[2] Fabliau de l'ordene de Chevalerie dans les fabliaux de Le Grand d'Aussi. [3] Tacit. de Mor. Germ. [4] Marculfus. [5] Menestrier de la Chevalerie et ses preuves, page 230. [6] Tacitus de Morib. German. [7] Eginhard Ann. [8] See note I. [9] Charles Nodier on St. Palaye. [10] Ordene de Chevalerie Fabliaux. [11] Charles Nodier. [12] Felibien, Hist. St. Denis. [13] Coutumes de Beauvoisis. [14] St. Palaye. [15] Vie de Bayard. [16] Favin Théâtre. [17] Vie de Boucicaut, Coll. Pelitot et Momerque. [18] Vie de Bayard. [19] Froissart. [20] St. Palaye, liv. i. [21] Guillaume Guiart.; Guill, Amoric.; Rigord; Philipeid. [22] Brantome. [23] See note II. [24] Charles Nodier's Annotations on St. Palaye. [25] Ducange, Dissert. xxii. Menestrier, chap. 2; St. Palaye. [26] Roman de Garin, Fabliaux, vol. ii. [27] Menestrier, chap. 2. and 9. [28] Menestrier, chap. 9. [29] St. Palaye. [30] Hartknoch, lib. ii. c. 1. [31] Existing Orders of Knighthood. [32] Cappefigue. [33] Menestrier, ix.; St. Palaye. [34] Adré Favin Théât. [35] Nithard, lib. iii. [36] _Britannarum_ is the word. [37] Ducange apud Chron. Tur. an. 1066. [38] Munster. Geogr. lib. iii. [39] Ducange, in his sixth dissertation, has satisfactorily overturned the assertion made by Modius, that tournaments were known in Germany at a much earlier period than here stated. [40] Ducange, Dissert. vii. [41] Menestrier Origine. [42] Favin Théâtre. [43] St. Palaye. [44] St. Palaye. [45] Vie de Bayard. [46] Vie de Bayard. [47] Olivier de la Marche. [48] Ducange, Dissert. vi. [49] St. Palaye. [50] Ducange, Dissert. vii. [51] Mat. Paris, Ann. 1241. [52] Colombiere. [53] Menestrier, vi. [54] Mat. Westmonas., page 409. [55] Should any one be tempted to investigate further, he will find the subject discussed at length in the seventh dissertation of Ducange. See also the _Chronique de Molinet_. [56] St. Palaye; Ribeiro, lib. x. [57] Menestrier. [58] Ordonances des Rois de France, ann. 1294. [59] Pasquier Recherches. [60] Vie de Bayard sur Jean d'Arces. [61] See note III. [62] Colombiere. [63] La Colombiere. [64] Froissart Olivier de la Marche. [65] See the "Voeu du Heron and the Voeu du Paon." cited in St. Palaye. [66] See note IV. [67] Ducange, Dissert, xxi. [68] Monstrelet. [69] Juvenal des Ursius. [70] Hardouin de la Jaille. [71] See deed between Du Guesclin and Clisson. Ducange, Dissert, xxi. [72] Ducange, Gloss. Lat. Mutare Armas. [73] See the Chevalier de la Tour, as cited by St. Palaye. [74] Vertot. [75] Sharon Turner. [76] William of Jumieges, lib. iv. [77] Eginhard. Annal. [78] Mabillon. [79] William of Tyre, lib. i. [80] Voltaire, Essai sur les Moeurs. [81] Guibert de Nogent. [82] Will. Tyr. lib. i.