When Was Chaucer's Knight in 'Ruce'?

Author / Editor
Urban, William.

Title
When Was Chaucer's Knight in 'Ruce'?

Published
Chaucer Review 18 (1984): 347-53

Description
The Knight may have been modeled on (and a compliment to) Henry, Earl of Derby. The expedition to Ruce was not to Russia but to Rossenia, where English crusaded in 1390 and before. The Knight is "the worn-out but noble example of the cherished ideal type of the Chritian warrior."

Chaucer Subjects
Knight and His Tale.