flower of chivalry

The Flower of Chivalry did not go quite so far as that.

After all, did he not bear the title of the Flower of Chivalry?

Who could this flower of chivalry be?

"Alan McLeod was the finest flower of chivalry.

Look at the Comte de la Fere, a type of nobility, a flower of chivalry.

'The very flower of chivalry.'

He knew Richard Coeur-de-Lion, the flower of chivalry, and saw him as he was and "not through a glass darkly."

G. Duby, William Marshal: the Flower of Chivalry trans.

Another acclaimed work was "William Marshal: The Flower of Chivalry" (1985), based on a 13th-century manuscript that featured a forgotten poem.

Murray got over the difficulty by appointing a triumvirate in command: Steward, Constable and Sir Archibald, with the Flower of Chivalry as specific military adviser.

Although he may very well have been guilty, his execution surprised some people, as he was seen as a "flower of chivalry", having acquitted himself well in battle against the Saracens in the past.

LEAD: Richard Howard, poet, translator and critic, has been awarded the annual translation prize by the French-American Foundation for his English version of George Duby's "William Marshal: The Flower of Chivalry," published by Pantheon Books.

Sir William Douglas, known as the Knight of Liddesdale or the Flower of Chivalry obtained the privileges of the barony of Dalkeith, in Midlothian, in 1341, and the barony of Aberdour, in Fife, in 1342.

Later historians and chroniclers would praise Douglas and his guerrillas as "schools of Knighthood", earning him the epithet Flower of Chivalry just as they had praised the his relative the Good Sir James for his guerrilla tactics in the First War of Independence.