ST - list of knightly articles

[Elspeth de Forbeys]

> If memory serves me correctly this is pretty close
to a verbatim list from the mid-Victorian era work
called something like 'Le Romaunce du Lancelot'. It
sounds more Victorian certainly than Medieval.

sorry, -E
> From: willow taylor <jonwillowpel at juno.com>
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> I  found  this list in "Romance  of the Feudal
> Chateaux " by  Elizabeth
> W. Champney,1899.  She states  it came from a
> "leading authority". Have
> any of you seen this  list before or heard a mention
> of it in any reading
> you  have done?  I would really  like to document
> this  list. If you know
> someone who be able to tell me where it came from 
> please send it  on.
> The only  hint I have is that the  new knights where
> asked to swear by"in
> the name of God and of St. Michael and St. George."
> 
> Yours Willow de Wisp
> The knights had to swear to twenty-six articles:
> (1) To fear and reverence and serve God religiously,
> and to die rather
> than to renounce Christianity;
> (2) to serve and fight for their King and country;
> (3) to uphold the rights of the weaker, such as
> widows, orphans, and
> damsels;
> (4) that they should not injure anyone maliciously,
> or take what was
> another's, but rather do battle with those that did
> so;
> (5) that greed, pay, or profit should never
> constrain them to any deed,
> but only glory and virtue;
> (6) that they would fight for the common weal;
> (7) that they would obey their generals;
> (8) that they would guard the honour of their
> country;
> (9) that they would never fight in companies against
> one, and that they
> would eschew all tricks and artifices;
> (10) that they would wear but one sword unless they
> had to fight against
> two or more;
> (11) that in tourney they would never use the point
> of their swords;
> (12) that being taken prisoner in a tourney they
> would be bound on their
> faith and honour to perform in every point the
> condition of capture,
> besides being bound to give up to the victors their
> arms and horses and
> being disabled from fighting in war without their
> leave;
> (13) that they would keep faith inviolably with all
> the world;
> (14) that they would love and succour one another;
> (15) that having made a vow to go any quest they
> would never put off
> their arms save for the night's rest;
> (16) that in its pursuit they would not shun bad
> roads or perils;
> (17) that they would never take wages from a foreign
> prince;
> (18) that in command of troops they would never
> suffer violence to be
> done;
> (19) that in the escort of dame or damsel they would
> save her from all
> danger or insult or die in the attempt;
> (20) that they would never offer violence to dame or
> damsel though they
> had won her by deed of arms;
> (21) that being challenged to equal combat, they
> would never refuse,
> without wound or sickness or other reasonable
> hindrance;
> (22) that having undertaken any enterprise they
> would devote to it night
> and day unless called away by King or country;
> (23) that having made a vow to acquire any honour
> they would not draw
> back without having attained either it or its
> equivalent;
> ( 24) that having become prisoners in fair warfare
> they would pay to the
> uttermost the promised ransom or return to prison at
> the day and hour
> agreed upon, on pain of being proclaimed infamous
> and perjured;
> (25) that on returning to the court of their
> sovereign they would render
> a true account of their adventures, even though they
> had been worsted, to
> the King and the registrar of their order, on pain
> of being deprived of
> the order of knighthood;
> (26) that above all things they would be faithful,
> courteous, humble, and
> never wanting to their word for any harm or loss
> that might accrue to
> them.
> 
> 
> Sincerely,
> Franchesca Havas
> McKinney, Texas
> 
> 
>
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yours in service,
Lady Elspeth de Forbeys
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