i don't think anyone knows how much i was hoping this was a parody of the movie given it's name.. also medieval setting but no beard of any sort? what is this MC a wimpy pampered noble that was spoon fed with a silver spoon shoved up his ass?
Knights where clean shaven,we know this because of written commentary at various times and by different scribes of the court, and you can pretty much pick any court you want from Britain to France, even down to Spain and slightly further afield, knights are described in exquisite detail. It was part of their military decree to be presentable and clean shaven at all times especially to the nobles when they held court, and even to the savages outside the walls. You see the media's portrayal of people is very often very wrong, just like Hollywood is. If you served in the military, you need to be clean shave every day, and on parade your pretty much always inspected. cotton wool across the face, if any part of it sticks to your face your in the shit big time can even be put on a charge if it happens frequently enough. Knights > Military. Knights where never fed with a silver spoon. When they where squires they where treated like utter shit. You followed your liege (knight) on foot into battle, with no armor. Its true that most squires where killed on the battlefield. The ones that where not, where continuously tested time and time again. They most certainly never had any kind of easy life. They could and where frequently killed in training. I would hardly call that being fed with a silver spoon. The only people who where fed with silver and gold spoons, where in the bred royalty who thought they where completely above everyone else and proclaimed themselves rulers, usually stole the land from people, had them killed and then had drafts drawn up so could legally take it in the eyes of the law, the law written by them. Squires where chosen, for their abilities and intelligence, but some where chosen from the gentry. Once chosen they had no choice but to serve. Consider it a form of conscription in the middle ages because that is how squires where chosen.
I agree with your comment that the knight is > wimpy. I would actually call him effeminate. I would also call him a cuckold to his own wife. The wife really needs to go. There is not one redeeming thing I like about her at all and she is too powerful in the story. This is about the knight not his whore wife but you wouldn#t have guessed it.
Story takes an age to get anywhere, before he meets his squire. It's just mindless babble until he gets to the city. Then its mindless babble while he trains her, and his wife is messing around with the young maid. Either the wife needs writing out, preferably or she needs toning down massively. Women did not behave this way in the middle ages, and being bisexual? hanging was quite common, so was drawing and quartering too and in any kind of reality she would not have escaped that end.