Chapter C: Calais, stories regarding, II. 17-21

_Calatrava_, order of, its origin and history, I. 349.

_Calaynos_, the Moor, praised by the Spaniards, II. 234.

_Carlisle_, Sir Anthony Harclay, Earl of, ceremonies of his degradation
from knighthood, I. 62-64.

_Carpet-knights_, meaning of the term, II. 156.

_Carpio_, Bernardo del, account of, II. 243.

_Cavalry_, the principal arm of military power during the middle ages,
I. 2.

_Caxton_, his lamentation over the decline of chivalry, II. 99.
His exaggeration of the evil, 102.

_Celts_, humility of Celtic youths, I. 6.

_Cervantes_, curious error made by, I. 20.
Censures the chivalric custom of making vows, 129. note.
Satirises chivalric contempt of bodily pain, 368. note.
Ridicules the vigil of arms, I. 49. note.
and the pride of knights, I. 393. note.
Accuracy of his pictures, II. 297.

_Cesena_, noble defence of, by Marzia degl' Ubaldini, I. 249.

_Chandos_, Sir John, story with the Earl of Oxenford, I. 38.
History of his heroism, II. 46.
Gallantry, 47.
Tenacious of his armorial bearings, ib.
Exploits at Auray, 49.
Tries to dissuade the Black Prince from the Spanish war, 50.
Ceremonies on his becoming a knight-banneret, ib.
His remarkable generousness, 52.
His death before the bridge of Lusac, 60, &c.
General grief thereat, 63.

_Character_, bluntness of the old English, shown at the creation of
knights of the Bath, II. 165.

_Charity_, a great chivalric virtue, instance of, I. 161.

_Charter-house_, the, founded by Sir Walter Manny, II. 42. and note.

_Charlemagne_, state of chivalry in his time, I. 10.
His expedition into Spain, II. 244.

_Chargny_, Lord of, a famous jouster, II. 298.
His passage of arms near Dijon, I. 328.

_Cherbury_, Edward Herbert, Lord of, memoir of him, II. 138.
Chivalric fame of his family, ib.
His vanity, 140-145.
Made a knight of the Bath, 141.
His curious adventures in France, 142.
The disgusting vanity of his infidelity, 147.
His general character, 148.
His inferiority to the heroes of the reign of Edward III., 149.

_Chess_, the high favour of this game in days of chivalry, I. 163.
A story of a knight's love of chess, 164.

_Chivalry_, general oath of, I. 50.
Form used in Scotland, II. 70.
Exhortations to perform chivalric obligations, I. 51, 52.
Beauty of chivalric costume, I. 65.
First ages of, interesting to the reason, but not pleasing to the
fancy, I. 1.
Difference between feudal and moral chivalry, I. 3.
Origin of, ib.
Nature of, 2.
Modified by Christianity, 9, 13.
Early ceremonies of inauguration, 4. 11, 12.
Personal nobility of, not to be confounded with feudal territorial
nobility, 16.
Morals of chivalric times unjustly censured, 229.
Real state of them, ib. &c.
Peculiar fineness of chivalric feeling, 277. note.
Declined in France before the common use of gunpowder, II. 213.
Recapitulation of the circumstances which gave birth to, 341.
Its general nature, 342.
Exact time of its influence difficult to mark, 346.
Its merits, 348.
Its effects, 358.
Application of chivalric honours to men in civil stations, 155.
Connected with feudalism, I. 384.
A compulsory honour in England, 386.

_Christianity_, its improvements on Gothic chivalry, I. 10.

_Cid_, the, his birth, II. 246.
His early ferocious heroism, ib.
His singular marriage, 247.
Enters the service of King Ferdinand, 249.
His chivalric gallantry, ib.
Ceremony of his being knighted, 251.
Death of the King ib.
Becomes the knight of Sancho, King of Castile, and his campeador, 252.
Mixture of evil and good in his character, ib.
Supports the King in his injustice, 253.
His romantic heroism, ib.
His virtuous boldness, 256.
His second marriage, 260.
Is banished from the court of Alfonso, the brother of Sancho, 261.;
but recalled ib.
Is banished again, 263.
Story of his unchivalric meanness, ib.
His history in exile, 264.
His nobleness and generosity, 267.
Is recalled, 269.
Captures Toledo, 270.;
and Valentia, 271.
Unjust conduct to the Moors, 274.
Marriage of his daughters, 276.
His death, 284.;
and character, 285.

_Claremont_, the Lord of, his dispute with Sir John Chandos regarding
armorial cognisances, II. 47.

_Clary_, the Lord of, singular story of the censure on him by the court
of France for want of courtesy to Sir Peter Courtenay, I. 154-157.

_Clergy_, the weapons they used in battle, I. 68.
A gallant fighting priest promoted to an archdeaconry, II. 80.
Often turned knights, I. 350.

_Clermont_, council of, sanctions chivalry, I. 12.

_Clifford_, Nicholas, his joust with John Boucmell, I. 294, &c.

_Cloth of gold_, chivalric circumstances at the field of, II. 111.

_Cochetel_, battle of, II. 178.

_Cognisances_, I. 87.

_Coliseum_, Moorish and chivalric sports in, II. 329.
Inferiority of the old Roman games in, to those of chivalry, I. 260.

_Colombe_, Ernalton of Sainte, bravery of him and his esquire, I. 46.

_Companions_ in arms, nature of such an union, I. 118-123.

_Conde_, D. José Antonio, value of his searches into Arabic Spanish
historians, II. 242. note.

_Constancy_, a greater virtue in chivalric times than in the present
day, I. 206.
Spenser's exhortation to, 207.

_Constantine_, fabulous order of, I. 374.

_Conversation_ of knights, its subjects, I. 175.

_Courage_ of the knight, I. 124-130.

_Courtenay_, Sir Peter, his adventures in France, I. 154, &c.

_Courtesy_, a knightly virtue, I. 160.
Courtesy of a dragon, 161. note.
At tournaments, 268.

_Cousines_, dame des belle, her reproof of a young page for his not
being in love, I. 32.

_Crawford_, Sir David de Lindsay, Earl of, his joust with Lord Wells,
I. 290.

_Cross_, every military order had its, I. 362.
Wretched taste in concealing the cross of the order of the Bath by a
star, ib.

_Cyclas_, I. 85.

_Cyneheard_, his story, I. 5.