Chivalry facts for kids

Bors' Dilemma - he chooses to save a maiden rather than his brother Lionel.

Chivalry is a word from Old French in medieval times when it meant the use of a horse, thus cavalry and knighthood. Later, it meant the qualities of honour and love. Today, the terms chivalry and chivalrous are used to describe courteous behavior, especially that of men towards women.

Related pages

• Chivalric romance

Cross-cultural comparison

• Samurai
• Bushido

Images for kids

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  Konrad von Limpurg as a knight being armed by his lady in the Codex Manesse (early 14th century)

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  God Speed by English artist Edmund Leighton, 1900: depicting an armoured knight departing for war and leaving his beloved

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  Reconstruction of a Roman cavalryman (eques)

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  Knights of Christ by Jan van Eyck

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  Depiction of chivalric ideals in Romanticism (Stitching the Standard by Edmund Blair Leighton: the lady prepares for a knight to go to war)

See also

In Spanish: Caballería medieval para niños