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A player starts off with a king, a queen, eight pawns, and two each of bishops, knights and rooks.
The drawbridge was lowered and the four knights rode into the gatehouse and through the curtain wall of the castle.
Of course, when you are a blonde bombshell, there are bound to be white knights coming out of the old-world woodwork.
Like nurses they are white knights in a society over-dominated by people obsessed purely with their own needs.
Under the moonlight, a dozen of knights were guarding by the drawbridge, which was the only exit out of the curtain wall surrounding the castle.
Whatever happened to knights being able to bear a little hardship, I'd like to know?
History tells us that these knights were wiped out in 1307, when they were arrested to a man on a charge of heresy and put to the sword.
A lot of the artists who designed the knights coat of arms often used imaginary animals like the basilisk, dragon, unicorn, etc.
Much to my regret, both the Confucians and the Mohists have neglected to record the exploits of the baseborn knights.
There are knights and baronets among them, men with prosperity and substantial income.
A number of nobles, knights and aldermen of Mechelen were called upon to witness and put their seal to the legal document.
These two knights of the realm are mirror images, roughly the same age and both enduring embodiments of masculinity.
In addition the crusaders used light cavalry and horse archers in large numbers to harass the enemy, to scout, and to supplement the knights.
Lord Jonathan entered the castle along with the other knights and soldiers who marched in unison behind them.
A dozen French notables, including the Constable of France, died, together with perhaps 1,500 knights and 4,500 men-at-arms.
Two military knights, in uniforms of scarlet swallowtail coats with black arm bands, stood in solemn vigil, guarding the Princess's coffin.
The Tapestry shows Norman knights and English soldiers wearing identical mailed hauberks or byrnies.
He found two knights charging at Mandeera, but they too, suffered from the magician's tricks.
The four knights tried to drag him outside, to avoid aggravating their sacrilege by defiling the sanctuary.
Had Arthur considered the pain that he should cause his knights, lords, nobles, wife?
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There are nearly 200 knights, lords, and their ladies milling about, conversing, boasting, laughing.
Sure, the story of King Arthur is a myth, but this is how Lancelot came to be one of the knights of the Round Table.
The hall is like an armoury, with suits of armours waiting as if for medieval knights.
At the Ashby tournament, attended by Prince John, tents accommodated participating knights, plus armourers and farriers.
For example, during the Middle Ages in Europe, knights dressed in suits of armor and rode into battle on powerful horses.
At Falkirk, in more open ground than at Stirling, the English knights and archers were devastating.
In the summer of 1306, bishops and barons and knights from all around England left their country manors and villages and journeyed to London.
Most of the barons and lords that went up against Arthur, and lost, ended up as his knights and governing heads.
In the center of the crowds of barons and knights under the king, was Johnathan Steevens.
Dukes, duchesses, and barons made up the nobility, while the gentry consisted of knights and lords.
He drew up his knights and his two thousand foot soldiers in a line outside the city.
Before the time of greedy kings, gallant knights, and courtly love, there was a time when woodland creatures still roamed the earth.
Knights of both kingdoms clashed for what seemed like half a day, and in the end, the remaining Sunfall knights fell back and retreated.
A chorus line of dancing divas and knights, flatulent Frenchmen, killer rabbits and one legless knight are featured.
He slew 27 dragons, 15 amphisbaenas, and 3 sorceresses in whose invisible dungeons many knights errant were kept prisoner.
Chandelor wanted his so-called knights to have honor, a moral code of ethics, things with which tradition would expect.
Do not be afraid of disappearing into a fantasy land of castles, maidens and jousting knights for an hour or two.
A few Italians are hereditary knights bachelor, forming a kind of Italian baronetage.
However, most knights were not members of an order at all, but knights bachelor.
However, the true attitude of these knights of the road was explained by one cabbie last week.
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Counts, knights, barons and marquesses gathered in the guilded ballroom of the hotel to mark the focal event of the aristocratic social calendar.
In the 13th cent., however, this became the responsibility of each sheriff and two knights of the shire.
Cumberland, like the other counties, sent two knights of the shire to Parliament.
By November, Godfrey could command only about three hundred knights and a few thousand foot soldiers.
In 1118 he invaded Egypt, with a tiny army of only 216 knights and 400 foot soldiers.
