A knight in training, playing a ‘game’ called quintain
Date Description Source Reference
15th century ?
 Four bell tents and two triangular pavilions. The front two pavilions and bell tent all show the three point guy rope attachment. Only the roofs of the three bell tents in the rear can be seen. The front pavilion has no apex decoration but on the left half of the roof is the Austrian two headed eagle and on the other half are three ‘fluer de lis’. On the other pavilions roofs are drawings of stylized plants.  “A knight in training, playing a ‘game’ called quintain...” Provenance unknown. Ward, J.O., The Middle Ages, Australia, 1977, p. 102. 

Delort, R., Life in the Middle Ages, London, 1973, p. 222.

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