Listeth, lordes, in good entent,
And I wol telle verrayment
Of myrthe and of solas,
Al of a knight was fair and gent
In bataille and in tourneyment;
His name was sire Thopas.
– Geoffrey Chaucer
The Canterbury Tales, The Tale of Sir Thopas. Chaucer himself tells this tale of mirth and pleasure about a knight born in Flanders named Sir Thopas. He was fair and gentle in battle and in tournament, he says.