The count of that land, Theobald, hosted a grand event that was attended by knights from all over northern France.
Heraldry originated in medieval warfare and tournaments when it was necessary to identify knights who were completely covered in armour.
After a series of exchanges, he was left with 2 rooks and 6 pawns versus a rook, 2 knights and 5 pawns for Polgar.
The officers were drawn from citizens who were enrolled as patricians of senatorial rank or equestrians, also known as knights.
The Order of the Knights Templar was formed during the crusades when many knights and squires set out for the Holy Land.
They all had expensive appointments and untold luxuries for the knights, lords, dukes and princes who served the king.
The military orders, and the knights under King John put up a valiant defense and saved what they could of the army.
The feudal system meant that knights had to provide the king with soldiers when the king demanded them.
When they rode past their king, knights raised their visors to identify themselves.
Arthur uses the Grail to help his knights focus on something good, rather than fighting amongst themselves.
Enough supplies were stored to last 4,000 soldiers and 300 knights with their horses, equipment and provisions for up to a five-year siege.
Pages helped arm and maintain the knights of medieval Europe, while drummer boys were a requisite part of any 18th century army.
No knights in shining armour, medieval trappings or masses of red hair are necessary for Knightly to express a Pre-Raphaelite aesthetic.
The barons mobilized every man they could and put six hundred knights into the field.
In the medieval ages, knights displayed dainty handkerchiefs given to them by their lady-love.
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The two of them flew towards each other at breakneck speeds, like knights jousting.
When the group of knights had reached the crest of the hill, the view enticed them.
Servants and squires of every sort were running around after their lords and knights, and beautiful couples swept across the dance floor.
There is a medieval theme and entertainment including knights, jousting and brass bands.
This is a less aggressive mix than you might expect for a movie about knights and jousting.
So my idea is that we need these shining knights from the castle to journey forth on a quest.
Three medieval knights set off on their horses on their individual quests to put right all things that have gone wrong.
The knights had amassed a large trove of wealth over the years which led them to be accredited with the invention of modern banking.
Several of the watchmen came down from the towers to confer with the king and his knights inside the castle.
Hearts of oak have become as obsolete as knights in plate armour, and the leviathan protectors of trade are themselves too vulnerable.
The tale is a legend, so who cares if the knights in Excalibur wear suits of plate armor that weren't invented for hundreds of years?
Some knights were cited as wearing mail gloves under their plated gauntlets for added strength.
The knights on the bridge behind were thrown into confusion, panicked, and retreated.
I'm not a great fan of stuffed moose and mediaeval knights in full fig, but Kelvingrove's got the lot.
They had companioned her for a while together, boy and ghost, flanking her like sworn knights.
This is a satisfying variation on the usual fairy tale in which knights compete for the hand of a princess.
The knights are crammed into hot, heavy armor, and they charge at each other clumsily.
The Crusades did manage to reduce the number of quarrelsome and contentious knights in Europe.
Of course, the idea that there really were boy knights fighting in the Middle Ages we now know to be a misconception.
The sound of metal clashing together alerted the group and the knights ran to her aid along with everybody else.
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The frontier lands became an area where chivalrous knights could show their prowess and their achievements be recorded in ballads.
Commoners therefore include knights as well as esquires, gentlemen, serfs, and so on.
She thought that the knights and their chivalrous code had already gone extinct in Europe and from the rest of the world.
Arthur unites the disorganized tribes of Britain into a kingdom ruled by chivalrous, noble knights.
The knights adopted unique designs painted on their shields and on the surcoats covering the armour.
During the Middle Ages, chivalry was a code of brave and courteous conduct for knights.
He would tell them epic tales of noble knights, paladins, warriors, and samurai.
He was also standing among a war party of almost thirty knights, paladins, and mages.
Tales of the paladins of Charlemagne once rivalled the stories of King Arthur and the knights of the Round Table in popularity.
For example, it is not possible to force a checkmate with a king and two knights against a lone king.
Long flowing overgarments, called surcoats, had begun to be worn by mail-clad knights in the mid-12th century.
Some of these subtenants were men described as knights and their tenancies as knights' fees.
As I walked past, all the knights, squires, pages, and others practicing would bow and offer me a kind word.
