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There were knight girls? For what purpose. What were their names? Seems like fairy tales.
no records of girls being knighted as the title was indeed exclusive to men, but there is historical evidence of women donning armor
Without context all I see is a painting of what appears to be old ladies on horses with some kind of armor.
Perhaps it was decorative or purely for protection? I could only speculate.
But the idea of women fighting was with armor is to me unreal.
I always assumed that it was not until sometime after the cartridge had become common that this was even a thing.
Imad ad-din al-Isfahani, a Saracen chronicler who accompanied Saladin during his major campaigns against Christians, documented women fighting in armor against Muslims. Though none of their names are recorded and surely none were legitimately knighted, they appear to have fought under the guise of being men.
“Among the Franks there were indeed women who rode into battle with cuirasses and helmets, dressed in men’s clothes; who rode out into the thick of the fray and acted like brave men although they were but tender women, maintaining that all this was an act of piety, thinking to gain heavenly rewards by it, and making it their way of life. Praise be to him who led them into such error and out of the paths of wisdom!
On the day of battle more than one woman rode out with them like a knight and showed (masculine) endurance in spite of the weakness (of her sex); clothed only in a coat of mail they were not recognized as women until they had been stripped of their arms. Some of them were discovered and sold as slaves.”
“Among the Franks there were indeed women who rode into battle with cuirasses and helmets, dressed in men’s clothes; who rode out into the thick of the fray and acted like brave men although they were but tender women, maintaining that all this was an act of piety, thinking to gain heavenly rewards by it, and making it their way of life. Praise be to him who led them into such error and out of the paths of wisdom!
On the day of battle more than one woman rode out with them like a knight and showed (masculine) endurance in spite of the weakness (of her sex); clothed only in a coat of mail they were not recognized as women until they had been stripped of their arms. Some of them were discovered and sold as slaves.”
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