Les Derniers Valois The Last Valois
Kings of France
 
King Henri III

Feats of Arms in 16thCentury France

Horsemanship

  • Antoine de Pluvinel: the inventor of modern dressage and court horse master
  • Catherine de Medici supposedly brought the Sidesaddle to France

    • The Hunt

  • Books: La Vénerie by Jacques du Fouilleux ,   Thomas Cockaigne's Treatise
  • Chasse a courre
  • French hunting lexicon
  • Places to hunt: Foret de Lyons
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    Feats of Arms

  • Rene d’Anjou on Tournaments
  • Quintain

    • Fencing & swords

  • My Armoury
  • The Italian System
  • Links to fencing SCA links on fencing
  • Sword Types: Renaissance Sword types , Sword Types
  • Di Grasse on rapiers , Saint Didier on the Epee Lovino’s Traite d'esrime, dedicated to King Henri III 16th century swordsmanship sources
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