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The Fifth Doctor is knighted by King John of England. (TV: The King's Demons)
Knight was the term for a social position originating in the Middle Ages denoted by the prefix "Sir" in front of the recipient's given name. They were bound to a code of honour, holding their word as their bond. (TV: The Crusade) The title was only bestowed upon those in the service of the monarch, or who had become favoured in their sights. (TV: Tooth and Claw) Sir Robert de Wensley believed that all good knights served "the king in heaven". (AUDIO: The Doctor's Tale)
In the UK[]
In the United Kingdom, a knighthood was invested in a ceremony in which the monarch tapped both shoulders of the recipient with a sword. (TV: Tooth and Claw)
Both the Fifth and Tenth Doctors were knighted, by King John (in reality the android Kamelion) in 1215 and Queen Victoria in 1879 respectively. The latter also bestowed the title of "Dame" upon Rose Tyler. (TV: The King's Demons, Tooth and Claw) Brigadier Alistair Gordon Lethbridge-Stewart was knighted by Queen Elizabeth II. (TV: The Poison Sky, PROSE: The Dying Days)
During the Crusades, knights were the primary leaders of the English forces. While fighting Saladin, Richard I of England was frequently surrounded by knights whom he held in high regard. He knighted Ian Chesterton while in Palestine in 1190. (TV: The Crusade)
Knights[]
Human[]
- :Category:British knights
- Knight Commander
- Earl of Leicester
- Roland of Brittany
- Gilbert and Sullivan
- Ancelyn
- Mordred
- Clive Reeves
- Himesor
- Araboam
- Zaitabor
- Edryc Dragonsbane
- Knight
- Guy de Carnac
- Donna
- Boswell Chase
- Lancelot
- Colin Thackeray
- Henry Felton
- Oswald Holland
- Yavuz
- Orcini
- Mulberry
- George Harding
- Anna
- Avril Fenman
- Ian MacGregor
- Godric
- Jack Fuller
- Malcome Canker
- James Gregson
- Red Knight
- Alec Douglas-Hodge
- Nigel Lomax
- Malcolm Ruttsby
- Reynald of Marseille
- Edward Scott Cameron
- Bedevere
- Gilles Estram
- Alan Sugar
- Stephan Palbury
- Charles Quinn
- John Hart
- Randolph Eging
- Galahad
- Gawain
- Agravaine
- Rory Williams
- Henri d'Arrée
- Moses of Tyre
- Brent Cleever
- Robert Dudley
- Harry Carruthers
- Bron of Westhold
- Edward Fanshawe
- Richard Hampden
- Thomas Vaughan
- Theophilus Shepstone
- Artillo Brinzo
- Manfred Grayle
- Lee Marks
- Brian de Fillis
British knights[]
- :Category:English knights
- Henry Montague
- Charles Grover
- Paul McCartney
- Alexander Cromwell
- Edward Fulbright
- Donald Wakefield
- Alec Douglas-Home
- James Quinlan
- Humphrey Picton
- Edgar Campbell
- Charles Warren
- Charles Summer
- Francis Dashwood
- Robert MacLeish
- George Woods
- Giles Walbridge
- Edwin Bracewell
- Rupert Silverman
- Edward Scrivener
- Reginald Styles
- Marmaduke Harrington-Smythe
- Percival Flint
- Alistair Gordon Lethbridge-Stewart
- Francis White
- Hugo Destrier
- John Sudbury
- Geoffrey
- Richard Stevenson
- Isaiah Hardy
- Barrie Mulle-Heskith
- Andrew Ridgely
- Andrew Williams
- Roger Hornsbury
- Lydia Kingsley
- Toby Kinsella
- Philip Burkiss-Jones
English knights[]
- Justin of Wells
- Ian Chesterton
- Anne Travers
- Ranulf Fitzwilliam
- Geoffrey de Lacy
- Arthur Conan Doyle
- Walter Raleigh
- Francis Drake
- Edward
- Henry
- John Thurloe
- George Wallace
- George Hardiman
- Reynier de Marun
- William des Preaux
- William de Tornebu
- Robert Muir
- George Hutchinson
- James Tyrell
- Ralph
- Henry Gordon Jago
- George Litefoot
- Emily Shaw
- Nicholas Asquin
- Bobby Charlton
- Joseph Mallard
- Isaac Newton
- Robert Cecil
- Robert de Wensley
- Pete Tyler
- Robert Harney
- Thomas Mapplethorpe
- Patrick Moore
- Rose Tyler
