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== Literature ==
* In [[1632]] of course, [[Knight in Shining Armor|Knights in Shining Armor]] were at about the time they would soon evolve into [[Officer and a Gentleman|Officers and Gentlemen.]] In any case there were [[Aristocrats Are Evil|not many of either]] hanging around at the time. But Janos Drugeth, a Hungarian warrior would probably fit. He is extremely honorable and pious,and loyal to his King. He probably does even have a breastplate somewhere among his gear and he probably does keep it polished as rust wouldn't do, which would make that a literal as well as figurative trope. However he is mainly shown wielding a sword which is a [[Combat Pragmatist|mundane]] if well kept sword.▼
* Female examples: Alanna and Kel in [[Tamora Pierce]]'s books. Seen best in ''[[Tortall Universe|Song of the Lioness]]'' when Alana and her apprentices have to defend the Bloody Hawk tribe from being attacked.
* ''[[The Dresden Files]]'': Michael Carpenter, the noble Knight of the Cross, fits this trope to a T. Complete with kevlar-lined shining armour. He even met his wife by saving her from a fire-breathing dragon.
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* In "The Last Hero", one of the earlier novels (1931) of [[The Saint]], Simon Templar takes backstage to his gallant and tragic associate Norman Kent, who falls in love hopelessly with Templar's girlfriend Patricia Holm (who hardly notices him) and at the end of the book sacrifices his life to let Templar and his other comrades-in-arms escape the current villain and fight again another day. A book called "Knights Errant of the Nineeteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries" by Caroline Whitehead and George Mc Leod says it all: "Norman Kent is an archetypal knight-errant. Though formally a man of 20th Century England, he lives (and dies) by the Code of Chivalry. He loves totally his Lady, Patricia Holm - who, like Don Quixote's Dulcinea, is not aware of that love. He is totally loyal to his Liege Lord, Simon Templar. Like Sir Gawain in "Sir Gawain and the Green Knight", Norman Kent takes on the threats to his Lord. Not only physicial threats to life and limb, but also the sometimes inavoidable need to take dishourable acts which would have reflected badly on the reputation of King Arthur/Simon Templar is taken on, wholly and without reservation, by Sir Gawain/Norman Kent."
* John Moore's ''Slay and Rescue'' has a prince named Charming, sent by his father's chancellor to rescue fair maidens all over the place (the theory is that it keeps him too busy to try to take over the throne).
* In [[Devon Monk]]'s ''[[Allie Beckstrom]]'' novel ''Magic to the Bone'', Allie plays with this, speaking of looking for police in shining armor and the like.
▲* In the early 17th century in which the [[1632|''Ring of Fire'' novels]]
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