Tournaments

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TOURNAMENTSTounaments
  • Tournaments envolved over the eleventh centery
  • tournaments were the most violent games of the middle ages

WHO AND WHY



  • knights played in these tournaments
  • this let knights show off the skills
  • tournaments gave the knights the oppertunity to earn money and employment from the lords
  • the winners takes all of the losers possetions
MELEES
  • melees were the most popular tournaments
  • this "game" had little rules
  • there was only one safe zone called a recess were the knights could repair their armor and tend to wounds
  • melees were fought between 2 groups, each grou