A Chivalric Life

First English translation of the chivalric biography of the foremost knight of the late Middle Ages. Jacques de Lalaing ( c. 1421-53) was undoubtedly the most famous knight at the court of the Burgundian duke, Philip the Good, one who was celebrated in his own lifetime for the dazzling feats of arms that he performed in jousts across Europe during the 1440s. Serving the duke first as a councillor and ambassador to launch a new crusade and then as a fearless military leader on a campaign to put d