>>64686226
It was unrelated to knights but the clergy (a social class). The Vatican was the closets thing to the UN/Hague during that period and tried to deescalate the brutality of war for centuries.

>>64686226
They were everywhere, papal ban or not, and no one gave a fuck. Also, like >>64686243
mentioned, the ban was more about the properties and princes of the church than anyone you’d call a knight.

>>64686226
The Second Council of the Lateran decided in the canon 29 that any sort of missile weapons were forbidden to be used against christians
>We prohibit under anathema that murderous art of crossbowmen and archers, which is hateful to God, to be employed against Christians and Catholics from now on.

The canon 14 also said that jousts are bad
>14. We entirely forbid, moreover, those abominable jousts and tournaments in which knights come together by agreement and rashly engage in showing off their physical prowess and daring, and which often result in human deaths and danger to souls. If any of them dies on these occasions, although penance and viaticum are not to be denied him when he requests them, he is to be deprived of a church burial.
Which to be fair. they were basicaly just massive hooligan braw during this time period

Needless to say, nobody cared (although joust did eventualy changed into something with less collateral damage to the poll of knights of kingdom).

>>64686226
>it's BS that the pope nerfed these because the sweaty tryhard knightfags whined about it
Nah. Pope banned all ranged weapon *when fighting against fellow christians.
Bow, sling and crossbow all were banned at same time.

>super common factoid turns out to be pure chinese whispers yet again