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