Nine Worthies

Each of the Nine Worthies were given a coat of arms.

As a group, the nine worthies represents all facets of the perfectly chivalrous warrior.

The Nine Worthies usually appeared in secular contexts.

The Nine Worthies are known in Spanish as los nueve de la fama.

The Nine Worthies comprise a triad of triads as follows:

Noteworthy are stone figures of the Nine Worthies, the Emperor and the Privileges.

Charlemagne, being a model knight as one of the Nine Worthies, enjoyed an important afterlife in European culture.

Montacute House has sculptures of the nine worthies spaced along the upper eastern façade on the exterior of the long gallery piers.

He is one of the Nine Worthies of London mentioned by Richard Johnson in his book of 1592.

He became a favorite hero in popular tales, and appeared in Richard Johnson's Nine Worthies of London in 1592.

Lefranc also provided further details on the role of the Nine Worthies, arguing that the play referred to tapestries depicting the subject in Navarre.

As a result of his philanthropy, he was listed in Richard Johnson's Nine Worthies of London in 1592.

William Sevenoke is one of Richard Johnson's Nine Worthies of London (1592).

In medieval Europe he was made a member of the Nine Worthies, a group of heroes who encapsulated all the ideal qualities of chivalry.

The conduit painted--the nine worthies--ay!

The situation of the workmen awkwardly performing their amateur theatricals is similar to the show of the Nine Worthies in Love's Labour's Lost.

Thou art as valorous as Hector of Troy, worth five of Agamemnon, and ten times better than the Nine Worthies.

This aspect of David in the Nine Worthies was popularised firstly through literature, and was thereafter adopted as a frequent subject for painters and sculptors.

Medieval literature attributed coats of arms to the Nine Worthies, including Alexander the Great, Julius Caesar, and King Arthur.

The Nine Worthies are nine historical, scriptural and legendary personages who personify the ideals of chivalry as were established in the Middle Ages.

In the late fourteenth century, Lady Worthies began to accompany the Nine Worthies, though usually not individualized and shown as anonymous Amazon-styled warriors.

In Shakespeare's Love's Labour's Lost, he is enacted along with the other Nine Worthies, but heckled for sharing a name with Judas Iscariot.

He suggested that the comic scenes in Love's Labour's Lost were influenced by a pageant of the Nine Worthies only ever performed in Derby's home town of Chester.

With the true legend of famous King Arthur the last of the nine Worthies, being the first Essay of a new Brytish Poet: collected out of diuerse Authenticall Records.

According to William Lambarde and Richard Johnson (Nine Worthies of London), Sevenoke was a foundling, whose decision to establish the school and almshouses may have been inspired by his early history.