Knighthood, Chivalry & Tournament
Glossary of Terms


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The glossary is meant as a growing resource for students, re-enactors, and anyone interested in knighthood, chivalry, or the medieval tournament. The current page is but a brief listing of what we would like to have on the page; if you would be interested in helping with a given area, such as in heraldry, transcribing tournament accounts, translations, or research, drop the author an email at brion@chronique.com. Additionally, we would like to expand many of the definitions here; if you want to try one or more of them send your submissions to the email address above--we can use the help!

Wace: An poet in the early Arthurian tradition credited with first introducing the concept of the Round Table into the Arthurian mythos, his version of Geoffrey of Monmouth’s History of the Kings of Britain was completed in 1155.

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Warlord tournament style: An SCA style of tournament where in the first round there are single combats, the loser of the bout joining the team of the victor for the second and successive rounds. In the second round, these two join forces to defeat their two challengers, the losers once again joining the victor’s side until at the end of the tournament there are two large teams that fight in a mêlée to determine which man is the victor.

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Wisby, Battle of: 1361. An engagement where many old men and boys were slaughtered wearing cotes of plates. After the battle it was so hot that the bodies were buried in a mass grave, what turned out to be peat bog that has since preserved them in remarkable condition, yielding many insights into battlefield wound pathology and providing the only examples of brigandine gauntlets and intact cotes of plates.

Wurtzburg Tournaments of 1479: A series of twenty articles that detail a late 15th century tournament series, interesting for the details concerning tournament forms of the period.

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