Black knight (disambiguation)
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)
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