David

====Middle Ages====
[[File:Arms of Ireland (Variant 1) (Historical).svg|thumb|left|upright=0.75|Coat of arms [[attributed arms|attributed]] to King David by mediaeval heralds.<ref>{{cite book|title=Lindsay of the Mount Roll |last=Lindsay of the Mount |first=Sir David|author-link=David Lyndsay|date=1542 |url=https://archive.org/stream/facsimileofancie00lind#page/n49/mode/2up|publisher=Edinburgh, W. & D. Laing |access-date=2015-06-21|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160203022459/https://archive.org/stream/facsimileofancie00lind#page/n49/mode/2up|archive-date=2016-02-03}}</ref> (Identical to the [[Coat of arms of Ireland|arms of Ireland]])]]

In European [[Christian culture]] of the [[Middle Ages]], David was made a member of the [[Nine Worthies]], a group of heroes encapsulating all the ideal qualities of [[chivalry]]. His life was thus proposed as a valuable subject for study by those aspiring to chivalric status. This aspect of David in the Nine Worthies was popularised first through literature, and thereafter adopted as a frequent subject for painters and sculptors.

David was considered a model ruler and a symbol of [[Divine right of kings|divinely ordained monarchy]] throughout medieval [[Western Europe]] and [[Eastern Europe|Eastern]] [[Christendom]]. He was perceived as the biblical predecessor to Christian Roman and Byzantine emperors and the name "New David" was used as an honorific reference to these rulers.<ref name=Garipzanov>{{cite book|last1=Garipzanov|first1=Ildar H.|title=The Symbolic Language of Royal Authority in the Carolingian World (c. 751–877)|publisher=Brill|isbn=978-9004166691|pages=128, 225|year=2008}}</ref> The [[Kingdom of Georgia|Georgian]] [[Bagrationi|Bagratids]] and the [[Solomonic dynasty]] of [[Empire of Ethiopia|Ethiopia]] claimed direct [[Claim of the biblical descent of the Bagrationi dynasty|biological descent]] from him.<ref>{{cite book|last=Rapp|first=Stephen H. Jr. |title=Imagining History at the Crossroads: Persia, Byzantium, and the Architects of the Written Georgian Past |date=1997|publisher=Ph.D. dissertation, University of Michigan|page=528}}</ref> Likewise, kings of the [[Franks|Frankish]] [[Carolingian dynasty]] frequently connected themselves to David; [[Charlemagne]] himself occasionally used "David" his pseudonym.<ref name=Garipzanov/>