Knights and Their Days

Knights and Their Days.

KNIGHTS

AND THEIR DAYS

BY DR. DORAN

AUTHOR OF “LIVES OF THE QUEENS OF ENGLAND OF THE HOUSE OF HANOVER,”
“TABLE TRAITS,” “HABITS AND MEN,” ETC.

“Oh, ’tis a brave profession, and rewards

All loss we meet, with double weight of glory.”

Shirley (The Gentleman of Venice.)

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REDFIELD

34 BEEKMAN STREET, NEW YORK

1856

TO

PHILIPPE WATIER, ESQ.

IN MEMORY OF MERRY NIGHTS AND DAYS NEAR METZ AND THE
MOSELLE,

THIS LITTLE VOLUME

Is inscribed

BY HIS VERY SINCERE FRIEND,

THE AUTHOR.

CONTENTS.

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A FRAGMENTARY PROLOGUE	PAGE 9
THE TRAINING OF PAGES	30
KNIGHTS AT HOME	36
LOVE IN CHEVALIERS, AND CHEVALIERS IN LOVE	51
DUELLING, DEATH, AND BURIAL	65
THE KNIGHTS WHO “GREW TIRED OF IT”	78
FEMALE KNIGHTS AND JEANNE DARC	104
THE CHAMPIONS OF CHRISTENDOM	113
SIR GUY OF WARWICK, AND WHAT BEFELL HIM	133
GARTERIANA	148
FOREIGN KNIGHTS OF THE GARTER	170
THE POOR KNIGHTS OF WINDSOR, AND THEIR DOINGS	184
THE KNIGHTS OF THE SAINTE AMPOULE	194
THE ORDER OF THE HOLY GHOST	200
JACQUES DE LELAING	208
THE FORTUNES OF A KNIGHTLY FAMILY	228
THE RECORD OF RAMBOUILLET	263
SIR JOHN FALSTAFF	276
STAGE KNIGHTS	295
STAGE LADIES, AND THE ROMANCE OF HISTORY	312
THE KINGS OF ENGLAND AS KNIGHTS; FROM THE NORMANS TO THE STUARTS	329
“THE INSTITUTION OF A GENTLEMAN”	351
THE KINGS OF ENGLAND AS KNIGHTS; THE STUARTS	358
THE SPANISH MATCH	364
THE KINGS OF ENGLAND AS KNIGHTS; FROM STUART TO BRUNSWICK	375
RECIPIENTS OF KNIGHTHOOD	388
RICHARD CARR, PAGE, AND GUY FAUX, ESQUIRE	410
ULRICH VON HUTTEN	420
SHAM KNIGHTS	439
PIECES OF ARMOR	455

THE

KNIGHTS AND THEIR DAYS.