What does the “Chivalry” mean?

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Early years

What kinds of interesting facts do you know about Henry VIII of England?

Henry VIII Tudor ( June 28, 1491, Greenwich - 28 January 1547, London) –was the king of England from 22 April 1509, the son and heir of King Henry VII, the second English monarch of the Tudor dynasty. Born at Greenwich Palace, Henry Tudor was the third child and second son of Henry VII and Elizabeth of York.

Of the young Henry's six siblings, only three – Arthur, Prince of Wales; Margaret; and Mary – survived infancy.

During his life was grown up by his grandmother Lady Margaret Beaufort. Under her leadership, Henry attended to six Masses a day and wrote essays on theological topics

Early reign
Henry VII died on 22 April 1509, and the young Henry succeeded him as king, taking the regnal title Henry VIII.

In 1512, Henry VIII led his army sailed for the first time to the shores of France on the flagship "Mary Rose", which won the battle near Brest.

Henry VIII is best known for the English Reformation that made England a mostly Protestant nation;

The term chivalry in origin has the meaning "horsemanship", formed in Old French in the 11th century from chevalier "horseman; knight", from Medieval Latin caballārius In English, the term appears from 1292 (note that cavalry is from the Italian form of the same word)The meaning of the term evolved over time, from the original concrete military meaning "status or fee associated with military follower owning a war horse" or "a group of mounted knights"

The ideal of the Christian warrior ethos propagated in the Romance genre which was becoming popular during the 12th century, and the ideal of courtly love propagated in the contemporary Minnesang and related genres. The "code of chivalry" is thus a product of the Late Middle Ages, evolving after the end of the crusades partly from an idealization of the historical knights fighting in the Holy Land, partly from ideals of courtly love.

Ò The Age of Chivalry was also the age of the horse. Bedecked in elaborate armor and other trappings, horses were certainly well dressed, although they might have wished for lighter loads. That the horse should be featured so prominently during the Age of Chivalry is etymologically appropriate, because chivalry goes back to the Latin word caballus, "horse, especially a riding horse or packhorse."