Chapter V

_Pas d’armes_ at _L’Arbre de Charlemagne_, Dijon, in 1443,
at which there was jousting at the tilt, and reinforcing
pieces were employed—The lists—The challenges—A few
of the encounters—The _chapitres d’armes_—Various
Harleian MSS.—Picture of a King of Arms proclaiming
a tournament—Combat, at Ghent, between Jehan de
Boniface and Jacques de Lalain in 1445—Definitions of
an esquire—The duties of a King of Arms—Additional
or reinforcing pieces—Small set of reinforcing pieces
in the Wallace Collection—Feat of arms at Edinburgh
in 1448—Distinction made in the dress of a knight
and that of an esquire—Armour of the fifteenth
century—Brass of Sir John Wylcotes and that in South
Kelsey Church—Hoveringham effigy—Collar of SS.—Gothic
armour—The Beauchamp effigy its finest type—Great
armour-smiths of the fifteenth century—Enrichment
of armour—Paper by Viscount Dillon, printed in
_Archæologia_, on a MS. collection of ordinances of
chivalry of the fifteenth century—“Abilment for Justes of
the Pees”—“To Crie a Justus of Pees”—“The comyng into
the felde”—“To arme a man”—Combats on foot—Jousting at
the tilt—Definition of terms—The _Pas de la Pélerine_ in
1446—Feat of arms at Arras between Philippe de Ternant
and Galiot de Baltasin in the same year—The lists—The
first joust of the Comte de Charolais at Brussels in
1452—Tournament at Brussels in the same year—Jousting
now frequently combined with masques, mummeries and
pageants—Example of this in 1453—Tournament in
celebration of the coronation of Edward IV—_Pas d’armes_
held by Edward IV in 1467, at which the Bastard of
Burgundy took part—The lists—Ashmolean MS.—Costly
pageant, combined with jousting and the tourney, in
celebration of the marriage of Charles the Bold with
Margaret of York (L’Arbre d’Or)—Jousts held at Paris in
1468—Royal jousts in honour of the marriage of Richard
Duke of York in 1477—Royal jousts and fêtes at Greenwich
in the reign of Henry VII—Caxton’s epilogue—Tapestry at
Valenciennes—Joust at Jena in 1487 between Johannes Duke
of Saxony and Cuntz Metzschen—A “Solemne Triumphe” at
Richmond—Collections of armour at Vienna and Dresden 57