Were noble knight errants actually exist in history or were they all disgusting upper class scum like the samurai?

>>17774178 (OP)
98 % of nepo baby scum and 2 % of actual heroic chilvaric knights

>>17774178 (OP)
great helms are so gay and boring

>>17774178 (OP)
>were they all disgusting upper class scum like the samurai
This, but because they were matriarchal simps.

>>17774178 (OP)
they did exist, and they were mostly adventurers; not in the sense of fantasy adventures, like slay a dragon, deliver a land from a terrible curse, etc. but they were literally on ventures, like establishing a demesne in a "barbarian" or foreign land, escort merchant enterprises, rudimentary spywork, etc.

>>17774178 (OP)
this is mostly based on later romanticism and the knights templar, who were created in direct response to their contemporary knights being arrogant thuggish douchebag frat bros

>>17774178 (OP)
Knight Errants were a medieval literary device. The closest comparable real phenomenon would be the Passage of Arms - which were instances of young knights camping at bridges or crossroads to challange any other passing knight/equivalent for a fight.

>>17774178 (OP)
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Reminds me where the shining knight slays dragon or villain and rescues the princess architypes come from?

>>17774336
from "amour courtoys" literature, aka femcoomer fanfiction (may or may not include arthurian mythos)

>>17774349
I can see it be an 19th century pulp fantasy in american context and fairy tale in European one.

>>17774336
Medieval books like The Faerie Queene, the Golden Legend, the Nibelungenlied or the Codex Sangallensis. All of which are based on older legends based on religious stories of saints or figures of pagan origin.

>>17774336
>Reminds me where the shining knight slays dragon
a 2000 year old story about a Roman legionary killing a crocodile being inflated through the telling

>>17774336
From the ancient pre-christian myths about heroes/semigods killing serpents/dragons/monsters who a terrorized the people

>knights
they were nobles, take a guess