Chapter IV: Celebrated Judicial Duels

Combat between Macaire and the Dog of Montargis.--Between
the King of Burgundy’s Chamberlain and Gamekeeper.--Between
a Courtier of Rharvald King of Lombardy
and a Cousin of the Queen.--Between Gontran and Ingelgerius,
Count of Anjou.--Ecclesiastical trials by battle.--Singular
Trial by Battle at Toledo.--Judicial trials instituted by
French Parliaments.--Edicts prohibiting Duels.--The Saviour’s
truce.--Account of the celebrated Duel between Jarnac and
De la Chasteneraye.--Combat between Albert de Luignes
and Panier.--Maugerel the King’s Killer.--Abolition of the
Trial by Ordeal in England.--Ordeal of the heated Ploughshares.--Combat
between Edward Ironside and Canute.--Introduction
of Duelling into England.--Law of Alfred.--Laws
of Edmund.--Price of Wounds and Injuries regulated.--Decision
of the Cross.--Ordeal by the Consecrated Bread and Cheese,
or Corsned.--Settlement of Feuds by Pecuniary Compensation.--Combat
between William Count d’Eu and Godefroi
Baynard--Between Henry de Essex and Robert de Montfort.--Institution
of the Grand Assizes, or Trial by Jury, by
Henry the Second.--Trial of Battle before the Court of Common
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