ELITE SERIES EDITOR: MARTIN WINDROW Knights at ‘Tournament Text by CHRISTOPHER GRAVETT Colour plates by ANGUS McBRIDE OSPREY PUBLISHING LONDONPublished in 1988 by Osprey Publishing Lid Member company of the George Philip Group 12-14 Long Acre, London WC2E gLP © Copyright 1988 Osprey Publishing Ltd This book is copyrighted under the Berne Convention, All rights reserved. Apart from any fair dealing for the purpose of private study, research, criticism or review, as permitted under the Copyright Act,.1956, no part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, electrical, chemical, mechanical, optical, photocopying, recording or otherwise, without the prior permission of the copyright owner. should be addressed to the Publishers, British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data Gravett, Christopher Knights at tournament.— (Elite series; 17) 1, Tournament—Europe—History I, Title II. Series 304.7 Diog ISBN 085045 836 6 Filmset in Great Britain Printed through Bookbuilders Ltd, Hong Kong For my mother and father Acknowledgements: ‘The author would like (o thank the following for their help in the preparation of this book: Dominique Colon, Renate Gut, Ulrike Mundorff, Ann Payne, ‘Thom Richardson and Graeme Rimer. Artist’s Note Readers may care to note that the original paintings from which the colour plates in this book were prepared are available for private sale. All reproduction copyright whatsoever is retained by the publisher. All enquiries should be addressed to: Scorpio Gallery 50 High Street, Battle, Sussex TN33 oEN ‘The publishers regret that they can enter into no correspondence upon this matter