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  THE

  HISTORY OF DUELLING:

  INCLUDING,

  NARRATIVES

  OF THE MOST

  REMARKABLE PERSONAL ENCOUNTERS

  THAT HAVE TAKEN PLACE FROM THE EARLIEST PERIOD
  TO THE PRESENT TIME.

  BY

  J. G. MILLINGEN, M.D. F.R.S.

  AUTHOR OF “CURIOSITIES OF MEDICAL EXPERIENCE,” ETC.

  IN TWO VOLUMES.
  VOL. I.

  LONDON:
  RICHARD BENTLEY, NEW BURLINGTON STREET,
  Publisher in Ordinary to Her Majesty.
  1841.




  LONDON:
  PRINTED BY SAMUEL BENTLEY,
  Bangor House, Shoe Lane.




CONTENTS

OF

THE FIRST VOLUME.


  CHAPTER I.

  INTRODUCTORY OBSERVATIONS.

  Object of the Work.--Ancient Duels and Single Combats
  characterized.--Origin of Duelling.--Trials by Ordeal.--Treachery
  and ferocity of the days of Chivalry.--Light thrown by
  the History of Duelling on the Manners and Constitutions
  of Society at different periods.--Introduction into the British
  Isles.--Advantages to be derived from chronicling the hideous
  details                                                         Page 1


  CHAPTER II.

  ON DUELLING AMONG THE ANCIENTS, AND IN OLDEN TIMES.

  The practice of Duelling unknown to the Ancients.--Personal
  conflicts of their Warriors.--Wrestlers in the Pancration.--Introduction
  of the Cæstus.--Female Pugilists.--Gladiators.--National
  conflicts.--Battle of the Thirty.--Onset between
  Bembrough and Beaumanoir.--Combat between Seven French
  and Seven English Knights.--Challenges between Sovereigns.--Francis
  the First and Charles the Fifth.--Edward the Third
  and Philip de Valois.--Christian the Fourth of Denmark and
  Charles the Ninth of Sweden.--Sully’s description of Duellists  Page 9


  Chapter III.

  THE ORIGIN OF DUELLING.

  Association of Brute Courage with Superstition.--Religion
  and Love.--Barbarous Courage of the Northern Nations.--Personal
  appeal to arms traced to their irruption in the Fifth
  Century.--Universal militarism.--Decision of Differences by
  brute force.--Establishment of Ordeals.--Judicial Combats.--Law
  of Gundebald, King of the Burgundians.--Mode of conducting
  these Judicial Combats.--A Burgundian Conflict described.--Lady
  Spectatresses.--Duel between Baron des
  Guerres and the Sieur de Faudilles.--Mode of conducting Ordeals
  and Judicial Combats.--The Weapons.--Form of Denial.--The
  Gage.--Duels by Proxy.--Bravoes, or Champions.--Trial
  by Hot Iron.--Trial by Hot and Cold Water.--Ordeal
  of the Cross.--Ordeal by Balance.--Ordeal by Poison.--Ordeal
  by Hot Oil.--Antiquity of the practice of Ordeals.--First Fire
  Ordeal.--Story of Simplicius Bishop of Autun.--Account of a
  Trial by Hot Water                                                  21


  CHAPTER IV.

  CELEBRATED JUDICIAL DUELS.

  Combat between Macaire and the Dog of Montargis.--Between
  the King of Burgundy’s Chamberlain and Gamekeeper.--Between
  a Courtier of Rharvald King of Lombardy
  and a Cousin of the Queen.--Between Gontran and Ingelgerius,
  Count of Anjou.--Ecclesiastical trials by battle.--Singular
  Trial by Battle at Toledo.--Judicial trials instituted by
  French Parliaments.--Edicts prohibiting Duels.--The Saviour’s
  truce.--Account of the celebrated Duel between Jarnac and
  De la Chasteneraye.--Combat between Albert de Luignes
  and Panier.--Maugerel the King’s Killer.--Abolition of the
  Trial by Ordeal in England.--Ordeal of the heated Ploughshares.--Combat
  between Edward Ironside and Canute.--Introduction
  of Duelling into England.--Law of Alfred.--Laws
  of Edmund.--Price of Wounds and Injuries regulated.--Decision
  of the Cross.--Ordeal by the Consecrated Bread and Cheese,
  or Corsned.--Settlement of Feuds by Pecuniary Compensation.--Combat
  between William Count d’Eu and Godefroi
  Baynard--Between Henry de Essex and Robert de Montfort.--Institution
  of the Grand Assizes, or Trial by Jury, by
  Henry the Second.--Trial of Battle before the Court of Common
  Pleas                                                               44

  CHAPTER V.

  INSTITUTION OF CHIVALRY AND DUELS.

  Origin of Chivalric Laws and Customs.--The Assumption of
  Arms considered a Religious Rite.--Gallantry.--Union of Love and
  Religion.--Institution of Knighthood.--Tilts and Tournaments.--Increase
  of Duelling.--Degrading results of Chivalry.--Desperate
  pranks of the Crusaders.--Massacre of the Albigenses.--Knighthood
  becomes instrumental to Clerical or Military
  Ambition.--The Dog of Our Lady.--Francis the First’s
  Principle of Honour.--Giving the Lie.--First Chivalric Meeting.--Rules
  and Regulations for the Management of Tournaments.--Tournaments
  forbidden by the Clergy.--Edward the
  First challenged by the Count de Chalons.--His joust with the
  French Knights.--The petty Battle of Chalons.--Fatal Encounter
  of Henry the Second of France with Count Montgomery.--Ferocity
  and absurdity of these “Points of Honour.”--Deadly
