Editing Chivalry (section)

===End of chivalry===
Chivalry was dynamic; it adjusted in response to local situations, and this probably led to its demise. There were many chivalric groups in [[England]] as imagined by [[Sir Thomas Malory]] when he wrote ''[[Le Morte d'Arthur]]'' in the late 15th century;<ref>{{harvp|Hodges|2005|p=5}}</ref> perhaps each group created its own chivalric ideology. Malory's perspective reflects the condition of 15th-century chivalry.<ref>{{harvp|Hodges|2005|p=7}}</ref> When ''Le Morte d'Arthur'' was printed, [[William Caxton]] urged knights to read the romance with an expectation that reading about chivalry could unite a community of knights already divided by the [[Wars of the Roses]].<ref>{{harvp|Hodges|2005|p=11}}</ref>

During the early [[Tudor dynasty|Tudor rule]] in [[England]], some knights still fought according to that ethos. Fewer knights were engaged in active warfare because battlefields during this century were generally the arena of professional infantrymen, with less opportunity for knights to show chivalry.<ref>{{harvp|Gravett|2008|p=260}}</ref> It was the beginning of the demise of the knight. The rank of knight never faded, but [[Elizabeth I of England|Queen Elizabeth I]] ended the tradition that any knight could create another, making this exclusively the preserve of the monarch.<ref>{{harvp|Gravett|2008|p=267}}</ref> Christopher Wilkins contends that [[Edward Woodville|Sir Edward Woodville]], who rode from battle to battle across Europe and died in 1488 in [[Brittany]], was the last knight errant who witnessed the fall of the Age of Chivalry and the rise of modern European warfare. By the time the Middle Ages came to an end, the code of chivalry was gone.<ref>{{harvp|Wilkins|2010|p=168}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |last1=Hipshon |first1=David |title=Richard III and the Death of Chivalry |date=26 August 2011 |publisher=The History Press |isbn=978-0-7524-6915-7 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=hS47AwAAQBAJ |language=en}}</ref>