How did knights from different European kingdoms (France, England, HRE) compare?
Skill?
Armour?
Weapons?
13th Century Knights
Aaron Torres
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Elijah Smith
In the 13th century
Chase Adams
Why are their expressions so weird?
Elijah Fisher
How powerful was the average knights cavalry charge?
Alexander Young
Bump
Nathaniel Taylor
As I understand it English knights were dogshit.
Dylan Hall
Was it poor training?
What facilitated such differences? How did the armours compare? Does anyone have any armour comparisons
Isaiah Lopez
First of all I'd imagine the French knights would have better armour and equipment in general due to the fact that France was wealthier. English knights, I don't think, used cavalry as effectively as French knights.
Eli Robinson
I thought England was wealthier due to the whole centralisation thing?
Justin Allen
This is a really arbitrary question worthy of clickbait YouTube video by a retard of the rank of Shaddiversity. It all depends. Each kingdom build its army to counter its immediate threats. For example the Battle of Adrianople in 1205. Excellent western knights who just a year before had managed the impossible and taken Constantinople absolutely shat themselves against the light cuman cavalry. Why? Because taking a city is their ball game but battle in the open fields of the balkans was not. By the time the knights reached the Bulgarian force the battle was over, that’s how effective was the light cuman cav against the most heavily armored soldiers of Europe. The knights fought more than valiantly, but as I said it was not their ball game. In the end the Latins fought the Bulgarians for 10 years and in that time managed to win only one battle. Those same Bulgarians on the other hand won only one battle against the ottomans 2 centuries later. So as I said arbitrary question.