She had never so much as read about medieval knights, and now she had to fight like a champion.
The four knights were immediately recognised as royal courtiers and ushered into the Archbishop's private chambers.
This is my safest hiding place, but with the knights following us, we probably ought to move around more.
The Arabian knights may be famous for their heroic deeds, but apparently word had failed to spread about their superb table manners.
On Ike's corner, there will be Pegasus knights, pikemen, lords and mounted cavaliers ready to take orders.
But despite the commanders, the dukes, marquises knights and princes it is the common cateran who has left his mark.
The four knights went back to the mulberry tree in the yard to remove their covering garments, put on their hauberks, and gather their swords.
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The suggestion that the knights had previously had any communication with King Henry is a gross calumny.
The knights led their horses over to the stables where the stable hands took them.
Squires were the sidekicks of knights, for whom the squires would polish the armor, feed the horse and cook meals.
Instead, he gave Dermot permission to recruit mercenaries from among his Norman knights.
Try as she might, she could not persuade the knights and burgesses of the Commons to leave such royal matters to her.
But now it had been crushed by the knights of the shires and burgesses in Parliament assembled.
Monday's honours list included one cringeworthy addition to the bunyip aristocracy of knights and dames.
They offered an outlet for the ambitions of land-hungry knights and noblemen.
How her beauty was known to all mankind and how knights and noblemen would plead King Julius for his daughter's hand.
When at war, his banner was attended by knights, squires, and grooms, vavasours and varlets.
The knights ride Andalusian crosses of sorrel and bay costumed spectacularly in body and headdress.
Her hair strayed like a dark veil in the night wind as she faced the knights with unflinching courage.
He stared, and realized that he had placed the king in check from one of his knights.
However, the knights themselves had backed away enough that they wouldn't be in my sights, meaning the only targets would be lizard men.
Comcast has opened the door for possible black knights to appear too, in the form of Viacom, Liberty Media or even Microsoft.
The knights in the hall simply stared in bewilderment at the strange sight of the green man.
We could see, for instance, the doddering old knights and dames of the order tottering in in procession.
Sure enough, four knights came through the bushes behind him, all glaring at me menacingly.
Knight errant, star of the tilt yards and champion to the king, Marshall was one of England's most famous knights.
The ancient epic had its counterpart in athletic contests just as the medieval romance had its counterpart in jousts and tournaments between knights.
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The crusaders consisted mainly of knights and some crossbowmen.
The knights stayed with the citizens rather than joining the baronage, with whom they had much in common, adding great weight to the Commons house.
Don't we have any knights left to take care of the damsels in distress?
My lord Leinhart Richartinger, Werner Pentznawer, Ulrich Kuchler, and little Stainer, all bannerets, were killed in the fight, also many other brave knights and soldiers.
Petersen's film draws out the tragedy without pandering to the mainstream, and is populated by flawed heroes rather than knights in shining armour.
Exeter allowed only bishops and knights to have effigies, whereas Hereford and Wells gave the privilege also to cathedral dignitaries like deans and archdeacons.
Tales and legends dealt with the doings of kings, contests between knights and dragons, and the exploits of ancient robbers and bandits as well as with the lives of saints.
Would-be knights in shining armour will be jousting for the affections of their lady-loves in tournaments harking back to the days of King Arthur.
The initial incursions into Ireland had been by marcher knights and other freelances from south Wales hired by Diarmait MacMurchadha, the King of Leinster.
The Constable of the castle sent out two knights under a safe conduct to see if the King was truly present and sure enough they found him dining with Bishop Hugh.
In 1843 there were 451 knights bachelor and 787 members of the orders, but these numbers swelled rapidly, and by 1915 there were over 4,000 members of orders.
The Templar nodded and beckoned his fellow knights to approach.
So it was that his invasion of England, where the church was schismatic, was officially a crusade and a papal banner flew over the Norman knights at Hastings.
In the recent birthday honours only one of the 25 new knights bachelor was from health care, and he was a chairman of a regional office of the NHS Executive.
Two knights hold three virgates and ten acres from Harduin in Caldecote.
Over the next two centuries, knights were enfeoffed with land, becoming more fully involved in landed society and royal administration in the localities.
The success of the mailed knights and their bowmen was immediate.
