While idly trawling FlipBoard, the news aggregator site I use, I came across an item about great medieval knights and spotted this image of a knightly tournament in France.
It shows Jacques de Lalaing fighting the Lord of Espiry at the Passage of Arms of the Fountain of Tears. Now these knights were meant to be tough old buggers, but I never realised they fought while wearing pink tutus. Mind you, he was French.
Now, Jacques de Lalaing was either putting two fingers up at his opponent, or he's the reason the English won at Agincourt, Crecy and Poitiers against the effete French.
He went down in history as being one of the first knights to be killed by gunfire.
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