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A scene from late XVth century Burgundy. Medieval tournaments were important cultural and sport events, and especially in Burgundy of chivalrious duke Charles the Bold. Tournaments often took form of not only competition, but also staged spectacles and celebrations overfilled with pathos. It was an occasion to present one's wealth and might, with ostentatiously presented coats of arms and ceremonial or tournamental clothing, state-of-the-art armor and weaponry. One such example is the tournament shield in the knight's hand, based on "The Shield of Parade" from British Museum, dating around 1470 and made probably in Flanders.

Various duchies and counties under Bugundian-Valois dukes, though bound to them by personal union, considered themselves separate states and emphasized that in various ways, one being through their own heralds and coats of arms. Because of that despite the coat of arms of Burgundian Valois dynasty already present, I placed other heralds and coats of arms in the scene, with herald of County of Artois in the foreground. Under the stands from the left there are the heralds of Duchy of Burgundy, Duchy of Luxemburg, Duchy of Brabant, Duchy of Bar, Duchy of Limburg and County of Flanders.

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A scene from late XVth century Burgundy. Medieval tournaments were important cultural and sport events, and especially in Burgundy of chivalrious duke Charles the Bold. Tournaments often took form of not only competition, but also staged spectacles and celebrations overfilled with pathos. It was an occasion to present one's wealth and might, with ostentatiously presented coats of arms and ceremonial or tournamental clothing, state-of-the-art armor and weaponry. One such example is the tournament shield in the knight's hand, based on "The Shield of Parade" from British Museum, dating around 1470 and made probably in Flanders.

Various duchies and counties under Bugundian-Valois dukes, though bound to them by personal union, considered themselves separate states and emphasized that in various ways, one being through their own heralds and coats of arms. Because of that despite the coat of arms of Burgundian Valois dynasty already present, I placed other heralds and coats of arms in the scene, with herald of County of Artois in the foreground. Under the stands from the left there are the heralds of Duchy of Burgundy, Duchy of Luxemburg, Duchy of Brabant, Duchy of Bar, Duchy of Limburg and County of Flanders.