knight:what it means

nowordays portuguese don´t know what is a knight oultough they know that the queen apoints many ones stil today . the knight was apointed and made the vow of protect the madens, the poors, the opressed and so he went runing trough the world and so was amadis de gaulla, writen by feliciano de silva,a chavalrie storie made in renaissance that nordays, oultough was writen by a portugues, nordays no portuguese remembers for it as vanished from the country with the medrn press