I know it’s not a historically accurate film, to say the least, but in ‘A Knight’s Tale’ the Black Prince transparently bluffs that his heralds have discovered noble blood in the peasant protagonist’s ancestry and consequently knights him. Did such declarations occur and would they be likely to be believed/accepted?

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There are certainly examples of rich merchants buying their way into the nobility, and faking their ancestry. 

Edward the Black Prince fighting in a tourney in France literally as the Battle of Poitiers is being fought is probably the bigger fudge, but if strict accuracy was required, it would have been more plausible if William Thatcher was a merchant’s son. 

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