Knight Errant

One who went forth in quest of adventures, more particularly to win the admiration of fair ladies, by rescuing them, in common with the weak and oppre ed, from the feudal lords whose rapacity in those barbarous ages knew no bounds. The word errant , like its modern equivalent errand , was derived from the Latin errare , to wander. It was in ridicule of this system of knight-errantry that Cervantes wrote his immortal romance “Don Quixote.”