In the Middle Ages, there were all kinds of knights, who were either arrogant, or violent, or lonely, or had a legendary experience of traveling around the world, but today's protagonist Ulrich von Liechtenstein is an amorous seed.
He was born around 1200 to an aristocratic family in the Duchy of Styria (located in the central part of present-day Austria), and he and 249 were knights at the benegoneation of the daughter of Duke Leopold VI of Austria.
After a teenage Ranger life, Ulrich returned to orthodox aristocratic life. From 1244 to 1245 he was governor of the Duchy of Styria. In 1247, Philippe von Spenheim was elected Archbishop of Salzburg, but in order to retain the right to inherit his brother Ulrich III, Duke of Carinthia, he renounced his clerical status, which led to the revocation of his election by Pope Alexander IV. Philippe von Spenheim raised an army to defend the already acquired Territory of the Archbishop of Salzburg, and in 1250 he arranged a marriage with a powerful nobleman, Ulrich von Liechtenstein, son of Ulrich von Liechtenstein, in order to obtain a rich dowry, and recruited Ulrich von Liechtenstein to fight for it. Ulrich von Liechtenstein provided Philippe von Sppünheim with 100 armed personnel. In August 1252, the army of Philippe von Sppühnheim defeated Meinhard III, Count of Gorizia, and Albert IV, Count of Tirol, at Sachsenburg on the Banks of the Drava River, and won the final victory, with Ulrich von Liechtenstein participating in the post-war peace negotiations as one of the seven men. After continuing his conquest and administration for decades, he acquired three castles and died on 26 January 1275, where he was buried in the Benedictine monastery of Secaucus. Ulrich's military career was not very dazzling, and he was the representative of a small number of european aristocrats at that time.
The knight Ulrich von Liechtenstein is depicted in manese's manuscript, and he is pictured preparing to go to a tournament
Stills from the movie "Knights of the Holy War", the protagonist William uses the pseudonym Ulrich von Liechtenstein
But the protagonist of the movie "Knight of the Holy War" takes his name as a pseudonym in the play purely because his semi-autobiographical works are as wonderful as the script: "Serving the Lady "Frauendienst") and "The Book of the Lady (Frauenbuch)", which are also important works on the chivalry and spiritual love of the Middle Ages, which detail his half-truth and half-false court love experience.
According to his own account, Ulrich fell in love with his goddess at the age of 12, when he was still her attendant, and Ulrich vowed to serve his sweetheart like a Ranger knight, proving his loyalty and love for her through martial arts. The man he pursued was older than him, of noble birth, which was correct and appropriate in court love, but the goddess rejected him contemptuously, on the grounds that he was not only nameless, but also had ugly rabbit lips, which may not be an exaggeration, perhaps his appearance was indeed flawed, so much so that Ulrich did not speak of his own appearance. But Ulrich did not give up on his pursuit, he operated on his lips and began to travel extensively, establishing his prestige by touring the world in competitions.
Surgery on the rabbit lip was not the only physical sacrifice Ulrich made, after the rabbit lip surgery, Ulrich was unable to eat for a long time, and the plaster made his wound smell very bad, but he enjoyed it, saying that although the flesh was painful, the psychology was full of happiness. Later in Trieste, his hand was hit, a finger was almost knocked down, only a little skin was connected to the hand, although the surgeon had a way to keep this finger, he still wrote to his sweetheart that he had lost the finger, and when the goddess questioned him that he was lying, Ulrich found a friend to cut it off and sent it to the goddess, and attached a love poem. Although the goddess accepted this creepy gift, she remained indifferent to the mad gesture of love of the knight.
Then the strangest part of the already bizarre story begins: Ulrich, in the name of Tovinas, writes a letter to the knights of northern Italy and Bohemia, challenging them to prove their love for their sweethearts, that every knight who interrupts his opponent's riding of a gun wins a golden ring for his goddess; and that every knight he has knocked off his horse bows to the lady of Ulrich (who at this time has not yet revealed his identity and is still in a state of secrecy).
At each point of the tour, he appeared in a Venus costume: dressed in a robe, a white velvet shawl, a white veil and a blonde wig, accompanied by a group of white-clad retinues and attendants. Many knights welcomed him in the name of Eros, invited him to banquets and celebrations, and fought against him in the strongest lineup in the arena. A knight wore a monk's robe outside his armor, and his helmet was covered with a layer of the monk's circular circle of hair. At first Ulrich refused to fight him, for Ulrich it was acceptable to wear a woman's clothes in a knightly event, but not a monk's clothes, and when the other knights persuaded him to accept the challenge, he vowed to make the knight pay for his blasphemy, and he would hit the other man's helmet and beat him unconscious.
Ulrich's "Journey to Venus" lasted for five weeks, during which Ulrich was involved in several group duels and heads-ups at the same time, he interrupted a total of 307 mounted guns of various opponents, rewarded 271 gold rings, his name spread in southern Germany, but he felt that he had not done enough for his sweetheart, he had to endure more insults on the road to pursue her, and at one point he finally got the hint that the goddess was willing to favor him, and gladly could not disguise himself as a leper, Hiding outside the castle of the beloved while waiting for the goddess's alms, but
He was peed on by a guard who didn't recognize him. On another occasion, his goddess again expressed her admiration for his loyalty and hinted at her willingness to see him, on the condition that he hang outside the castle like a piece of paper, and Ulrich agreed, climbing up the rope that the maid had lowered, only to climb halfway through the maid's sudden release of the rope, causing the unfortunate Ulrich to fall to the bottom of the tower. Ulrich, who has been frustrated many times, summed it up adorably: Only a fool would pursue what he wants indefinitely without reciprocation.
Eventually, when he decided to go on the Crusades and tell the goddess about it, his sweetheart finally gave his love for him, even though Ulrich didn't tell us how she did it. Whether Ulrich's story is true or not, these stories embody the true nature of chivalry at the heart of chivalry at its height in the Middle Ages as a perfect combination of court love and chivalrous virtue.