The white knight is a Chess -piece, often associated with the abstract battle of good against evil. This is the origin of most of the other meanings. See also Black Knight .
The White Knight is a character in '' Through The Looking Glass '' by Lewis Carroll . Based on the chess-piece - and the author, this character is a bumbling but kindly old man with a penchant for useless inventions.
The White Knight is an extinct hereditary Anglo-Norman title of nobility used in Ireland - see Edmund Fitzgibbon for a holder of the title in the Tudor Period .
The White Knight was once a peasant and eventually became a knight and was the main hero in the Legend of the 8 colored Knights, his ultimate nemesis: the Black Knight.