Tournament

A tournament, or tourney, was a chivalrous competition or mock fight. It is one type of hastilude. The shows were held often for coronations, the marriage of kings, births, baptisms, weddings of princesses, conquests, peace, alliances, or to welcome ambassadors and people of great worth, or for pure entertainment. The heralds and kings of arms were in charge of publicizing the tournament, and the herald passed from castle to castle, taking letters and posters to the most renowned champions and invited all the brave who were on the way.