Chapter VII

The Chevalier Bayard—His career in the tourney—_Pas
d’armes_ at Westminster in 1501—Dates of chroniclers
unreliable—The term “tourney”—“Solemne Triumph” in
1502—Joust at Naumburg in 1505—An _Auzogenrennen_ in
1512—The kind of shield employed—Tilting at Paris and
Lille in 1513 and 1515—Letters of Safeguard—Curious
rule in foot contests—Charles V engaged in tournaments
in 1518—Tournaments of the reign of Henry VIII—Hall and
Holinshed’s narrations—Jousts at the coronation—The
King jousts incognito—Other combats—Jousts in honour of
Queen Katharine—The tenans and articles of combat—Hall’s
florid account of the meeting—Ashmole MS. No.
1116—Proportion of attaints—Other _pas d’armes_—Jousts
in honour of the Queen of Scotland—Articles of
combat—Field of the Cloth of Gold—Jousting in
England—King Henry ran great risk of losing his life
when jousting in 1524—Henry a successful jouster—Jousts
in 1536 and 1540—The ceremony of the degradation of a
knight—Fights at barriers in 1554—jousting fell into
disuse in England during the reign of Edward VI and that
of Philip and Mary—Efforts made in Elizabeth’s reign
to revive the tournament—Sir Henry Lee the Queen’s
champion—Succeeded by the Earl of Cumberland—Jousts
and barriers in 1558—The _pas d’armes_ in 1559 at
which Henry II of France was fatally injured—Viscount
Dillon’s _Barriers and Foot Combats_—Tournaments at
London in 1570—“Checques” or score-tablets and their
illustration—Articles of combat and prizes—Proportion
of attaints made by the Earl of Oxford—Jousting
in the night in 1572—The duties at a tournament
of a King of Arms and of a Pursuivant—Scoring
“Checques”—Their definition—Rules and regulations
for conducting tournaments in Tudor times—_Romance
of three kings’ sons_—“Ordinaunce of keeping of the
Feelde”—Tournaments and jousts at Westminster in
1581—King Henry IV challenges the Duc de Mayenne to
single combat—A _Scharmützel_—A water quintain in
1585—Fights at barriers in 1606 and 1610—Tournament in
1612—First coming into the tiltyard of Prince Charles
of Wales in 1619—Tournament of the knight of the royal
Amaranthus in 1620—The tournament lingered long in
Germany—The decline of armour—Causes of the gradual
disuse of armour—Armour of the seventeenth century—A
harness belonging to Louis XIV—Plate-armour gradually
disappears—Conclusion—Revivals of the nineteenth and
twentieth centuries—The Eglington tournament in 1839—The
tournament at Brussels in 1905—“Triumph” at Earl’s Court
in 1912—The Judicial Duel 111