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Richard Beauchamp fighting Pandolph Malatête en champ clos, armed with war-hammer, showing the protective rondels on the hafts

(fol. 35b), Lirer Swabian Chronicle, Ulm, edit. 1484 (Fig. 896), Graf von dem Rotenfan is shown en champ clos fighting an adversary for the honour of Queen Kathay. Both combatants are fully armed, their head-*pieces being small salades, and both are using the pole-axe; but neither of the pole-axes is fitted with a rondel guard. Olivier de la Marche and George Chastelain, King of Arms of the Golden Fleece at the Court of Duke Philip of Burgundy, constantly refer to that redoubtable champion of his day, Jacques de Lalain, as fighting on foot, completely armed but generally visorless, and as using the battle-hammer and the hâche d'armes. So armed he fought the Scottish knight, James Douglas, brother of