Knight
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Knight was the term for a social position originating in the Middle Ages denoted by the prefix "Sir" in front of the recipient's given name. They were bound to a code of honour, holding their word as their bond. (TV: The Crusade) The title was only bestowed upon those in the service of the monarch, or who had become favoured in their sights. (TV: Tooth and Claw) Sir Robert de Wensley believed that all good knights served "the king in heaven". (AUDIO: The Doctor's Tale)
In the UK
In the United Kingdom, a knighthood was invested in a ceremony in which the monarch tapped both shoulders of the recipient with a sword. (TV: Tooth and Claw)
Both the Fifth and Tenth Doctors were knighted, by King John (in reality the android Kamelion) in 1215 and Queen Victoria in 1879 respectively. The latter also bestowed the title of "Dame" upon Rose Tyler. (TV: The King's Demons, Tooth and Claw) Brigadier Alistair Gordon Lethbridge-Stewart was knighted by Queen Elizabeth II. (TV: The Poison Sky, PROSE: The Dying Days)
During the Crusades, knights were the primary leaders of the English forces. While fighting Saladin, Richard I of England was frequently surrounded by knights whom he held in high regard. He knighted Ian Chesterton while in Palestine in 1190. (TV: The Crusade)
Knights
Human
- Earl of Leicester
- Orcini
- Gilbert and Sullivan
- Lancelot
- Ancelyn
- Mordred
- Knight Commander
- :Category:British knights
- Roland of Brittany
- Yavuz
- Himesor
- Araboam
- Zaitabor
- Mulberry
- Godric
- Reynald of Marseille
- Bedevere
- Galahad
- Gawain
- Agravaine
- Moses of Tyre
- Lee Marks
- Gilles Estram
- Robert Dudley
- Stephan Palbury
- Brent Cleever
- John Hart
- Henry Felton
- Oswald Holland
- Donna
- Henri d'Arrée
- James Gregson
- Colin Thackeray
- Thomas Vaughan
- Clive Reeves
- Boswell Chase
- Knight
- George Harding
- Anna
- Alan Sugar
- Guy de Carnac
- Bron of Westhold
- Randolph Eging
- Theophilus Shepstone
- Avril Fenman
- Red Knight
- Harry Carruthers
- Edryc Dragonsbane
- Alec Douglas-Hodge
- Ian MacGregor
- Jack Fuller
- Malcome Canker
- Edward Scott Cameron
- Nigel Lomax
- Malcolm Ruttsby
- Edward Fanshawe
- Richard Hampden
- Charles Quinn
- Manfred Grayle
- Artillo Brinzo
- Brian de Fillis
British knights
- :Category:English knights
- Isaiah Hardy
- Alistair Gordon Lethbridge-Stewart
- Andrew Williams
- Charles Summer
- Robert MacLeish
- Humphrey Picton
- Reginald Styles
- James Quinlan
- Lydia Kingsley
- Charles Grover
- Giles Walbridge
- George Woods
- Henry Montague
- Paul McCartney
- Alec Douglas-Home
- Toby Kinsella
- John Sudbury
- Alexander Cromwell
- Edward Fulbright
- Charles Warren
- Percival Flint
- Rupert Silverman
- Marmaduke Harrington-Smythe
- Donald Wakefield
- Edward Scrivener
- Francis White
- Francis Dashwood
- Edgar Campbell
- Hugo Destrier
- Geoffrey
- Richard Stevenson
- Barrie Mulle-Heskith
- Andrew Ridgely
- Roger Hornsbury
- Philip Burkiss-Jones
- John Reith
English knights
- Justin of Wells
- Ian Chesterton
- Henry Gordon Jago
- Pete Tyler
- George Litefoot
- Arthur Conan Doyle
- Isaac Newton
- Joseph Mallard
- Reynier de Marun
- William des Preaux
- William de Tornebu
- Robert Muir
- Anne Travers
- Walter Raleigh
- George Hutchinson
- George Hardiman
- Patrick Moore
- Ranulf Fitzwilliam
- Geoffrey de Lacy
- Francis Drake
- George Wallace
- Robert Cecil
- Emily Shaw
- Edward
- Henry
- Rose Tyler
- James Tyrell
- Robert de Wensley
- Ralph
- John Thurloe
- Robert Harney
- Bobby Charlton
- Nicholas Asquin
- Thomas Mapplethorpe
- John Oldcastle
- Amol Rajan
- Henry Morgan
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