Knights of the Round Table were those men awarded the highest order of Chivalry at the Court of King Arthur in the literary cycle the Matter of Britain. The table at which they met was created to have no head or foot, representing the equality of all the members. Different stories had different numbers of knights, ranging from only 12 to 150 or more. The Winchester Round Table, which dates from the 1270s, lists 25 names of knights.
Sir Thomas Malory describes the Knights' code of chivalry as:
	▪	To never do outrage nor murder
	▪	Always to flee treason
	▪	To by no means be cruel but to give mercy unto him who asks for mercy
	▪	To always do ladies, gentlewomen and widows succor
	▪	To never force ladies, gentlewomen or widows
	▪	Not to take up battles in wrongful quarrels for love or worldly goods