The Few, as Churchill dubbed the Fighter Command aircrew, were not the free-spirited, knights of the air, officer types immortalised by the media.
Written in Gothic letters of gold leaf, the composer's name on the portrait above his left shoulder recalls the style of the escutcheons of the knights of the Golden Fleece.
With that proclamation, he rushed back up the steps followed by the lead knight, leaving the knights to look worried and confused in front of a group of comely women.
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They gave no quarter and Robert of Artois himself and more than seven hundred French knights were killed, while the remaining French beat a prudent retreat.
In 1133 he was sent by the King to Bayeux, after the death of Bishop Richard, to enquire as to the fees and services due to the see by its barons, knights and vavasours.
He was imprisoned in October 1608 for brawling with other knights.
The French responded by dismounting most of their knights at Agincourt to prevent their horses being maddened by arrows, but here too the result was the same.
In Arthurian legend, a knights wearing black indicate both power but also mystery and independence.
When he sallied out to meet the enemy, his army consisted of 160 knights.
Is there more to U.S. involvement overseas than the fairy tale of knights saving fair maidens from dragons?
William had a very shaky claim to the English throne, but what he did have in his favour was a dukedom full of Norman knights, all eager for a share of newly conquered land.
The Earl of Salisbury and almost all of the English knights were killed.
You score points by assessing the position of your knights on the castles, multiplying a knight's vertical position by the spatial dimensions of the structure.
It was also at Pentecost that King Arthur and his knights were wont to sit and wait for some unusual or miraculous occurrence before they sat to feast.
Most of the remaining knights took the remaining ships and sailed for Antioch, leaving the foot soldiers and the pilgrims to shift for themselves.
He could remember being told great stories about the chivalrous knights in his grandfather's time, those whom had fought with honour, discipline and great skill.
Rogue female knights and emancipated Wildlings are approaching the center of the story.
The shamefulness of this act is ironically pointed up by the fact that it follows the description of two English knights chivalrously dying in each other's arms.
He was also encouraged to display the virtues of chivalry, a code of conduct created by the clergy to curb the brutality of this order of knights.
All the new knights were appointed for their chivalric reputations.
The will of the Round Table grew too strong, its knights too forceful.
In the backlash to Reconstruction after the Civil War, the knights of the Ku Klux Klan were born.
Henry VIII commissioned his own round table and placed at its centre, alongside the names of the Arthurian knights, the Tudor rose and a portrait of Arthur.
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The knights all sat impatiently on their mounts, while several grooms loaded some packhorses with a month's worth of supplies, food, blankets, and clothing.
The times your own pieces have been blocked by the knights and bishops you seem bent on protecting, leaving me free to checkmate you, are uncountable.
Kay and Brastias, I need you to roster our knights, horses and supplies.
This movie brings a cheerfully anachronistic spin to the centuries-old traditions of knights engaging in combat for glory, honor, and a lady or two.
By the 12th century the nobility began to stage tournaments in which knights engaged each other in battle in order to prove their skill, courage and honor.
Now all pretence was laid aside, and the knights arrayed themselves in their full battle gear and rode out on their previously concealed chargers to meet the enemy.
Coursers had none of the ponderous, muscle-bound massiveness that characterized the chargers of heavy foreign knights and made them look so clumsy and unwieldy.
Another illumination also illustrating Combat des Trentes shows the Breton-French knights with a narrow, forked white oriflam, charged with a cross couped.
The horse of one of the lead knights threw its rider and bolted backward.
The knights gathered their armor and readied themselves for battle.
England's wars, waged successfully by humble bowmen as well as knights and noblemen, created among all ranks a self-confidence that warmed English hearts.
Thus 9 of the 14 knights in Group C were armigerous the remainder being described as knights by the ordinance of 1295, and each of the knights in Group D was armigerous.
The tyranny associated by Renaissance humanists with the age of chivalric knights and with the knight figure caused romances that heroize the bygone age to fall into disfavor.
A ghost story set in medieval times with screaming heroines and handsome knights, it was aiming at the market that longed for a return to more rural, gentler times.
Notified of Philip's impending approach with 2,000 knights, he turned around and headed back to Flanders.
As an analogy, consider the battles of Crecy and Agincourt, where English longbowmen slaughtered the French knights charging them.
