| “ | You have been weighed, you have been measured, and you have been found wanting. In what world could you possibly beat me? | „ |
| ~ Adhemar taunting William. |
Count Adhemar is the main antagonist of the 2001 medieval action movie A Knight's Tale. He is a cruel, arrogant aristocrat who serves as protagonist William Thatcher's main rival in a series of jousting tournaments, and for the affections of a noblewoman named Jocelyn.
He was portrayed by Rufus Sewell, who also played Adam in Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter, Count Armand in The Legend of Zorro, Eric Stark in Bless the Child, Crown Prince Leopold in The Illusionist, John Smith in The Man in the High Castle, and Urshu in Gods of Egypt.
Biography[]
Adhemar defeats William in the final joust of the tournament. In the next tournament, Adhemar and William, the 2 of them, are assigned the tilting of Sir Thomas Colville, but in fact he's really Edward, The Black Prince. Adhemar withdraws while William continues the match.
Adhemar goes to the battlefield and then makes his arrival in London and talks to Jocelyn's father about marrying her. Later Adhemar discovers William with his father and alerts the authorities and has William put in a pillory. But thanks to William's friends and Prince Edward, who knights him Sir William, Sir William returns to confront Adhemar once and for all. But Adhemar cheats by pierceing William's shoulder and hurting him very badly, with an illegal sharpened lance.
William loses by two lances and has got to unhorse Adhemar to beat him. So Sir William requests to be stripped of his armor and Chaucer buys time for him. Sir William tilts against Adhemar and with a crushing blow knocks the count to the ground and vanquishes him.