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 (Dungeons & Dragons) Cavalier (Dungeons & Dragons) The cavalier is a playable character class in the "Dungeons & Dragons" fantasy role-playing game, and the related "Pathfinder Roleplaying Game". It is a mounted warrior mostly in the service of good. The cavalier was introduced by Gary Gygax in "Dragon" #72 (April 1983). The cavalier later appears in the "Advanced Dungeons & Dragons" supplement, "Unearthed Arcana" in 1985, which also made the paladin a sub-class of the cavalier class. The Samurai from Oriental Adventures and Knights of Solamnia from Dragonlance Adventures were also subclasses of cavalier. The cavalier (along with the barbarian) was revised in