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1) Boys from noble families would begin training to become knights around age 7 by becoming pages at a lord's castle, where they learned skills like horseback riding, weaponry, hunting, and manners. 2) At age 14, pages became squires and assisted their knight masters, maintaining armor and weapons and fighting beside them in battle to prove themselves. 3) When deemed ready between 18-20, squires underwent a ceremonial knighting where they were dubbed a knight, typically by their training knight, in recognition of their vows to uphold chivalric ideals.

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1) Boys from noble families would begin training to become knights around age 7 by becoming pages at a lord's castle, where they learned skills like horseback riding, weaponry, hunting, and manners. 2) At age 14, pages became squires and assisted their knight masters, maintaining armor and weapons and fighting beside them in battle to prove themselves. 3) When deemed ready between 18-20, squires underwent a ceremonial knighting where they were dubbed a knight, typically by their training knight, in recognition of their vows to uphold chivalric ideals.

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Becoming a Page A priest would give the page religious

training and he would often teach the


page how to read and write.
A boy usually of nobility was chosen
for knighthood, but not always.  A boy
started on his way to knighthood at Becoming a Squire
about the age of seven or eight.   At
this
time, he was sent to a Lord's castle to At the age of fourteen the page
be trained for knighthood.  This young became a squire.  Squires had to
follow their master on the battlefield
trainee was known as a page.  During to protect him if he would fall.  From
his time as a page, he learned about the 13th century,
horses, armour and weapons.  Because squires fought on the battlefield beside
hunting was so important, a page had their knight.
to learn how to handle hawks and
falcons, as well as to cut up a deer for A squire was responsible for dressing
venison.  Since a page was also the knight for battles and
expected to serve the tournaments. He was the knight's
meals at the knight's table, they had to assistant and the only one allowed to
learn how to carve the meat properly help the knight.
before becoming a knight. The squire was responsible for taking
care of the knight's armour and
Pages practiced fighting with a sword weapons. He had to become skilled in
against a wooden stake, or "pell" to the use of the armour as well as the
develop muscles needed in becoming a weapons. A squire had to get used to
strong knight.  A page had to learn to wearing the armour so it would be
skillfully use a bow and arrow for second
hunting and often practiced this skill nature to him when worn.
by competing with others.  Pages also
had to clean the coats of mail by A squire had to become skilled in
rolling it in a barrel filled with sand. using the lance, spear, or sword.  He
  had to practice so that the lance did
not run back through his fingers when
A knight not only had to know how to he struck the knight.   He practiced
fight in battle, but he also had to learn against a wooden dummy called a
how to be courteous.  The lady of the quintain.  A quintain was a heavy
castle taught a young page manners weighted sack or dummy in the form
and social graces.  He would learn of a human. It was hung on a wooden
how to sing, play instruments and pole along with a shield. The squire
dance from the lady.  The lady would had to hit the shield in it's center.
also teach him to read and write. When hit, the whole structure would
  spin around and around. The page
had to move out of the way quickly
without getting hit and knocked off
his horse by the weighted bag!
  one could become a knight for
  showing bravery and courage in
battle.

Becoming a Knight

When considered ready, generally


between the ages of eighteen and
twenty, a squire was dubbed a knight. 
This was often performed  by the
knight who trained him.  On the eve
before becoming a knight, the squire
confessed his sins to a priest.  He was
given a symbolic bath and then he
fasted, cleansing his soul.  Dressed all
in white he prayed and kept watch
over his armour and his weapons in
the chapel all night.  The next
morning he would be dressed in
symbolically colored clothes - red (for
his blood), white (for purity), and
brown (for the return to the earth
when he died).  Gilded spurs were
attached to his ankles and he was
"girded" with a sword.  By a tap on
each shoulder with a sword, he was
dubbed a knight, thus reminding him
of his vows he promised to uphold.  If
a knight broke his vows or was
dishonorable, he was stripped of his
knighthood in another ceremony to
bury him, because in the Middle Ages,
" a knight without honour is no longer
alive."
 
 

There were two other ways for one to


become a knight.  If there was a battle
and the King needed additional men,
he would knight a number of squires
to have enough men to fight.  Also,

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