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.)

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.

A FRAGMENTARY PROLOGUEPAGE [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.