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Interesting. 

Most people see the knights primary weapon being his longsword. Your knighted with it, often their given names (while lances as far as I know are not) often passed down to relatives, though that's not specific to knights/nobles.  

With the the battle of barnet being largely on foot and fought with entirely with swords (despite everyone and their mother being in heavy plated mail of the late middle ages), I actually have a hard time seeing the knights main weapon being his lance. An important one, but one he can largely live without historically.  

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I think the almost ceremonial nature of swords suggests they weren't necessarily the most efficient tool of war. The lance was a very expendable weapon, it got used, it broke, but it's also perfect for mounted combat for that reason. You can afford to ride over, stab something long and pointy into your foe and leave it behind stuck in them (where-as dropping your sword left you SOL) and then ride back to pick up a new one. The lance might not be the main weapon of a knight, but it was definitely the main weapon of cavalry in west Europe, and as far as I know, Knights were predominantly cavalry.

I'd have to do more research, but I think the lance was definitely more synonymous with Knights then the sword, though in actuality it would be safer to say both weapons were synonymous with the Knight, with the lance used as a primary weapon for the charge, and the sword used if melee was engaged. 

Doing a massively flawed wikipedia search but it does have some interesting insights into Knights, suggesting they originate from Equites, which any fan of Total War Atilla will tell you were Roman Cavalrymen from the lower tiers of aristocracy, definitely fitting the medieval Knight. 

None of this of course stops you from just fighting as a dismounted Knight, but in some ways I feel the Knight was always meant to fight on horseback, which puts me off in Arena (unless you were going to conduct a Cavalry duel, which is something I've never seen before)