{"id":11,"date":"2016-04-23T21:02:46","date_gmt":"2016-04-24T04:02:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/traumjaeger.com\/wordpress\/?p=11"},"modified":"2023-08-06T14:32:38","modified_gmt":"2023-08-06T21:32:38","slug":"bradamante","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.traumjaeger.com\/chance\/2016\/04\/23\/bradamante\/","title":{"rendered":"Bradamante, Knightly Niece of Charlemagne"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\" align=\"CENTER\"><em>These are things I&#8217;ve heard or read. Are they so? <\/em><em>I do not know,<br \/>\n<\/em><em>I was not there.<br \/>\n<\/em><em>If it&#8217;s truth you seek, please proceed with caution and with care.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #111111;\"><span style=\"font-family: inherit;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">Charlemagne, King of the Franks, and Emperor of the West, reigned from 768 to 814. From the 12th century through the late 19th, tales of Charlemagne and his peers, the paladins, were mainstream, wide-spread elements of popular culture.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #111111;\"><span style=\"font-family: inherit;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">A leading figure within these tales is \u201cthe knight of the white plume and shield\u201d, perhaps the original white knight, Charlemagne\u2019s legendary niece, Bradamante.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #111111;\"><span style=\"font-family: inherit;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">During her adventures, Bradamante:<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"color: #111111;\"><span style=\"font-family: inherit;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">Casually defeats Sacripant, king of Circassia.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #111111;\"><span style=\"font-family: inherit;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">Discovers Merlin&#8217;s tomb.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #111111;\"><span style=\"font-family: inherit;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">Outwits Brunello, a crafty thief with a ring which can make him invisible.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #111111;\"><span style=\"font-family: inherit;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">Outwits the enchanter, Atlantes.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #111111;\"><span style=\"font-family: inherit;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">Rescues the knight Rogero, her future husband.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #111111;\"><span style=\"font-family: inherit;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">Repels an invasion of the ancient port city of Marseilles.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #111111;\"><span style=\"font-family: inherit;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">Challenges any who might wish to wed her to prove themselves worthy through facing her in day-long combat.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #111111;\"><span style=\"font-family: inherit;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">Becomes Empress of the Bulgarians.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"color: #111111;\"><span style=\"font-family: inherit;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">She is a legendary ancestress of the royal houses of England, Denmark, Norway, and Spain, as well as the House of Estes, lords of the onetime dukedom of Ferrara.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<h1 class=\"western\"><\/h1>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>These are things I&#8217;ve heard or read. Are they so? I do not know, I was not there. If it&#8217;s truth you seek, please proceed with caution and with care. Charlemagne, King of the Franks, and Emperor of the West, reigned from 768 to 814. From the 12th century through the late 19th, tales of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[3,5,37],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.traumjaeger.com\/chance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.traumjaeger.com\/chance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.traumjaeger.com\/chance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.traumjaeger.com\/chance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.traumjaeger.com\/chance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"http:\/\/www.traumjaeger.com\/chance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":123,"href":"http:\/\/www.traumjaeger.com\/chance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11\/revisions\/123"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.traumjaeger.com\/chance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.traumjaeger.com\/chance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.traumjaeger.com\/chance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}