The defensive armor with the horses of the ancient knights... These are frequently, though improperly, stiled barbs.
These are Knightes in their offices, but not nobles, and are called knights Caligate of Armes, because they were startuppes to the middle legge.
Those Roman knights were so called, if they could dispend per annum so much.
They slew 7,000 Irish but, as the knights tried to move the rocks with ropes and force, they failed.
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At Augustus' death, the equites, or knights, chose Claudius to head their delegation.
Suetonius states that a total of 35 senators and 300 knights were executed for offenses during Claudius' reign.
The resulting parliament included barons, clergy, knights, and burgesses for the first time.
He opposed the holding of tournaments, probably because of the security risk that such gatherings of armed knights posed in peacetime.
It became common practice for landowners to bind their mesnie knights to their service with annual payments.
The archbishops, bishops, abbots, earls and barons were summoned, as were two knights from each shire and two burgesses from each borough.
From 1265 onwards, when the monarch needed to raise money through taxes, it was usual for knights and burgesses to be summoned too.
The knights, with the help of Spanish and Maltese forces, were victorious and repelled the attack.
In November 1171 Henry accepted the fealty of the Dublin Vikings, the Gaelic kings and the Norman knights.
He charged Anselm with having given him insufficient knights for the campaign and tried to fine him.
The knights informed Becket he was to go to Winchester to give an account of his actions, but Becket refused.
Under him would have been knights who by benefit of their military training would have acted as a type of officer class.
The knights themselves lived in auberges, but these were more large houses rather than palaces.
There, Arthur and Guinevere are married and there are the tombs of many kings and knights.
These events featured jousting, dancing, and feasting, and in some cases attending knights assumed the identities of Arthur's entourage.
His deeds are recounted for their uniqueness, not only among living knights but of all men who have ever lived.
The proceedings went further, and a number of Richard's chamber knights were also executed, among these Burley.
The Knight's Tale shows how the brotherly love of two fellow knights turns into a deadly feud at the sight of a woman whom both idealise.
In a completely allegorical context, the poem follows several knights in an examination of several virtues.
Coats of arms came into general use by feudal lords and knights in battle in the 12th century.
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Shortly after the Ferns agreement, Maurice FitzGerald landed at Wexford with at least 10 knights, 30 mounted archers and 100 foot archers.
On 23 August, Strongbow landed at Passage with at least 200 knights and 1,000 soldiers.
Raymond FitzGerald landed at Wexford with at least 30 knights, 100 mounted soldiers and 300 archers.
In February 1177, John de Courcy left Dublin with a force of about 22 knights and 500 soldiers.
During this period, Scotland experienced innovations in governmental practices and the importation of foreign, generally French, knights.
The corsairs included knights of the Order, native Maltese people, as well as foreigners.
After he had raved his time upon the stage, the ladies and knights again minueted for an hour, and again gave place.
The attendance of knights and freeholders had become important, and burgh commissioners joined them to form the Three Estates.
Scotland in this period experienced innovations in governmental practices and the importation of foreign, mostly French, knights.
It is estimated Surrey lost one hundred knights and five thousand infantrymen in the slaughter at Stirling Bridge.
The Scottish losses appear to have been comparatively light, with only two knights among those killed.
The office has subsequently been held by one of the knights, though not necessarily the most senior.
Priory is also used to refer to the geographic headquarters of several commanderies of knights.
Shortly after this, a representative delegation of barons, clergy and knights was sent to Kenilworth to speak to the King.
Michael was built in the 12th century by one of the Norman knights of Glamorgan, William de Londres.
St Govan may be identified with Sir Gwaine, one of King Arthur's knights, who entered into a state of retreat in his later years.
After taking Apulia and Calabria, Roger occupied Messina with an army of 700 knights.
French knights also comprised the majority in both the Hospital and the Temple orders.
Under feudalism, those who were weakest needed the protection of the knights who owned the weapons and knew how to fight.
In 1185 John made his first visit to Ireland, accompanied by 300 knights and a team of administrators.
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One group was the familiares regis, John's immediate friends and knights who travelled around the country with him.
Philip did not participate directly in these actions, but he allowed his vassals and knights to help carry it out.
