- Fact 2 - The more common warhorses used by Knights were like modern hunters and known as Destriers
- Fact 3 - Knights often wore ladies' "favors", generally a scarf, veil, or sleeve, when jousting
- Fact 4 - Sometimes a knight would appear with no heraldic markings
- Fact 5 - The decline in jousting started with the invention of the musket firearm in 1520
- Fact 6 - Training took 7 years as a page and another 7 years as a Squire before becoming a Knight
- Fact 7 - Knights met each other at combined speeds of 60 mph when jousting
- Fact 8 - Lances were measured, so no one knight had a longer lance
- Fact 9 - The word Squire is derived from the French words "Esquire, Escuyer" which originally meant 'shield bearer'
- Fact 10 - The death-blow a knight gave to his mortally wounded opponent was called a Coup de Grace
- Fact 11 - Pavilions were the name given to the bright, round medieval tents of alternating colors which housed the knights and their surgeons
- Fact 12 - 'Dubbing' was a blow struck with the flat of the hand or the side of the sword and was regarded as an essential act of the knighting ceremony
- Fact 13- At the end of the Knighthood ceremony a Knight could claim the title "Sir"
- Fact 14 - A disgraced Knight had his spurs hacked off and his shield was hung upside down as a sign of dishonor
- Fact 15 - Full Plate Armour was introduced during the 15th century weighing approximately 50 lbs
- Fact 16 - Of the seventeen entries in the Knights Code of Chivalry, according to the Song of Roland, at least twelve relate to acts of chivalry as opposed to combat
- Fact 17 - The Joust was an individual tournament event whereas the Melee was a team event
- Fact 18 - A vassal or squire was employed by the Knight to act as his 'Kipper'. A Kipper was expected to collect the 'Spoils of Combat' during a tournament
- Fact 19 - A grandstand, called a Berfrois, was built a full story above the level of the lists which housed the ladies and other noble spectators of jousting tournaments
- Fact 20 - The Knight's warhorse was armored and trained to kill. These massive horses were called Destriers.
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