A page was a young apprentice to a knight in medieval times. Around the age of 7 young boys of better status were apprenticed. They would spend hours training and learning to read and speak Latin from monks. Ladies taught them to dance, sing and play games. When not training, Pages would play ball, marbles or other games. One favorite was to tilt with toy men and horses. Pages would also sometimes receive the honor of playing chess with their master.

As Pages grew, so did their responsibilities, they would serve the knight his meals and tended to many of his needs. Pages wore cloth tops and what appeared to be tights, the same type for years. Their only weapons were small knives in belt sheaths.

Pages were usually trained in pairs or larger groups, not alone. Pages could ride, fight, sing, play, dance, read, and a lot more. Pages graduated from pagehood at the age of 14, when they became Squires.

Pages, Squires and knights were all part of the feudal system, specifically the part that fought. They protected the other two parts, those who prayed and those who worked. The system Knights were under was the code of chivalry, or a series of rules that they lived by. The rules basically were that they could not attack, fight, or kill an unarmed man; they were to only fight for Christian or noble purposes. The code of chivalry evolved through the ages so far so that finally knights didn’t fight as much for money as they did for honor, patriotism, and show.