By Jack the Good Knight There is a question that I get asked an awful lot. Who was the greatest knight who ever lived? The answer, according to Stephen Langton, the Archbishop of Canterbury is William Marshal. The Archbishop said this shortly after William Marshal died in 1219. He was the most senior churchman in England. And he described William Marshal as the greatest knight that ever lived as though it were a simple statement of fact rather than a compliment. Eight hundred

Knights Templar, Hospitallers and the other powerful Knight Orders of the Medieval World.

Because medieval London, the London of knights and sieges and plague and enormous political drama, is not gone. It is not buried under glass offices and coffee shops, lost entirely to the Great Fire of 1666 and the Blitz and two thousand years of continuous rebuilding. It is hiding in plain sight. In churches, in ruins, in underground rooms, in a meadow beside the Thames, in two giant wooden statues paraded through the City every November.

A quick overview explaining the Crusades - what they were, why they happened and what did they achieve?

This blog explores how far medieval knights were able to travel. They travelled a lot further than you may think!