Answer:
Because the queen wanted the power to decide his fate. His initial punishment was death. Instead they wanted the power over him. Made him find out want women desired and his body was given to them to use as saw fit.
Explanation:
Initially, stopping the punishment due to the Knight for the violence against the maiden and his knightly chauvinism was to make the Knight face a more agonizing punishment.
The Knight showed that he lacked knowledge when he asked about what women want from men. He could not provide the correct answer. For his failure, he had the option of marrying an ugly witch, who revealed to him what women want. A wife only wants total control over her husband.
After pretending to love the ugliest witch, the witch mercifully revealed her true beauty by transforming her physical features. However, the moral of "The Wife of Bath's Tale" is the warning passed to men to understand their weaknesses and end playing double standards. Men should accept that they are morally equivalent to women. Men are no better. After all, it takes two to make a harlot.
Thus, the Knight was not initially punished in "The Wife of Bath's Tale" by Geoffrey Chaucer for raping the maiden so that he could learn some moral lessons and recognize that his chauvinism was a mere show until tested by fire.
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