. I imagine 0:18:38.760 --> 0:18:42.639 this to be like, um, you know, some like hormoned 0:18:42.720 --> 0:18:46.280 up kid. It's like, yeah, man, watch this, and it's 0:18:46.359 --> 0:18:48.920 like starts beating up on like other little kids who 0:18:49.400 --> 0:18:53.120 are still squires, you know that in front of everybody. Yeah, 0:18:53.160 --> 0:18:56.400 except now he's got a real sword. Um. And also, chuck, 0:18:56.440 --> 0:19:00.440 we should say those oaths that the night took yeah, 0:19:00.760 --> 0:19:03.960 um basically made up the code of Chivalry, which was 0:19:04.440 --> 0:19:08.320 established um basically because knights were the only ones who 0:19:08.320 --> 0:19:13.600 were armed, who were capable of, um, you know, battling 0:19:13.600 --> 0:19:18.800 on horseback and could just completely reek havoc any anywhere 0:19:18.840 --> 0:19:22.000 they wanted to. So the code of chivalry, especially defending 0:19:22.000 --> 0:19:25.000 the poor in the week. They didn't kill the poor 0:19:25.000 --> 0:19:27.320 in the week, right, or take their stuff or whatever. 0:19:27.400 --> 0:19:31.400 So this code of Chivalry was intended to keep these um, 0:19:31.440 --> 0:19:36.439 comparatively powerful people from just doing whatever they wanted. That 0:19:36.520 --> 0:19:40.399 was ideal, it didn't always work out. Like knights also 0:19:40.560 --> 0:19:43.600 generally pillaged and plundered and took whatever they wanted and 0:19:43.680 --> 0:19:47.720 ignored the chivalric code, which it comes from the French 0:19:47.720 --> 0:19:54.680 were josh chevalry, which means chivalry. Skills to handle a 0:19:54.720 --> 0:19:57.480 horse is actually what it means. Yeah, and originally that's 0:19:57.520 --> 0:20:00.239 what knights were, just like remember the samurai, they were 0:20:00.280 --> 0:20:03.440 originally horsemen. Um, a lot of commonalities between these two. 0:20:03.440 --> 0:20:05.199 Actually they Yeah, they both went the way of the 0:20:05.240 --> 0:20:08.640 dinosaur because of gunpowder, which we'll get to. Um, there's 0:20:08.680 --> 0:20:11.040 a spoiler, but you can you can also you can 0:20:11.080 --> 0:20:16.080 make the case that, um, the fall of the Roman Empire, feudalism, 0:20:16.160 --> 0:20:20.960 and the invention of the stirrup all allowed knighthood to develop. 0:20:21.600 --> 0:20:23.679 The stirrup showed up in the eighth century, and it 0:20:23.720 --> 0:20:28.920 allowed stability while you're staying on a horse and lancing somebody. Well, 0:20:28.960 --> 0:20:30.560 and imagine with all the armor and everything too. It 0:20:30.600 --> 0:20:32.720 probably helped to get up on the horse to begin with. 0:20:32.920 --> 0:20:35.359 But that was pretty much like if you could, if 0:20:35.359 --> 0:20:37.840 you could fight somebody on a horse, you were a knight. 0:20:37.960 --> 0:20:43.080 Before all of this tradition was dressed alongside of knighthood, 0:20:43.200 --> 0:20:46.639 the mounted soldiers. Essentially what a knight was should we 0:20:46.680 --> 0:20:52.240 talk about weapons? Well, yeah, I just mentioned the lance, right. Yeah. 0:20:52.280 --> 0:20:56.119 The lance was basically like a spear earlier on, and 0:20:56.160 --> 0:21:00.240 then later on it developed the the handguard, the in 0:21:00.440 --> 0:21:03.040 a metal tip on the end of it, and that 0:21:03.119 --> 0:21:04.560 was you know, if you were on a mounted horse, 0:21:05.000 --> 0:21:07.000 you wanted something long so you could engage in battle 0:21:07.000 --> 0:21:09.959 without getting down from the horse. Then they had their 0:21:09.960 --> 0:21:15.320 sword double edged carbon Uh what kind of carbon steel? Yeah, 0:21:15.359 --> 0:21:18.040 but usually light on the carbon steel. Light on the 0:21:18.040 --> 0:21:21.880 carbon steel, heavy on the ketchup. Uh. And they had 0:21:21.920 --> 0:21:25.119 the cross guard, hilt and the pommel, which you know 0:21:25.160 --> 0:21:29.159 you've all seen excalibirds, that classic looking sword, very large, 0:21:29.359 --> 0:21:31.800 I would imagine, pretty heavy. I never picked one up, 0:21:32.480 --> 0:21:34.479 and they you know, depending on how much money you 0:21:34.480 --> 0:21:38.040 had determined how fancy your sword was. Yeah, it could 0:21:38.119 --> 0:21:42.400 have like a prayer inscribed to nature or your name. Yeah, 0:21:43.080 --> 0:21:45.960 found returned to Josh Clark. Can't you see it? Like 0:21:46.080 --> 0:21:50.640 pinned to like your your plate mail, your gauntlet. Um 0:21:50.720 --> 0:21:53.800 and and uh so the sword in the lance where 0:21:53.800 --> 0:21:56.920 the two main weapons, right, Yeah, you've talked about the 0:21:56.960 --> 0:21:59.359 warhammer a couple of times. I imagine that's probably what 0:21:59.400 --> 0:22:00.960 you would have liked. Did you look out the war 0:22:01.000 --> 0:22:04.040 hammer on Google Images. Yeah, so it's like they're not 0:22:04.080 --> 0:22:07.320 as big. It's not like Thor's war hammer. It's like 0:22:07.440 --> 0:22:11.800 a tack hammer with the um pointed like the rounded 0:22:11.840 --> 0:22:14.200 curve pointed end on one side and then a hammer 0:22:14.240 --> 0:22:17.160 on the other. And I just imagine like some guy 0:22:17.280 --> 0:22:21.400 in in some sort of male just beating somebody's head 0:22:21.440 --> 0:22:23.400 in with this. I doubt if it was pretty That's 0:22:23.440 --> 0:22:26.760 what the European martial arts amounted to, Like death through 0:22:26.800 --> 0:22:31.480 blunt instruments, Yeah, pretty much. Um, they had access which 0:22:31.600 --> 0:22:36.040 also could slice you up. And the mace the metal Uh, 0:22:36.080 --> 0:22:37.959 it wouldn't then mace the metal ball on the end 0:22:38.000 --> 0:22:41.280 of the chain. That's I think a mace isn't on 0:22:41.320 --> 0:22:44.840 a chain. Morning star is on the chain. If if 0:22:44.880 --> 0:22:49.440 my paladin training serves me, I think the morning Star 0:22:49.800 --> 0:22:54.080 is on the chain. Mace is a pointed ball, just 0:22:54.680 --> 0:22:59.560 stick stick. They thought that. They did think though that. Um, 0:22:59.600 --> 0:23:02.600