![]() His knighthood was to be for God and His church. The apparitions he received became clear to him that his knighthood would be different from before. He had intended to return to his former position as a knight and find fame and glory. Francis received two apparitions while in a half sleep. It was during this time that Francis reflected on his life and he developed a deep spiritual change. Over the next two years, Francis was among many prisoners who became sick. He was taken to Perugia and imprisoned with the common soldiers. In 1202, the twenty-year-old knight Francis was captured in the battle between Collestrada and Ponte San Giovannis that is on the road to Assisi. Many battles between feuding towns for control of commerce raged while Francis was in his teenage years. Due to the cost of equipping, a knight with men and horses was so expensive that only the wealth of nobility and commerce could sustain it. A knight came from both nobility and wealth. His father wanted Francis to join him in his business endeavors, which in turn would cement his place in the feudal nobility and knightly estate. He was seen by all as a much-pampered and luxury-loving young gentleman.įrederick Barbarossa the Emperor and Lucius III the Pope had dominated the world in which Francis was born. His elementary education came from the priests of St. His early years were ones in which his mother gave him instruction due to his father being away on business. Upon his return, Francis’s father renamed him Francesco from his fond memory of “gentle France” where he had a profitable business. Francis was baptized while his father was away and given by his mother the name John Baptist. ![]() His mother descended from gentle nobility and his father was a wholesale cloth merchant. Francis was born in the spring of 1182 into nobility the son of Peter Bernardone and Lady (Pica) Domina (Donna). The Knights’ Code of Chivalry is inspired by the song of Roland, the Duke of Burgundy and the Code of Chivalry in the legends of King Arthur and Camelot. ![]() Francis lived many Military Orders of Knights were formed. During this period of history in which St. In the Dark Ages of the eighth century, through the culture of the Middle Ages into the life and times of St. He turned it into one of a spiritual knighthood under his heavenly sovereign. Then after his encounter with Jesus Christ, he reformed his knighthood in the Lord. Francis of Assisi was formed in his youth as a military knight. This code of chivalry will focus on finding the keys to the future that are found in the past. The Modern Knights’ Code of Chivalry The 17 primary codes of conduct pertaining to modern-day knights
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