"He insisted on the carriage being carried by peasants, and I told off a dozen, who bore lit torches in one hand whilst they held up the carriage with the other, with the aid of ropes fastened on either side, so that there was no further danger of our being tumbled into the mud"
According to Louis-Francois Lejeune, one of the funniest things in his entire career was General von Kleist's deep fear of carriages flipping into the mud and the solution to that (to be illustrated in a part 2)
As a captain, Parzival is allowed 3 horses. He bought 3 nearly identical horses and named them all the same thing. Not out of heartlessness, he is just a massively uncreative personality who likes order.