What kind of training did knights go through to becomae an actual knight?

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Training to beomce a knight

If you wanted to be a knight you had to be either rich or own a lot of land which isn’t really fair because most people in medieval times weren’t rich and didn’t have land. Usually knights started at the young age of 7!!Most the kids started as a page which was pretty much a servant. The kids were sent to castles as a page to learn respect and responsibility. After about 2 years being a servant the kids would learn how to ride a horse skillfully. As a kid you would just start out riding a wooden box with wheels and other kids would pull you. This would get you use to hitting a target while riding on a horse. The targets that the kids would try and hit were called quintains.

             Once you grew up to the age of about 10 or 11 you started to ride a real horse which wasn’t easy at all. Once you learned how to ride a horse skillfully then you would start learning how to use a weapon while riding a horse, and if you think riding a horse is hard then try striking a moving target at full speed on a horse with a spear!! Once you mastered riding a horse then you would pass the page stage and become a squire. The squire was responsible to help a knight prepare for battle and fight at the knights side during the battle. Once you were eighteen years old or had experienced 4 years of battle there was a ceremony held for the graduating squires that’s would soon become loyal knights.