This kind of freelance situation without a feudal lord to which these soldiers or knights owed homage and or fealty ran quite contrary to a couple of the tenets of feudalism and of course this situation was really looked upon with disapproval. These soldiers were also viewed with a lot of contempt by “enfeoffed” knights, these were the knights that held a fief, land, by tenure in service to feudal lords.
The medieval outlook of mercenary and landless knights was rather opposite to how these knights have been romantically portrayed in lots of stories and how contemporary viewing and reading audiences may perceive them. The unfavourable view of the black knights, originally in medieval times sometimes contributes to the derogatory use of the term
Black Knight in Popular Culture
Black Knight in Popular Culture
· Games – Sega’s video games where King Arthur is transformed by the Sonic Team into The Black Knight.
· Comics – Marvel Comics has had different characters who were called the black knight and are descendants from knights of the Round Table.
· A black knight is a character that is featured in “Monty Python& the Holy Grail”, the black knight confronts King Arthur.
· The Scooby Doo series also features a black knight character
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