Jess A
Archmage
Hello all,
I have a character who is the eldest son of a Duke. A snotty, petulant, selfish boy who is nonetheless one of my novel's protagonists. He becomes Duke when his father is dead.
The Duke sends the boy to his younger brother's rural court to become a page and then a squire. The idea is to make him learn to be humble, instead of sending him to the King's court or another Duke's court where he will be 'further corrupted'. The Earl's castle isn't at all flashy and it's in the 'middle of nowhere' with 'no culture'.
The Earl decides the boy makes a crap squire. He's too lazy, too rude, and frankly hasn't mastered anything he should have. His only saving grace is that he is quite cunning.
What happens if the Earl decides he isn't worthy of my world's equivalent of knighthood? It is a noble order, similar to a knight. Can a boy fail as a squire and what happens then? He almost never got past being a page. The boy will become a successful, rich Duke later in the novel nonetheless, but would he be stripped of his title as Squire? I imagine it would cause him a lot of embarrassment.
Any historical examples or simply any ideas?
Thank you in advance.
I have a character who is the eldest son of a Duke. A snotty, petulant, selfish boy who is nonetheless one of my novel's protagonists. He becomes Duke when his father is dead.
The Duke sends the boy to his younger brother's rural court to become a page and then a squire. The idea is to make him learn to be humble, instead of sending him to the King's court or another Duke's court where he will be 'further corrupted'. The Earl's castle isn't at all flashy and it's in the 'middle of nowhere' with 'no culture'.
The Earl decides the boy makes a crap squire. He's too lazy, too rude, and frankly hasn't mastered anything he should have. His only saving grace is that he is quite cunning.
What happens if the Earl decides he isn't worthy of my world's equivalent of knighthood? It is a noble order, similar to a knight. Can a boy fail as a squire and what happens then? He almost never got past being a page. The boy will become a successful, rich Duke later in the novel nonetheless, but would he be stripped of his title as Squire? I imagine it would cause him a lot of embarrassment.
Any historical examples or simply any ideas?
Thank you in advance.