Filial piety was part of the chivalric code of an honourable knight. A knight-errant (or knight errant,) is a figure of medieval chivalric romance literature. Some legendary sagas overlap generically with the next category, chivalric sagas. Humphrey was the exemplar of the romantic chivalric persona. The aristocrats had adopted most elements of chivalric culture. In many romances, Gawain is depicted as a model for chivalric attribute. Judicial combat took two forms in medieval society, the feat of arms and chivalric combat. It stands in a unique position between medieval chivalric romance and the modern novel. These were fashionable events of chivalric entertainment among young aristocrats. Jeffrey Richards describes a European "medieval masculinity which was essentially Christian and chivalric". The relatively few mentions of elves in the chivalric sagas tend even to be whimsical. Wallace is depicted as an ideal hero in the tradition of chivalric romance. The poem is transformed into a satire of the chivalric tradition. The articles of the association expressed the goal of creating a Traditionalist Catholic chivalric order. In 1934 George V made him a Knight of St Patrick, Ireland's chivalric order.