The Ceremony of Medieval Knighthood

A knight was much more than a tap on the shoulder with the flat side of a sword. Here is an overview of a typical medieval knighting ceremony.

The ceremony of knighthood was the last stage in a process that after a man because he was a boy. It was the symbolic end of his exercise of powers on the battlefield and in the courts of the nobility. It was his transition from boy to man and the citizen on royalties. He focused on three important aspects of knighthood: religion, loyalty to the king, and the code of chivalry. On the day before the actual ceremony would be meals and long conversations with knights, clergy, and royalties on the roles and responsibilities of the knights. And the evening before the ceremony the knight would resign only at the chapel and the whole night in prayer and fasting to purify him and prepare him for knighthood.

He wears a white tunic, which symbolizes purity, and more, that he had a red coat, the symbol of royalty. On the morning of the ceremony, he would swim like a symbol of the purity of its new.

During the actual ceremony of the knights receive gifts such as title, a shield, a sword and armor. Each of these gifts had symbolic meaning. The ritual of the ceremony would be consistent with the sponsor of the creation of the knight on both shoulders with a sword as introducing him as "Sir" to the nobility. These ceremonies are often followed by a large banquet.

On the day after the ceremony was often a tournament for the Knights and his colleagues to show their fighting abilities and skills with weapons. The ceremony of knighthood was a highly stylized ritual and ceremony with symbolic meaning.