Knight School Musical

Welcome to the musical you’ve all been waiting for! Watch the amazing adventures of the young Mitch as he follows his destiny to become a knight. Not only will you love the humor, but you will also learn many things about the medieval ages along the way. Put a new twist on learning and listen to our songs for free below, but read more and you will discover things you never knew of Medival Life in the Middle Ages.

The Path to Knighthood

Knights are commonly picked because they are the sons of nobles or other knights, and apprenticed to a noble as a page. They learn manners and languages like Latin and French, and basic arithmetic. They learn how to ride a horse and basic weapon skills. At the age of fifteen they are allowed to become a squire while they get apprenticed to a knight as a squire. They learn better handling and they learn how to joust and swordfight. They help the knight for when they are jousting with another knight by handing them new weapons when they joust. Many squires do not make it past this stage, but those that do are allowed to become knights at the age of twenty-one. They go through a ritual ceremony when they are ready to be knighted, they have to protect the church for a whole knight looking out and keeping guard. Then they have to go through a ritual bathing. Then they go through the actual ceremony where they are lectured on the duties of a knight and lastly they are dubbed. The knight would then be free to protect their own land and to do as they wished.

 

Jousting

 

Jousting was an act that knights would do regularly to prove their dominance and power. There were two knights on horseback with lances (long pointy sticks) that would try to charge at each other and knock the other person off their horse while trying to stay on themselves. The winner would be able to get the loser’s armor or horse or whatever they desired. Each knight would be able to have three different lances in a joust, if they broke all of them they would lose the joust. Each knight would have a squire who would be in charge to pick up the broken weapons and give their knight the new ones. This was a violent pastime that could sometimes be fatal.