A Goodreads user asked Kathryn Warner:

Hi Kathryn, I saw you read Barber's "Tournaments: Jousts, Chivalry, and Pageants in the Middle Ages". I searching sources for identifying actual people who were famous jousters in the early to middle 14th C. Would this be a good reference? I have Juliet Barker's other book on Tournaments in England, but I'm looking now for men outside England - particularly from countries other than France. Do you know of any?

Kathryn Warner Hi RJay! One tournament I've been researching recently was held at Mons by the count of Hainault in 1310, though only two English knights took part: Hugh Despenser the Younger and Robert d'Enghien. If you can read French, there's a really good website about that tournament and the men who fought in it. http://home.scarlet.be/heraldus/Tourn... (And that site probably has details of other jousts and jousters too). It was the Barker book that led me to discover this tournament. There's also a book by Peter Coss but it's mostly about English knights, IIRC. It's ages since I read the Barber book and cannot remember at all what was in it, but he's an excellent historian.

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