Towards the end of his reign, the king could muster some 3,000 knights, 9,000 sergeants, 6,000 urban militiamen, and thousands of foot sergeants.
In this period, women also often gave knights and warriors gifts that included thyme leaves, as it was believed to bring courage to the bearer.
According to Thomas' version, Tristan was wounded by a poison lance while attempting to rescue a young woman from six knights.
In 1095 Pope Urban II called the First Crusade, encouraging knights from across Europe to join.
Despite English levies and knights owing military service to the Church arriving in considerable numbers, many of his barons did not appear.
In 1105, Henry sent his friend Robert Fitzhamon and a force of knights into the Duchy, apparently to provoke a confrontation with Duke Robert.
Henry appears to have deployed scouts and then organised his troops into several carefully formed lines of dismounted knights.
From 1265, two burgesses from each borough were summoned to the Parliament of England, alongside two knights from each county.
The warrior bishops, electors, pfalzgrafs, and knights of the empire, all swore it was no shame not to be a match for Sathanas.
These are analogous to, and inspired the myth of, the knights of the Round Table of King Arthur's court.
Initially used mainly for war services, this new class of people would form the basis for the later knights, another basis of imperial power.
Early trials by combat allowed a variety of weapons, particularly for knights.
Godfrey was left with only 300 knights and 2,000 infantry to defend the territory won in the Eastern Mediterranean.
Roger, in exchange, provided William with 600 knights and access to money for his campaign.
Roger, freed from the utmost danger, immediately disembarked in Calabria, at Tropea, with 400 knights and other troops, probably mostly Muslims.
Foot soldiers of Novgorod had surrounded and defeated an army of knights, mounted on horseback and clad in thick armour.
Royal knights were mainly nobles with a close relationship with the king, and thus claimed a direct Gothic inheritance.
Their function in battle was to contain the enemy troops until the cavalry arrived and to block the enemy infantry from charging the knights.
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In 1147, as part of the Reconquista, crusader knights led by Afonso I of Portugal besieged and conquered Lisbon.
At Pentecost, Arthur gathers his knights at Camelot and establishes the Round Table company.
Arthur battles him alone, an act of public relations intended to inspire his knights.
On his quest, he encounters the Black, Green, Red, and Blue knights and the Red knight of the Red Lands.
This allows Gareth to disguise himself and win honor by defeating his brother knights.
The book ends with Gareth rejoining his fellow knights and marrying Lyonesse.
Other knights, even knights of the Round Table, make requests that show the dark side of the world of chivalry.
Malory's version chronicles the adventures of numerous knights in their quest to achieve the Holy Grail.
When Lancelot's party raids the execution, many knights are killed, including, by accident, Gareth and Gaheris.
The knights were drawn to battle by feudal and social obligation, and also by the prospect of profit and advancement.
The first concerns King Arthur's knights visiting the Grail castle or questing after the object.
Living knights were sometimes challenged to single combat by phantom knights, which vanished when defeated.
This was because Richard had been in dispute with four knights who owned land adjoining the forest.
The knights returned after nightfall, their voices stilled. Yet one told us that never had the water been so deep, never so roilsome.
His son she viewed as one of the thickwitted giants meant to be food for the heroism of good knights of romance.
As a kid, you'd admired pictures of knights in burnished suits of armor.
The teenagers go about like water diviners, or Arthurian knights on an endless quest to find the Holy Grail.
A group of people dressed as Jedi knights also reportedly blocked the exit so the alleged robber could not escape.
Jedi Master Bob Vitas had spent a long Thursday engaging fellow knights in conversation and found himself peckish.
Only the bravest knights and fairest maidens were invited to a medieval-themed Mossy Castle for the revelry to end all revelries.
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New terminology such as bottom feeders, vulture funds and white knights is indicative of real estate acquisitions have changed.
The response by the knights of patriotic history to this revival of Aboriginal history was brazenfaced.
In a faraway forest in a faraway land live Meathook and his band of carnivorous dragons, who love feasting on tasty knights and princesses.
Yet cricket's knights Ian Botham, Garry Sobers and Vivian Richards, were snivellingly grateful to their sugar daddy.
Charley badge spuriously featuring knights chainmail But it didn''t seem to matter.
