Black Knight

A black knight is a literary stock character.

Black Knight or Black Knights can also refer to:

Most common meanings

• Black Knight (Arthurian legend), any of several knights clad in black armor in Arthurian legend
• Knights Hospitaller, known by their black mantles
• The black knight (chess)

Personal nickname

• Ralph de Ashton (fl. 1421–1486), an officer of state under Edward IV of England
• Zawisza Czarny (c. 1379-1428), Polish knight and diplomat
• Gary Player (born 1935), South African professional golfer
• Eduard Ritter von Schleich (1888-1947), Bavarian World War I flying ace and World War II Luftwaffe general
• James Stewart, the Black Knight of Lorn (c. 1383-after 1451)

Military

• 57th Fighter-Interceptor Squadron, a USAF fighter squadron known as "The Black Knights of Keflavik"
• VFA-154, a US Navy fighter squadron nicknamed "The Black Knights"
• VMFA-314, a US Marine Corps fighter squadron nicknamed "The Black Knights"
• VMM-264, a US Marine Corps tiltrotor squadron nicknamed "The Black Knights"
• RSAF Black Knights, a precision aerobatics team of the Republic of Singapore Air Force
• "The Black Knights", the display team of No. 54 Squadron RAF in the 1950s
• 5th Cavalry Regiment, a United States Army unit referred to as "The Black Knights"

Sports

• Black Knight (horse) (1979–2002), Australian Thoroughbred racehorse
• Army Black Knights, the nickname of the sporting teams of the United States Military Academy
• Black Knights, the sports teams and (singular) mascot at:
  • Baltimore City College, Baltimore, Maryland
  • Charlottesville High School, Charlottesville, Virginia
• Las Vegas Black Knights, a name considered for the Vegas Golden Knights

Technology and aerospace

• Black Knight (rocket), part of the British rocketry program in the 1950s
• Black Knight (vehicle), an unmanned ground vehicle designed by BAE Systems
• Black Knight satellite, an unknown object supposedly in polar orbit around Earth
• TrES-2b, an exoplanet colloquially known as "Black Knight" due to its darkness
• Vincent Black Knight, a British motorcycle made between 1954 and 1955 by Vincent Motorcycles

Biology

• Camacinia othello, a species of dragonfly

Arts, entertainment, and media

Comics

• The Black Knight (comics), a 1998 Scrooge McDuck story

Fictional entities

• Black Knight (comics), several Marvel Comics characters
• Black Knight (Monty Python), in the film Monty Python and the Holy Grail
• Arpine Lusène, a villain in several Scrooge McDuck stories nicknamed Le Chevalier Noir (The Black Knight)
• Victor Newman, from the CBS soap opera The Young and the Restless, called the Black Knight
• The Black Knight, from the Fire Emblem: Path of Radiance and Fire Emblem: Radiant Dawn games
• The Black Knights, a fictional resistance movement in the anime series Code Geass

Film

• The Black Knight (1954 film), a film starring Alan Ladd
• Black Knight (film), a 2001 film starring Martin Lawrence

Games

• Black Knight (pinball), a pinball game by Williams Electronics
• MechWarrior 4: Black Knight, an expansion pack of the computer game MechWarrior 4: Vengeance
• Sonic and the Black Knight

Literature

• Black Knight (Poetry), a poem by R J Devgowdankur Birendranath Sengupta

Manga

• Black Knight (manga), a yaoi manga by Kai Tsurugi

Music

Groups

• Black Knights (rap group), affiliated with The Wu-Tang Clan
• The Black Knights (band), a Mersey Beat band

Works

• The Black Knight (Elgar), a symphony/cantata written by Edward Elgar in 1889-1893

Other uses

• Buddleja davidii 'Black Knight', a plant cultivar
• Knight of Glin or Black Knight, an Irish hereditary knighthood
• Black Knight, a ghost that supposedly haunts Fort Manoel

See also

• Black Night
• Blackest Knight
• Blackest Night
• Dark Knight (disambiguation)
• Darkest Knight
• Darkest Night (disambiguation)
• White Knight (disambiguation)