<Li> Hardihood: The quality of hardy aligns itself with forbearance and loyalty in being one of the military virtues of the preudomme . According to Philip de Navarra, a mature nobleman should have acquired hardiness as part of his moral virtues . Geoffrey de Charny also stressed on the masculine respectability of hardiness in the light of religious feeling of the contemptus mundi . </Li> <Li> Largesse or Liberality: generosity was part of a noble quantity . According to Alan of Lille, largesse was not just a simple matter of giving away what he had, but "Largitas in a man caused him to set no store on greed or gifts, and to have nothing but contempt for bribes ." </Li> <Li> The davidic ethic: It is the strongest qualities of preudomme derived by clerics from Biblical tradition . Originally it was a set of expectations of good rulership articulated by the Frankish church which involved the rightful authority based on protection for the weak and helpless (in particular the Church), respect for widows and orphans, and opposition to the cruel and unjust . The core of Davidic ethic is benevolence of the strong toward the weak . </Li> <Li> Honour: honour was what was achieved by living up to the ideal of the preudomme and pursuing the qualities and behaviour listed above . The loss of honour is a humiliation to a man's standing and is worse than death . Bertran de Born said: "For myself I prefer to hold a little piece of land in onor, than to hold a great empire with dishonor". </Li>

The knightly code of ethics known as chivalry