Medieval Knights Chess Set - 17"Skillful Protectors, Legendary heroes, honorable men. STORYTELLING Renaissance had its undoubted protagonists: Knights have been evolved from the iron masked soldiers of the Middle Ages to the idolized heroes of higher nobility. Through Europe they were named Knights, Sirs, Musketeers or Guardians and were portrayed as the ideal men. With their own code of honor, knighthoods ideals of virtue was immortalized in history through Renaissance literature