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 Pleas 44