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Bookmark or Share- Knighthoods and Damehoods | The Royal FamilyA knighthood cannot be bought and it carries no military obligations to the Sovereign. The King (or a member of the Royal Family acting on his behalf) confers knighthoods in Britain, either at a public investiture or privately. The ceremony involves the ceremonial dubbing of the knight by The King, and the presentation of insignia. ...
- Knight | History, Orders, & Facts | BritannicaThe gradual demise of the Crusades, the disastrous defeats of knightly armies by foot soldiers and bowmen, the development of artillery, the steady erosion of feudalism by the royal power in favour of centralized monarchy—all these factors spelled the disintegration of traditional knighthood in the 14th and 15th centuries.Knighthood lost its martial purpose and, by the 16th century, had been ...
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