XVe century in sport

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Calcio Florentin

January 1491. First trace of part of Calcio Florentin, but this Italian version of drunk has been practiced for at least several decades. Poems indeed evoke the play as of the middle of the 15th century.

1478 . First mention of the “locust” (cricket) in France (Saint-Omer). It was the name given to the stick ( wicket ) which was used as goal. This sport is very practiced in France until the 18th century.

1414 . One year before famous the Battle of Azincourt which marks the final triumph of the archers (English) on the heavy cavalry formed in the tournaments (French), the king of England points out the prohibition of the practice of football (drunk) and orders on his subjects to practice the shooting with the arc.
1422 . Prohibition by the municipal authorities of Arras, then under English occupation, of the practice of the drunk one.
1440 . Raoul, bishop of the Trégor, prohibited practice of drunk in its diocese… The text of Raoul specifies that this play was practiced for a long time in Brittany.

1457 . First mention of the golf in Scotland. It is a royal decree by prohibiting the practice… The king of England renews his prohibition of football (drunk) but also quotes the golf like “prohibited play”.

1415 . Consequence of the battle of Azincourt, the duke of Orleans is imprisoned during two decades in England. At the time of this captivity with Winfield in the Norfolk, the duke introduces the play of Palm in England which it practices quasi daily. Four centuries later, the descendant of the lord of the manor of Winfield, Walter Clopton Winfield, invent tennis…
1427. Feeling with Paris then under English occupation: a named woman Margot Hennuyère is distinguished by beating the best Parisian specialists in the Jeu of palm! She inclines herself however vis-a-vis the most physical players.
1459 . First mention of a gaming room of palm in London.
1485 . Council of Direction which points out the prohibition of the practice of the play of palm for the monks. It is far from being the first text of the kind because the ecclesiastics practice the play of palm assiduement, sometimes even in churches which are not equipped yet with chairs and offers a superb surface of play in the event of bad weather! The religious hierarchy sees obviously very evil eye these practices but appears unable to put an end to it.

1477 . The king of England Edouard IV points out that the English law proscribed the practice of the “plays prohibited” like football (drunk) or the dice, adding that the practice of the shooting to the arc was for any robust person a national duty.

1440 - 1468. Old of gold of the step of weapons, purified tournament forms. This martial play consists for a knight or a group of knights to hold a position vis-a-vis attackers in excess. One could thus attend confrontation with 1 against 10, to see much more. Certain parts would have even put at the catches a knight vis-a-vis a hundred attackers!

1425 . In an article entitled " Treaty of pêche" , Lady Julyana Berner, prioress of the convent of Bénédictines of Sopwell (England) write the bases of a sporting fishing reserved for noble and the gentilhommes.
1496 . Printed (and not recopied with the hand) for the first time, the " Book off St Alban " draft of the " large arts" time reserved for the dominant class (Heraldic Hunting and ), and integrates the treaty of Berner Lady on the sporting Pêche.

1468 . Charles Bold the is constrained to threaten of dead the participants of a tournament so that they cease the part given in the honor of his marriage… The amateurs of tournaments, ultra-violent activity which tallies badly with the air of time, will have from now on to be satisfied with the tournaments.

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