Cavalier painter Sir Anthony van Dyck, the archetypal recorder of the Cavalier image, all took the Parliamentary side in the Civil War. Probably the most famous image identified as of a "cavalier", Frans Hals' "Laughing Cavalier", shows a gentleman from the strongly Calvinist Dutch town of Haarlem, and is dated 1624. These derogatory terms (for at the time they were so intended) also showed what the typical Parliamentarian thought of the Royalist side – capricious men who cared more for vanity than the nation at large. The chaplain to King Charles I, Edward Simmons described a Cavalier as "a Child of
Cavalier (comics) rapier that emits electric blasts. The feather plume in the Cavalier’s hat is actually a steel-tipped dart. Cavalier appeared in "The Batman Adventures" #1 (June 2003) Cavalier (comics) Cavalier is a fictional supervillain in the DC Comics universe. The character first appeared in "Detective Comics" #81 (November 1943) and was created by Don Cameron and Bob Kane. Mortimer Drake was a man of exotic and idiosyncratic taste. When he found himself unable to purchase more exotic valuables for his collection legally, he resorted to theft. Donning a costume resembling that of a Musketeer, he called himself the Cavalier. His course