> At the Battle of Garigliano he singlehandedly defended the bridge of the Garigliano against 200 Spaniards, an exploit that brought him such renown that Pope Julius II tried unsuccessfully to entice him into his service.
I would find it hard to believe Joan was never knighted.
Dylan Flores
you are right, they were NORMANS, who should've ruled over England, France and Aquitaine as equal kingdoms letting the degenerate northerners ruin Tolosa and the south was the first step of turning it and then their p*ris into nigger infested shitholes foreshadowing the fall of all Europe
>frogistani talking shit about Southern warriors when his country was so afraid of the Iberian wars they systematically refused taking any part fighting the Muslims >frogistani talking shit about Southern warriors when Navarra, Cataluña and Aragón were stolen from them by Iberian warriors >frogistani talking shit about Southern warriors when France was a Turkish vassal state
knights were a military class not a geographical entity.
Thomas Bennett
>Italian Wars The same Italian Wars Spain in which BTFO'd France into submission and made itself a world power?
Luke Collins
sword heavy calvary and a bow only for cheesing sieges
Aiden Morales
Shut the fuck up fucker fag
Sebastian Morgan
we literally did help: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Las_Navas_de_Tolosa the knights templar was a mostly french order and so was the knights hospitaliers, not to mention the independent french volunteers in that battle or did you expect us to do your job in your place?
Sebastian Cox
>we did help in a couple of battles by sending a couple volunteers across 700 years Is this a joke or are you legitimately stupid? >do your job Funny thing is, Aragón, Navarra and Cataluña were not "our job", it was YOUR job, as the Frankish Empire, to protect the Southern regions, but you didn't and that's precisely why WE took them from you.
those provinces were inhabited by spaniards so yes you're basically asking us to do your job in your place learn to fend for yourself mate, with that attitude it's no wonder spain became europe's punching bag after the thirty years' war
Adrian Martin
Still mad about Trianon?
Jason Allen
That's the regions you lost because you didn't protect them. Those regions were part of the Frankish Empire and Spain -Castilla- took them from you, how saw that I know your own history better than you do. >thirty years war Funny you say that, considering Spain only became irrelevant in military terms after the 1800s and we didn't get punched around by Europeans but by our colonies. >punching bag Even more funny coming from the country who got smacked around all throughout the 1800s and 1900s by the Germs. "They wouldn't attack from Belgium again"
Lincoln Collins
>so was the knights hospitaliers
Italians founded that Order, then the french forced themselves in and tried to corrupt it and fuck it up like they usually do. Good thing its italian core prevented it ended up as some satanist degenerate faggot orgy cult like the all-french templars did.
STILL NOT A SINGLE GERMAN COME JOIN THIS CHERRY PICK FIGHT WHAT WENT WRONG/
Parker Foster
>Those regions were part of the Frankish Empire and Spain -Castilla- took them from you, how saw that I know your own history better than you do. don't want to share a country with spaniards anyway lol >Funny you say that, considering Spain only became irrelevant in military terms after the 1800s and we didn't get punched around by Europeans but by our colonies >be spain >lose foremost european power status to france >then get your austrian dynasty replaced with a french one, losing your dutch and italian territories in the process >finally, get invaded by napoleonic france causing your colonies to revolt hoo boy we sure fucked you over would do it again tbqh full list of hospitaliers grandmasters, i think it's obvious that italians were outnumbered quite early: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Grand_Masters_of_the_Knights_Hospitaller#Knights_Hospitaller_(Kingdom_of_Jerusalem)
these tournaments are actually pretty badass got invited to one cos im a paramedic, ended up treating a guy who got all kinds of fucked up by an axe nearly broke his neck but in the end he was ok just concussed af, the weapons arent sharp but holy fuck they swing em with full force!, i wouldn't call any of these lads larpers there hardcore motherfuckers i think its fantastic some men have the balls to keep the spirit of the medieval alive!
1. English knights, which most people don't realize were essentially French and definitely did not have stereotypical posh English accents in that time period and actually spoke Norman
2. French knights obviously
3. Holy Roman Empire knights
Zachary Foster
Just a reminder that a king of England sat on the throne of France while a king of France was never on the throne of England
Julian Williams
>while a king of France was never on the throne of England
english nobility spoke french until the 15th fucking century
Michael Kelly
Uuuh technically if a king of England sat on the French throne the opposite is also true :)
Brayden Allen
>on foot >2h sword >bow + 2 quivers of arrows I usually play with brainybots too.
I really want to participate of a bohurt league but theres nothing here like it :'(, looking to start something somehow. It looks hardcore but fun as hell.
>Who were the plantaganets >any norman king was also running duchy of normandie
also that "english king" that sat on the throne of france was fucking of french descent sitting on the french AND english throne you absolute fucking retard.
so yes, a king of france sat on the english's throne. fucking retard.
william the conqueror was french
you're a fucking absolute idiot just kill yourself fucking mutt probably LARP as an anglo-saxon too huh?
Isaiah Long
So asshurt. Fact of the matter is that by the time of the hundred years wars they were calling themselves English. And that the actual king of France never held the title king of England. In fact the citizens of Paris sided with the English king when it was under his control and beat back a French army
Adam Miller
the only good knights were french and german lets be real
who would win? trillion dollar metallurgical industry, whole fucking horse farms, whole fucking fields full of serfs and castles required to house and feed and armor these plated creatures
or some 20 bucks weird peasant bow? or some even weirder 30 bucks pizza pasta chefs cross shaped bow?
>getting twatted by Henry Tudor at Bosworth Field >leads a cavalry charge directly at him in a last ditch attempt >knocked out a champion jouster and killed his standard bearer >bulldozes himself through the chaos to within sword range >oh shit a 1v1 for the throne >is piled on by knights who cave his skull in with a halberd
>Also >latin/southern (Spain/Italian/Greek/Portuguese) >Knights Educate yourself. South German and Italian plate armour was the best in Europe or anywhere else really. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Challenge_of_Barletta >It consisted in a mounted tourney between 13 Italians (the most famous being Ettore Fieramosca), who were part of the Spanish army based in Barletta, and 13 French knights who were based in Canosa di Puglia. The Italian knights won the battle, and the French had to pay ransom. lol
>hills, rivers, dense woods, other terrain where horse cant charge 1h+shield, best combination while under missile fire, switching to 2hander/polearm for shield breaking in melee, stunning their blocks, and 1shotting anyone insane enough to come close to me
Brayden Cruz
>invents tactics that defy the code of chivalry >a pepik >Pole calls him a knight Y I K E S
Jackson Lopez
the vikings settled here remember. their and our mutt dna must have made brits larger than average.