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Author Topic: geoffroi de purelli Peter Lyon Member Member # 232 posted 03-31-2007 02:27 PM                   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? Registered: Oct 2001  |  IP: Logged Rod Walker Member Member # 776 posted 03-31-2007 05:19 PM                   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. -------------------- Cheers Rod www.jousting.com.au Registered: Mar 2005  |  IP: Logged Peter Lyon Member Member # 232 posted 03-31-2007 10:15 PM                   Thanks Rod, that will fill in some of the quiet times (if there are any). Registered: Oct 2001  |  IP: Logged damien Member Member # 742 posted 04-02-2007 06:17 PM                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. damien Registered: Feb 2005  |  IP: Logged

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