- Dołączono
- 19 Sty 2023
Maybe in the Early Middle Ages. but that decayed over time especially as the Church placed more and more restrictions on feudal warfare and there were fewer opportunities for war against . The hereditary nature of most knighthoods gradually closed that it an option for people outside the nobility unless they were already wealthy.I mean, what is even wrong with that? With the system of being knighted which was a thing in almost all European nations from Britain to the Russian Empire, anyone could go conscript and do achievements of their own and become a noble. Obviously easier said than done, but the system was pretty meritocratic.
Not too different from what happened to their ancestors the equites in Ancient Rome.