• Thumbnail for William Marshal, 1st Earl of Pembroke
    co-ruler Young Henry, Richard I, John, and finally Henry III. Knighted in 1166, William Marshal spent his younger years as a knight errant and a successful tournament...
    32 KB (4,144 words) - 08:16, 28 October 2024
  • Thumbnail for Knights Hospitaller
    of Knights of the Hospital of Saint John of Jerusalem (Latin: Ordo Fratrum Hospitalis Sancti Ioannis Hierosolymitani), commonly known as the Knights Hospitaller...
    93 KB (10,841 words) - 13:41, 31 October 2024
  • Thumbnail for William J. Knight
    William John "Pete" Knight (November 18, 1929 – May 7, 2004) (Col, USAF) was an American aeronautical engineer, politician, Vietnam War combat pilot, test...
    15 KB (1,425 words) - 02:33, 5 October 2024
  • Thumbnail for William Daniels
    political family: John Adams, his cousin and fellow founding father, Samuel Adams, and John Adams's son John Quincy Adams. William David Daniels was born...
    26 KB (1,594 words) - 02:31, 31 October 2024
  • Thumbnail for William Harrington (knight)
    after his maternal grandfather, William de Engleys, William Harrington was an early fifteenth-century English northern knight, fighting in the Hundred Years'...
    6 KB (850 words) - 09:37, 29 August 2024
  • Thumbnail for Gladys Knight
    family group Gladys Knight & the Pips, which included her brother Merald "Bubba" Knight and cousins William Guest and Edward Patten. Knight has recorded two...
    60 KB (5,098 words) - 19:14, 31 October 2024
  • Thumbnail for Knight
    A knight is a person granted an honorary title of knighthood by a head of state (including the pope) or representative for service to the monarch, the...
    86 KB (10,822 words) - 16:03, 30 October 2024
  • Crypt Presents: Demon Knight is a 1995 American black horror comedy film directed by Ernest Dickerson, starring Billy Zane, William Sadler, Jada Pinkett...
    18 KB (2,050 words) - 00:33, 31 October 2024
  • William Knight (1572 – 29 November 1596) was an English layman put to death for his Catholic faith at York, England. With him also suffered George Errington...
    4 KB (424 words) - 01:17, 22 June 2024
  • William Knight (1475/76 – 1547) was the Secretary of State to Henry VIII of England, and Bishop of Bath and Wells. Knight was sent to Rome in 1527 to...
    10 KB (1,228 words) - 20:49, 1 September 2024
  • Desmond John Villiers FitzGerald, 29th Knight of Glin (13 July 1937 – 14 September 2011) was an Anglo-Irish hereditary knight, and author. He was the...
    9 KB (597 words) - 10:19, 10 February 2024
  • Thumbnail for Knights Templar (Freemasonry)
    The Knights Templar, full name The United Religious, Military and Masonic Orders of the Temple and of St John of Jerusalem, Palestine, Rhodes and Malta...
    25 KB (3,175 words) - 20:47, 26 October 2024
  • Brian Helgeland. The film stars Heath Ledger as William Thatcher, a peasant squire who poses as a knight and competes in tournaments, winning accolades...
    27 KB (2,502 words) - 04:25, 21 October 2024
  • Thumbnail for Phil Knight
    Philip Hampson Knight (born February 24, 1938) is an American billionaire business magnate who is the co-founder and chairman emeritus of Nike, Inc., a...
    74 KB (6,324 words) - 19:16, 27 October 2024
  • Thumbnail for Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
    Sir Gawain and the Green Knight is a late 14th-century chivalric romance in Middle English alliterative verse. The author is unknown; the title was given...
    103 KB (12,956 words) - 22:10, 8 October 2024
  • Thumbnail for William I, German Emperor
    William I (Wilhelm Friedrich Ludwig; 22 March 1797 – 9 March 1888), or Wilhelm I, was King of Prussia from 1861 and German Emperor from 1871 until his...
    63 KB (5,764 words) - 05:10, 23 October 2024
  • Thumbnail for William Henry Knight
    William Henry Knight (26 September 1823 – 31 July 1863) was an English portrait and genre painter. Knight was born in Newbury, Berkshire where his father...
    4 KB (371 words) - 01:28, 16 May 2022
  • Thumbnail for John Alcock (RAF officer)
    Captain Sir John William Alcock KBE DSC (5 November 1892 – 19 December 1919) was a British Royal Navy and later Royal Air Force officer who, with navigator...
    11 KB (1,103 words) - 03:55, 9 February 2024
  • Knight Rider is an American entertainment franchise created by Glen A. Larson. The core of Knight Rider is its three television series: the original Knight...
    32 KB (3,055 words) - 00:54, 9 September 2024
  • Thumbnail for John Buxton Knight
    John William Buxton Knight RBA (1843 – 2 January 1908), English landscape painter, was born in Sevenoaks, Kent. He started as a schoolmaster, but painting...
    12 KB (1,853 words) - 10:56, 11 July 2024
  • Thumbnail for Liam Neeson
    William John Neeson OBE (born 7 June 1952) is a Northern Irish actor. He has received several accolades, including nominations for an Academy Award, a...
    96 KB (8,690 words) - 20:55, 31 October 2024
  • Thumbnail for William IV
    21 February 1834: Knight of the Golden Fleece  Württemberg: Knight Grand Cross of the Württemberg Crown Before becoming king, William, as a son of the...
    76 KB (7,870 words) - 16:27, 24 October 2024
  • Thumbnail for William Fichtner
    William Edward Fichtner (born November 27, 1956) is an American actor. Born in New York, he started his career with supporting appearances in Virtuosity...
    31 KB (1,358 words) - 16:48, 29 October 2024
  • Thumbnail for John Seymour (1474–1536)
    Sir John Seymour, Knight banneret (c.  1474 – 21 December 1536) was an English soldier and a courtier who served both Henry VII and Henry VIII. Born into...
    40 KB (3,732 words) - 09:31, 29 August 2024
  • Sir John Knight (24 November 1613 – 16 December 1683) was an English merchant and politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1660 to 1681. When mayor...
    4 KB (483 words) - 11:38, 29 August 2024
  • confirmed by William Thompson Jr. Her daughter Martha Ann was also baptized in 1882 and John Stewart was baptized nine years later in 1891. Knight family researcher...
    7 KB (953 words) - 02:30, 6 April 2024
  • William M. Knight (1837 – May 4, 1910) was an American politician and merchant from Maryland. He served as a member of the Maryland Senate, representing...
    6 KB (404 words) - 02:11, 27 February 2024
  • Shell. William Daniels as the voice of KITT, or Knight Industries Two Thousand, the autonomous, artificially intelligent car, with whom Michael Knight is...
    25 KB (2,853 words) - 18:52, 29 October 2024
  • Thumbnail for John S. Knight
    John Shively Knight (October 26, 1894 – June 16, 1981) was an American newspaper publisher and editor based in Akron, Ohio. Knight was born in Bluefield...
    8 KB (627 words) - 19:18, 20 January 2024
  • Thumbnail for Order of Saint John (Bailiwick of Brandenburg)
    known as the Order of Saint John or the Johanniter Order (German: Johanniterorden), is the German Protestant branch of the Knights Hospitaller, the oldest...
    34 KB (4,278 words) - 04:45, 21 October 2024