King Henry II of France mortally wounded in the face by the lance of Gabriel de Montgomery in a tournament, 1559. From a 16th century print. Le roi Henri II blesse par Montgomery dans un tournoi. Woodcut by Jules Huyot from Paul Lacroix’s La Vie Militaire et Religieuse au Moyen Age et a l’Epoque de la Renaissance, Military and Religious Life in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance, Paris, 1873.

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