History - Roger de Soterley of Soterley, Knight

Armor and Equipment. 

To be a knight meant to be well-equipped.  This would included, horses, weapons and armor, attendants, and the knight's flag.

Horses. No knight was properly equipped without at least three horses.  This would include the battle horse, or dexterarius, which was led by hand, and used only for the onset (hence the saying, "to mount one's high horse"), a second horse, palfrey or courser, for the route, and the pack-horse for the luggage.

Weapons.  The primary offensive weapons of a knight were the lance for the encounter and the sword for the close fight.  Sir Roger would also have carried daggers, a mace, axes, falchions (a weapon like a butcher's cleaver), and other pointed weapons.  At the time Sir Roger was a knight, his armor probably consisted of chain mail rather than plate armor, as this cam a bit later.  Sir Roger would also have carried a shield as a defensive weapon.

Attendants.  The knight required several attendants: one to conduct the horses, another to bear the heaviest weapons, particularly the shield, a third to aid his master to mount his battle horse or to raise him if dismounted, and a fourth to guard prisoners, chiefly those of quality, for whom a high ransom was expected.  These attendants, who were of low rank, are not to be confused with the armed retainers, who formed the escort of a knight. If Sir Roger was charged with a squire, this young man would also go armed and mounted.  Any pages would have accompanied Sir Roger to the tournament or joust but it is not likely they would have accompanied him into battle.

Flags.  Banners were also a distinctive mark of chivalry. They were attached to, and carried on, the lance. There was a sharp distinction between the pennon, a flag pointed or forked at the extremity, used by a single knight as a personal ensign, and the banner, square in form, used as the ensign of a band and reserved to the baron or baronet in command of a group of at least ten knights, called a constabulary. Each flag or banner was emblazoned with the arms of its owner to distinguish one from another at the tournament or joust and on the battlefield. These armorial bearings afterwards became hereditary and gave birth to the complicated science of heraldry.