![]() ![]() The quest par excellance in pursuit of which these knights wander the lands is that of the Holy Grail, such as in Perceval, the Story of the Grail written by Chrétien de Troyes in the 1180s.Īlthough the character is part of the romance genre as it developed during the late 12th century, the term "knight-errant" itself is younger, for the first time recorded (as knygt erraunt) in The template of the knight-errant are the heroes of the Round Table of the Arthurian cycle such as Gawain, Lancelot and Percival. The adjective errant (meaning "wandering, roving") indicates how the knight-errant would wander the land in search of adventures to prove his chivalric virtues, either in knightly duels ( pas d'armes) or in some other pursuit of courtly love.Ī Knight-errant is not a knight but a knight in waiting, a servant/messenger role in liege to a full knight or Prince. A knight-errant is a figure of medieval chivalric romance literature. ![]()
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