Characters in the play included a king and queen, knights, princesses, trolls, a wizard and two Pokemon characters, Dragatot and Stinkweed.
The following description of the next two approaching knights revels in the same colourfulness.
The nobility, upper classes and individual knights of the Order built a number of private palaces, especially in Valletta, but also in the countryside.
After the arrival of the Order of Saint John in 1530, the knights settled in Birgu, where part of Fort St Angelo was used as a palace for the Grand Master.
By the early 14th century, the attendance of knights and freeholders had become important, and Robert the Bruce began regularly calling burgh commissioners to his Parliament.
He is the first hint of proletarian male vigor against the grain of Leslie Howard, James Mason, Stewart Granger, John Mills, Dirk Bogarde and the theatrical knights.
The next summer he summoned his knights to impose a steep tax.
The next year, in a writ dated 13 June 1240, the king directed the Sheriff of Devon and twelve knights of the county to perambulate the Forest to record its exact bounds.
Seeking forgiveness, the assassins travelled to Rome and were ordered by the Pope to serve as knights in the Holy Lands for a period of fourteen years.
At a meadow a mile from Edinburgh, there was a pavilion where Sir Patrick Hamilton and Patrick Sinclair played and fought in the guise of knights defending their ladies.
Caesar brought mounted soldiers of the 10th legion, who joked that they had been promoted to knights, which was the origin of the 10th legion's nickname Equestris.
He was one of the four knights who murdered St Thomas Beckett in Canterbury cathedral, and legend says that he took refuge here afterwards before being banished to France.
After their victories over European knights at Legnica and Muhi, Mongol armies quickly advanced across Bohemia, Serbia, Babenberg Austria and then into the Holy Roman Empire.
Historically, nobility and knights have also formed Orders of Knighthood.
However, when the king was merely seeking advice, he often only summoned the nobility and the clergy, sometimes with and sometimes without the knights of the shires.
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Powys brought a force of 400 warriors to the aid of its ally Rhufoniog, while Chester sent Norman knights from Rhuddlan to the aid of Dyffryn Clwyd.
But Montfort's decision to summon knights of the shires and burgesses to his parliament did mark the irreversible emergence of the landed gentry as a force in politics.
However, only aspiring Jedi knights aged from six to 12 can take part.
For this Parliament, in addition to the secular and ecclesiastical lords, two knights from each county and two representatives from each borough were summoned.
The loyalty of lords, of castellans and knights, without which dynastic politics would have become a masquerade and armies a sham, depended on these ideals and expectations.
Louis accepted, landing in Kent on 21 May 1216, with 1,200 knights.
His throne is secure, his knights have proven themselves through a series of quests, Sir Lancelot and Sir Tristan have arrived and the court is feasting.
A file of mourners on foot, including Robert Stewart and a number of knights dressed in black gowns, accompanied the funeral party into Dunfermline Abbey.
The king had taken most of his household knights and the loyal members of his nobility with him to Ireland, so Henry experienced little resistance as he moved south.
Saint Thomas Becket, Archbishop of Canterbury, had been murdered in Canterbury Cathedral by knights of Henry II during a disagreement between Church and Crown.
William also required his newly created magnates to contribute fixed quotas of knights towards not only military campaigns but also castle garrisons.
Being a gentleman, Robert was entitled to shove other commoners into the gongpit but he still had to jump out of the way of the knights to avoid the same fate himself.
Iberian cavalry tactics involved knights approaching the enemy, throwing javelins, then withdrawing to a safe distance before commencing another assault.
Noble knights came from the ranks of the infanzones or lower nobles, whereas the commoner knights were not noble but were wealthy enough to afford a horse.
The Popes called the knights of Europe to the Crusades in the peninsula.
Beaumont made use of the same tactics that the English would make famous during the Hundred Years' War, with dismounted knights in the centre and archers on the flanks.
Norsemen, Flemish spearmen, Frankish knights, Moorish mounted archers, and Berber light cavalry were the main types of mercenaries available and used in the conflict.
By the early fourteenth century, the attendance of knights and freeholders had become important, and from 1326 commissioners from the burghs attended.
French knights at Agincourt were unable to broach the English line.
Wherefore King Ban and King Bors made them ready, and dressed their shields and harness, and they were so courageous that many knights shook and bevered for eagerness.

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