To be honest... even at my level I try to defeat those things from a distance. Whenever I try to fight those things 1 on 1, they break my defense in just two hits, which has me running away to replenish stamina.

I started as a thief, so my defense wasn't that great, but I had good speed. Currently all my stats (except miracle or whatever it was called) are about equally at 30, since I wanted magic and speed... but didn't want to remain low on strenght for the lowly enemies.

Lately I tend to use lots of arrows and death cloud... So I guess you could say my chara is a Magic Archer or something... the New Game Plus are just plain scary. A fucking Dreadling killed me on New Game Plus <___<

Anyway... best way to confront the Red Eye Knight 1 on 1 would be to approach it, in order to lure it to strike, walk backwards (while keeping the Lock Sight on) so its strike misses you, then press forward and attack. I don't recommed trying to stop its attacks with the shield... he probably is strong enough to break your defense and stagger you to doom. He's the strongest enemy on normal 1-1 for something.