Appendices B

Summary

1331 #”Feste of the thirty-one kings” at Tournai, at which a jousting fraternity of bourgeois honored Galehaut and the thirty kings he conquered:

Records reveal expenses for civic decoration and the enclosure of the market place.

1339 #Feste de l'espinette at Lille:

One contestant, Jehan Bernier, “was led into the lists by two … damsels by two golden cords, … [with another]two carrying each a lance.”

The front of the loges for the échevins, consuls, governor and bailiff of Lille, etc. was covered in cloth; the loges were rented to these notables.

1331 London tournament, held by Edward III:

William Montague and 16 mounted knights, “masked and dressed as Tartars, paraded through London to Cheapside, each knight leading a lady [each wearing a tunic of red velvet and a white hood] by a silver chain.”

1357 and 1362 London, jousts at Smithfield, held by Edward III.

1375 [1374?] Final tournament held under Edward III's auspices:

Alice Perrers was cast as “lady of the Sunne” to ride in the procession via Cheapside to Smithfield, in the company of ladies who led their lords by their horses' bridles.

1388 London processions to jousts held by Richard II at Smithfield.

1389 Smithfield tournament held by Richard II:

[A]ll such persones as came in vpon the kynges party, theyr armour & apparayle was garnysshyd with whyte hertys & crownys of golde about theyr neckys; and of this sorte were. xxiiii., with xxiiii, ladyes also apparaylyd as aboue is sayd, lad with. xxiiii.