Identifying Gawain - A new perspective: Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, a poem dedicated to a Garter Knight. Sir John Chandos of Radbourne, the Audleys of Staffordshire, the Carmelites and the pentan...

"Sir Gawain and the Green Knight" was a poem dedicated to a Knight of the Order of the Garter, Sir John Chandos of Radbourne, Derbyshire. This English hero of the Hundred Years War died from his wounds on the same day the poem ended, New Years Day. Sir John was a devotee of the Virgin Mary whose emblem he used on shield and surcoat. He founded a Carmelite church in Poitiers. The Carmelites were believed by the church, to be under the special prot...