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