Medieval Warfare Magazine

THE NORMAN KNIGHT

CHARGING AN ENEMY IN THE ELEVENTH CENTURY

A part from northern France and the conquest of England, one could find Norman warriors fighting (and sometimes taking over) in Ireland, Scotland, Wales, Italy, the Holy Roman Empire, southern Italy, the Balkans, the Byzantine Empire, the Holy Land, and North Africa, and elsewhere.

The key to their success was in large part the heavy cavalry. Norman

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