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Letters and Papers, Foreign and Domestic, Henry VIII
… of those who were appointed to take an active part in the tournament be considered as an evidence of the Cardinal's … and Saturday were occupied in preparing the field for the tournament. The lists, 900 feet in length and 320 feet broad, … in spite of appearances, there was no real cordiality. A tournament, in fact, was the least eligible method of …
Letters and Papers, Foreign and Domestic, Henry VIII
… immersed in the games of war and ambition, absorbed by the tournament, or the chase, impatient of contradiction, deaf to … No games except chess were allowed, or an allegorical tournament between vices and virtues. All, whatever their …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… in this and the following reign. Edward III. held a grand tournament at Reading in 1346; and in 1359, his son, John of …
Calendar of Papal Registers Relating to Great Britain and Ireland
… warn him, under pain of excommunication, not to hold the tournament (in itself reprobated by the sacred canons) which …
The Grey Friars of London
… of Margaret de Redvers. Third earl, killed in a tournament when only seventeen years of age. Decembris blank …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… splendour by Henry V. In 1492 it was the scene of a grand tournament held by Henry VII.; and having been destroyed by … Henry VII. expired in the palace. Henry VIII. also held a tournament at Richmond, where his first wife, Catherine of …
The Environs of London
… palace. Henry V. restores it. Sir James Parker slain in a tournament. The palace burnt. Second fire. Fall of the … to its former magnificence 22. Henry VII. held a grand tournament at his manor at Richmond in 1492, when Sir James … at Richmond the year after he came to the throne 27. A tournament was held there on the 12th of January, when the …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… from the dilapidation it had suffered. Henry held a grand tournament here in 1251, in which the English knights entered …