Talk:Black knight

Cleanup
I cleaned up a few of the spelling and grammatical errors in the article. Gmrx 23:20, 19 April 2006 (UTC)

Darth Vader can not, in any sense, be considered a black night. Essential to the black night label is service to no leige. Mr. Vader was in the service of the emporer. That reference should be removed.

I agree. However, it has been changed. Darth Vader is more of a Dark Knight than a Black Knight. Maybe switching the wording around would help? Knight45 9:55, 30 August 2006

Article is contradictory. Says black knights are black because they do not want (or have) affiliation with a liege. Later, it says that they're black because they don't want their armor to rust.
 * No, see, they paint their armor black to prevent rust because they have no pages, and they have no pages because they have no known affiliation with a liege. It makes perfect sense. CaptHayfever 19:20, 13 April 2006 (UTC)
 * the article lists more then one reason for why black knights blacken their armor, how is it contradictory? How would having no affiliation with a liege and also not wanted armor to rust contradictory? Lol. Also, what's the deal with the addition on Dark Knights, it seems out of place in the article and like it was taken from a certain story, not based on a wide view of Dark Knights. 1337wesm 01:39, 13 February 2007 (UTC)he killed many people.

Merging with Knight

 * Oppose merge Given the recently closed AfD I think it's premature to consider merging it. Personally, when I first saw this topic come up at AfD I thought there was no way there couldn't be any serious literary study of an archetypal character of this magnitude, one whose very name is a household phrase. I personally plan on doing some research on it in the near future. -- Blue Squadron  Raven  00:22, 30 May 2009 (UTC)

No this article should NOT be merged with knight or black Knight disambiguation. It is it's own supportive article  Ben  (talk)  10:40, 11 December 2019 (UTC)

"Historical Significance" Section
I really can't believe that this completely unsourced and unverifiable information is still present on this page. Well, seeing as how no one has been able to produce any credible sources to prove that the information in this section isn't anything more than original research, I am going to change the content of this section to more accurately reflect the current lack of sources available on the subject matter. –Nahald (talk) 23:13, 2 October 2010 (UTC)


 * It's funny, I was surprised to see that this article didn't mention the usage that I now see you removed. The practice of concealing one's colors (in my understanding, usually with black cloth) was common in medieval Europe.  I'll see if I can dig up some citations (but not today). CRGreathouse (t | c) 18:24, 23 June 2011 (UTC)

Pointless "article"
What is the point of this article? Nowhere does it actually define a "black knight" except to say that it isn't a "white knight" and apparently has something unspecified to do with Arthurian legend. The rest of the article is just a rambling list of various things called a "black knight" without many of them seeming to have anything in common, and with no attempt made to correlate these examples. The Black knight (disambiguation) is actually more useful than this. This article should be called under afd again or merged with the disambiguation page. There is nothing encyclopedic or useful about it except to serve as a dumping ground for fancruft and a battleground for edit reversions between people claiming historical significance for the term, and the opposed faction which insists that it doesn't. 12.233.146.130 (talk) 19:32, 25 August 2011 (UTC)
 * I'd probably merge Black Knight (Arthurian legend) in to this, have a large section on it, and generally (as pointed out) try to make this into an article rather than a second disambiguation page, which is what it is right now. Renard Migrant (talk) 15:01, 10 October 2018 (UTC)

La Vengeance Raguidel
Perhaps the first reference to a 'Black Knight' is around 1210 in La Vengeance Raguidel by Raoul de Houdenc. I'll happily do a plot summary once I've finished reading it. Renard Migrant (talk) 11:25, 10 October 2018 (UTC)