Medieval knights are one of those things where the fiction outweighs the facts. Knights served as a part of the aristocracy for most of Europe, far from popular films’ hallowed heroism or comedic ...

The North Atlantic Treaty Organization boasts 31 nations in its ranks, millions of troops from those states, multiple arsenals of nuclear weapons and thousands of tanks. It also features knights in ...

Here’s what you’ll learn when you read this story: Crews in Poland found a 12th century church last year before the discovery of a knight buried around the turn from the 13th to the 14th century. The ...

Becoming a medieval knight was a process that began in childhood. Boys born into noble families were sent away at around age seven to serve as pages in a lord’s household. At fourteen, they became ...

In contemporary literature, the Order of the Knights Templar was the focus of novels by Dan Brown (“The DaVinci Code”), Umberto Eco (“Foucault’s Pendulum”) and Ken Follett (“The Pillars of the Earth”) ...