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Knighten Guilde
The Knighten Guilde or Cnichtengild, which translates into modern English as the Knight's Guild, was an obscure Medieval guild of the City of London. According to A Survey of London by John Stow (1603), it was in origin an order of chivalry founded by the Saxon king Edgar for loyal knights.
The Portsoken Ward of the City of London has its origin in the guild's landholding outside the Aldgate, as did the Ancient Parish of St Botolph without Aldgate.
They were specifically excluded from the Judicia civitatis Londoniae of 930 that united the other frith guilds of London.
According to a legend solely recorded in John Stow's Survey of London, land east of the wall was granted to the guild by King Edgar.
(In) Portsoken, which soundeth, the Franchise at the gate, was sometime a Guild, and had beginning in the dayes of King Edgar, more than 600 yeares since.
There were thirteene Knights, or Soldiers welbeloved to the king and realme, for service by them done, which requested to haue a certaine portion of land on the East part of the Citie, left desolate and forsaken by the Inhabitants, by reason of too much seruitude.
They besought the king to haue this land, with the libertie of a Guilde for euer: the king granted to their request with conditions following: that is, that each of them should victoriously accomplish three combates, one aboue the ground, one underground, and the third in the water, and after this at a certaine day in East Smithfield, they should run with Speares against all commers, all which was gloriously performed: and the same day the king named it knighten Guild...
Historic accounts of a brotherhood of 13 knights are redolent of a Cockney Camelot, but although the responsibilities of the guild were military – presumed to be to defend Aldgate and the eastern part of the City Wall from Norsemen and others – they were not the knights as the term came to be understood later in the Middle-Ages, the kind of knight typically depicted in Arthurian legend. The guild did not fight on horseback, and they didn’t have the elevated social status of later knights.
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Knighten Guilde
The Knighten Guilde or Cnichtengild, which translates into modern English as the Knight's Guild, was an obscure Medieval guild of the City of London. According to A Survey of London by John Stow (1603), it was in origin an order of chivalry founded by the Saxon king Edgar for loyal knights.
The Portsoken Ward of the City of London has its origin in the guild's landholding outside the Aldgate, as did the Ancient Parish of St Botolph without Aldgate.
They were specifically excluded from the Judicia civitatis Londoniae of 930 that united the other frith guilds of London.
According to a legend solely recorded in John Stow's Survey of London, land east of the wall was granted to the guild by King Edgar.
(In) Portsoken, which soundeth, the Franchise at the gate, was sometime a Guild, and had beginning in the dayes of King Edgar, more than 600 yeares since.
There were thirteene Knights, or Soldiers welbeloved to the king and realme, for service by them done, which requested to haue a certaine portion of land on the East part of the Citie, left desolate and forsaken by the Inhabitants, by reason of too much seruitude.
They besought the king to haue this land, with the libertie of a Guilde for euer: the king granted to their request with conditions following: that is, that each of them should victoriously accomplish three combates, one aboue the ground, one underground, and the third in the water, and after this at a certaine day in East Smithfield, they should run with Speares against all commers, all which was gloriously performed: and the same day the king named it knighten Guild...
Historic accounts of a brotherhood of 13 knights are redolent of a Cockney Camelot, but although the responsibilities of the guild were military – presumed to be to defend Aldgate and the eastern part of the City Wall from Norsemen and others – they were not the knights as the term came to be understood later in the Middle-Ages, the kind of knight typically depicted in Arthurian legend. The guild did not fight on horseback, and they didn’t have the elevated social status of later knights.