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When someone wants to initiate a challenge, he throws down the gauntlet. The person challenged can decide to leave the piece of armor on the ground or he can pick it up. Picking the glove up meant that a person accepted the challenge laid before him. This piece of clothing was considered an essential piece of protection for a soldier or a knight. In Medieval and earlier times, it was primarily used to protect the hand of a combatant. The glove could be made out of leather, chain mail or out of s

In spite of what's shown in film and what's written in modern day romances, knighting ceremonies weren't always full of long nights spent in prayer. Nor were there day long celebrations of the advancement of a squire to knighthood. The ceremony had humble beginnings with a practical purpose in mind.The earliest accounts of any formal knighting ceremony come in the 12th century. With its roots tied to the coming-of-age ceremony among Germanic youth in the 11th century, the invention of knighthood