Wednesday, March 10, 2010

How to become a knight 101


Children who are to become knights endure many challenges throughout the journey. If a boy is born by a knight they are sent from home to the castle of his kingdom at age seven (7). He is now a page at this stage of becoming a knight. Pages are are to be the personal servants of the lord of the castle. Pages must aid his lord to get dressed and put on armor daily. They are taught to mantain armor and keep equipment ready. Young pre-knights play a variety of training games including wrestling and piggy-backwrestling to help train and are taught many skills like hawking, sword fighting, and jousting. With many secular teachings the young page is also receives religious traing from the chaplain

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