A champion of a tournament. Knight in armour on horseback with grand helm and jousting lance. Engraving by Burgmayer after a design by Albrecht Durer in Vita imperatoris Maximiliani, 15th century. Champion de tournoi. Woodcut 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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