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wise engaged each other as if in 

 battle. 



The Germans claim to have been 

 the originators of these sports in 936. 

 The French assert that Geofrj of 

 Pre villi in Anjou, who was killed at 

 Gaunt in 1066, was the first to mvent the 

 tournament. But from whatever coun- 

 try it derived its origin large horses 

 must have been required to carry heavy 

 men weighted with armour ; conse- 

 quently it is certain that weight-carry- 

 ing horses at the dates above indicated, 

 were somewhat numerously represented. 

 The tournament was not, however, es- 

 tablished in England until sixty years 

 after the Norman conquest, but at the Large horses 



from Nor- 



same time William and his followers "^andy. 

 brought over with them from Normandy 



