Tour Scotland photograph of a Knight, or Templar, gravestone, in Auchtertool Kirkyard, Fife, Scotland. This stone is not what I thought. It is actually the stone marking the grave of one of the first ministers of Auchtertool, the Reverend David Martin. It shows the recumbent figure of the minister dressed in his gown and bands.
Knight is a medieval status name from the Olde English pre 7th Century " criht ", meaning boy, youth or serving lad, later extended to mean a tenant bound to serve his lord as a mounted soldier and therefore a man of some importance and substance. Later still, with the changes in the social structure of medieval England, the term " knight ", Middle English " knyghte, " meant an honourable estate conferred by the king on men of noble birth who had served him well.
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