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Peter Lyon
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posted 03-31-2007 02:27 PM     Profile for Peter Lyon   Author's Homepage     Send New Private Message   Edit/Delete Post   Reply With Quote
I have run across several references to a Frenchman named Geoffroi de purelli as being the first to write rules for a medieval tournament, in 1066. All I have found on a web search is that he is creditted with writing the rules for a tournament in 1066, at which he was killed. I don't recall seeing this before in any of my books, and I'm wondering if anyone can illuminate me on the truth of this, and whether his rules survived in some form?
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Rod Walker
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posted 03-31-2007 05:19 PM     Profile for Rod Walker   Author's Homepage     Send New Private Message   Edit/Delete Post   Reply With Quote
Hi Peter, do I have a book for you.Tournament by David Crouch, a most excellent book that deals with the early tournament period.

I'll lend it to you when you are over next month.

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Cheers

Rod
www.jousting.com.au


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Peter Lyon
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posted 03-31-2007 10:15 PM     Profile for Peter Lyon   Author's Homepage     Send New Private Message   Edit/Delete Post   Reply With Quote
Thanks Rod, that will fill in some of the quiet times (if there are any).
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damien
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From what I have read It is a journal entry from Tours written during the early c13th stating thet he was killed in 1062 and that he was the inventor of tournaments. There are no other details given in the text.
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