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A cornpetitor was disqualified for querer both to protect and intirni-
various reasons, for example, for date the occupants of the city. Only
breaking the rules, or wounding his part of the buildings are of Norman
adversary's horse, or if he lost his construction and maoy later styles
helmet and so on.
are also represented. The original
Occasionally, where a severe keep is what it now known as the
quarrel had arisen behveen two White Tower.
knights and a challenge had been
The Tower of London has been
issued. by permission of the King occupied as a Royal Palace by al1
the contest could be held ' to the the English Kings and Queens up to
death '. In diese contests rules were the time of James 1 and it has been
even more strictly enforced and it garrisoned continuously since i t was
hrst constmcted.
was not uncornmon, wlien one of
the two contestants had been un-
horsed, the King would cal1 a halt
and summon the rwo contestants to
him. He would then issue summary
punishment to the loser, such as
banishment from the Kingdom, or
he might order the two Knights to
make up their quarreI declaring that
honour was satisfied.
There were many particularIy War Cries - These were always used
farnous tournaments such as the by the armies of the Middle Ages.
two at Dunstable, tlie first in 1308 Sometimes they were of national
and the second in 1334 and that origin and on occasions have been
held in Srnithfield in 1467 and at the a family battIe cry. Many of them
Field of the Cloth of Gold. In addi- are recognisable today in the moeto
tion there was a tournament area at used in certain armorial bearings.
Westminster where quite a number
of tournaments were held at com- Westminster Tournament RoU - A
well known pictorial record which
paratively regular intervals.
Many attempts have been made is held by the College of Arms,
in various European countries to London of the tournament held by
renew the glamour of the tourna- Henry VI11 at Westminster in
ment, perhaps the most famous February 151 1. The tournament
being the abortive attempt by the was held in honour of Queen
Earl of Eglinton in 1839 which is so Catherine of Aragon and the birt1.i
ably described by Tan Anstruther in of their son Henry, Duke of Corn-
' The Knight and the Umbrella '. wall. The Roll is almost 60 feet long
and nearly 15 inches wide cornpris-
Tower of London - One of the early ing 35 sheets of vellum, illuminated
l castles built by William the Con- in gold, silver and various colours.