WR - Tourney Vote!!!

[Brent Hanner]

KEVIN JOHNSON wrote:
> 
> chess was invented before the Vikings, I think I remember seeing an 
> old chess board that was supposed to have been found in a wreck of a 
> Vikings ship alot of different games have been around for centuries. 

Yea chess has been around since the begining of the middle ages
sometime.

> I sometimes wonder if our ancestors had the courage and willpower to 
> use the games to settle their differences. 

I doubt it although I supose it is posible.   I do no of 2 instances
where
it was definitely caused violence.  

>From "Sports, Crime and Peasants in Thirteenth Century England" by J.
Carter.

    London Eyre of 1276
     	
	David de Bristol and Juliana wife of Richard le Cordwaner were
	playing chess together in Richard's house, with several others 	
present; a quarrel arising between them, David struck Juliana in 	the
thigh with a sword, so that she died forth with.  He at once 	fled and
is suspected, so let him be exacted and outlawed.  No 	chattels nor
frankpledge because he was a stranger.  All the 	neighbors have died. 
Because the chamberlain held no enquiry 	concering the men who were in
the house with David and Juliana 	when the incident occurred, to
judgment on him.



	On the morrow of the Assumprion (16 Augm 1254)  William De 	Wendene of
Essex was playing chess with Robert Son of Bernard, a 	knight of Essex,
in Robert's house in the Ward of Ralph 	Sperling(Billingsgate).

The chess match resulted in an argument and the two began fighting. 
William of Wendere, the non-noble, wounded the knight.


> Course lets not forget the 
> gladiator tourneys.

Once again yes those are usually fights to the death but don't 
fit into the medieval concept of a tournament and I don't know
enough about the format used in Roman gladiatoral combat to 
know if it would constitute as something similar to an modern
elimination tourney.  My guess is that if there was an overall
champion then it would probobly be similar to modern boxing
or similar to a early medieval passa.  I will have to look into
that sometime when I get a chance.

Peder
-- 
"While helmets onto heads were tied we formed the groups with which we
ride.
 I took a sturdy spear in hand and rode away then from our band.
 I came forth all alone indeed and then began to spur my steed
 to race as fast as he could go. I charged Sir Hadmar's forces so."

Service of Ladies by Ulrich von Lichtenstien
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