# Ulrich Von Lichtenstein

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ulrich-von-lichtenstein/154995>\
**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [February 14, 2003, 3:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ulrich-von-lichtenstein/154995 "2003-02-14T03:51:29Z")\
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**Author:** ![mr.splitfoot](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/8e8cbc/32.png) [@mr.splitfoot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mr.splitfoot)\
**Post date:** [February 14, 2003, 3:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ulrich-von-lichtenstein/154995/1 "2003-02-14T03:51:29Z")

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I’ve just read a tiny article on Ulrich, and his life sounds rediculously untrue. However, my search on the net hasn’t given me much. Anyone got any info?

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**Author:** ![Fern\_Forest](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/71c47a/32.png) [@Fern\_Forest](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fern_Forest)\
**Post date:** [February 14, 2003, 3:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ulrich-von-lichtenstein/154995/2 "2003-02-14T03:59:51Z")

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It’s a fictional [movie.](http://us.imdb.com/Title?0183790)

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**Author:** ![BuckleberryFerry](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/5f9b8f/32.png) [@BuckleberryFerry](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BuckleberryFerry)\
**Post date:** [February 14, 2003, 4:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ulrich-von-lichtenstein/154995/3 "2003-02-14T04:02:12Z")

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Dude, that’d be Heath Ledger playing William Thatcher playing Sir U.

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> Quoth “Chaucer”  
> My lords, my ladies, and everybody else here NOT sitting on a cushion, today, TODAY, you find yourselves equals! For you are all equally blessed. I have the pride, the privilege, nay, the pleasure, of introducing you to a knight sired by knights. A knight who can trace his lineage back beyond Charlamagne. I first met him atop a mountain in Jerusalem, praying to God, asking his forgivness for the Saracen blood spilt by his sword. Next he amazed me still further in Italy, when he saved a fatherless beauty from the would-be ravishings of her dreadful Turkish uncle. In Greece he spent a year in silence, just to better understand the sound of a whisper. So without further gilding the lily and with no more ado, I give to you the Seeker of Serenity, the Protector of Italian Virginity, the enforcer of our Lord God! The one, the only, Sir Ulrich von Lichtenstein!

God Bless _A Knight’s Tale_!

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**Author:** ![Ice\_Wolf](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/dfb087/32.png) [@Ice\_Wolf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ice_Wolf)\
**Post date:** [February 14, 2003, 4:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ulrich-von-lichtenstein/154995/4 "2003-02-14T04:11:37Z")

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Folks, there’s also [_real_ ones](http://www.bartleby.com/65/ul/Ulrichvo.html) out there.

Which one is the OP referring to? [Here’s the (English only) Google search.](http://www.google.co.nz/search?q=%22Ulrich+Von+Lichtenstein%22&hl=en&lr=lang_en&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&start=0&sa=N) The German language one runs into the thousands.