JAMES V HAS DIED "LONG LIVE THE QUEEN"
Queen Mary Stuart
Queen Regent of Scotland Mary of Guise
&
The Little Majesty Mary Queen of Scots
"Shhh"
Queen Mary says,
"Can you keep a secret?"
You have to come to
The Celtic Celebration
October 6 & 7 2012
this year to know what it is.
'ITS A TUFF JOB DOING THIS WEB SITE AND GETTING IT RIGHT, I'M ONLY ONE ELF, PLEASE BE PATIENT'
SAYS GELF.
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Its Good to Be Queen Mary
also Lady Esibeth
Queen Mary
Lady in Waiting
Queen Regent
Royal court of France and Scotland
The Court
& Lady Fleming and her birds of prey
Sir Tip
Good Morning Your Tiny Majesty
Morning Notes
Heritage Guilds
Birds of Prey Demo
Lady Chloe
Pirates of Reno
Chilvary & Steel
Yes your Majesty at once
to retreive Prince Edward to the Stocks
Prince Edward said what about Scotland
He will get wet
Do you repent of your sin against
Queen Mary and Scotland
Queen Mary
Can you Keep a Secret?
Future King of France and his Cousin
The Delphane
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Great Job Charlie
So when is the next Series?
{Please put it back on}
SOON!!
Extreme Jousting Series'Knights of Mayhem' National Geographic
...a knight was expected to be gentle and faithful to his lady, fearless in battle and tournament, courteous and merciful to a defeated enemy and honorable in everything
Thanks to the National Geographic Channel's & the reality TV version Of medieval jousting which was a far cry from Medieval Times.
We want to see more of this series.
We miss -- the new series "Knights of Mayhem" -- the competitions of the Ultimate Jousting Championship will be on TV each week.
The series, which premiered on Nov. 15 on NGC, that followed Ultimate Jousting Championship founder Charlie Andrews as he and his fellow jousters succeeded in launching the competition as a professional sport.
Sir Shinney Guy "Charlie" is definitely a modern-day Lancelot is no joke, he can carry 130 pounds worth of armor, carry 11-foot-long wooden lances and ride around on 2,000-pound horse named
"Jagermister", sent several Knights to the ground. Even Patrick,, Hazza!!
"When you hit each other with 11-foot solid lances, one of you could get killed, and that is a reality,” says Andrews, who, in addition to competing, also devotes his non-training time and finances to promoting the sport.
"This is my time to take professional jousting to the masses," he says.
"This is all or nothing. We will sell out arenas across the United States."
We want More!!
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GO CHARLIE!!!!
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EVEN THE LITTLE GUY GOT INVOLVED
The knights' enthusiasm was already too great and the powers-to-be were forced to extend a grudging tolerance to the new sport.
There were three kinds of tournaments prior to the 17th Century:
MELEE' or TOURNEY PROPER - popular in the twelfth and thirteenth century. This form was the most brutal and costly in lives. All participants, upon hearing the charge, promptly crashed onto the tournament field and proceeded to unhorse all others by any method at hand until a winner was determined.
INDIVIDUAL JOUST - an encounter with lances between two knights. The rules were simple. If a combatant struck either rider or horse he was disqualified. A clean hit to the center or "boss" of the shield shattering the lance, or unseating the opponent scored points. A low partition wall separating contestants was introduced in about 1420 strictly as a measure to reduce injury to horses.
PRACTICE TOURNAMENT - Involved very little ceremony and few rules. Practice targets were provided by either a quintain or rings. The quintain was a wooden target mounted on a horizontal pole at which the knight aimed his lance. If the target was struck accurately, it would swing harmlessly aside; if struck off center, the weighted arm swung around with enough velocity to unseat the knight. The other form of jousting in the practice tournament was "riding at the rings", the surviving form of jousting with which we are most concerned. A ring was suspended on a cord, which was to be carried off on the tip of the knight's lance. Both the quintain and the ring joust were exercises that developed accuracy skills. These skills became increasingly important as individual jousts gained popularity.
The huge melee' tournament which had dominated the twelfth and most of the thirteenth centuries began to lose popularity as the small-scale joust emerged towards the end of the thirteenth century. Jousting came to be a sport where the correct physical co-ordination of horse and rider resulted in a safe but spectacular splintering of lances. The manipulation of a powerful horse and a heavy lance, complicated by the restricted movement and vision imposed by armor, was a skill acquired only with patient practice at such devices as the quintain and the ring.
Furthermore, it is probable that riding at the rings was perceived also as a display of chivalric romance. Winning knights were awarded customary "golden rings" along with kisses, in a formal and elaborate prize-giving ceremony by the ladies of the court, who had rapidly became central to the whole ideal of knighthood during the fourteenth century.
The ring tournament has survived the longest. Accounts of famous festivals during the sixteenth and seventeenth century, including King's Day in honor of James I during the 1600s in England, list at least nine festival occasions where "running at the rings" was featured. Knowledge of these affairs was carried to the colonies by English cavaliers and officers in the mid-seventeenth century.
Charlie you get the
Gold Ring!!
Words o' the month
A two-for-one special this month!
Bóithrín
:
"boreen"
Irish for "small road." These narrow lanes between fields are instantly familiar to anyone who's gone for strolls in the Irish countryside.
Cailín:
"colleen"
Irish for a young girl.
From
The Star of the County Down
:
"Down a boreen green came a sweet colleen/And she smiled as she passed me by."
