Destrier between 20 and 300 livres parisis (parisian pounds), compared to 5 to 12 livres for a normal courser. Destrier The destrier is the best-known war horse of the medieval era. It carried knights in battles, tournaments, and jousts. It was described by contemporary sources as the "Great Horse", due to its significance. While highly prized by knights and men-at-arms, the destrier was not very common. Most knights and mounted men-at-arms rode other war horses, such as coursers and rounceys. These three types of horse were often referred to generically as chargers. The word is first attested in Middle English around
Knight of the Swan Knight of the Swan The story of the Knight of the Swan, or Swan Knight, is a medieval tale about a mysterious rescuer who comes in a swan-drawn boat to defend a damsel, his only condition being that he must never be asked his name. The earliest versions (preserved in "Dolopathos") do not provide specific identity to this knight, but the Old French Crusade cycle of "chansons de geste" adopted it to make the Swan Knight ("Le Chevalier au Cigne", first version around 1192) the legendary ancestor of Godfrey of Bouillon. The "Chevalier au Cigne", also known as Helias, figures