A new study may have identified some of the elite horses medieval English knights rode during jousts, like the one in this 13th century illustration.got at least one thing right. Medieval English knights donned armor, mounted highly trained horses, and jousted with long lances in spectacular ritual combats. King Henry VIII was obsessed with jousting, until a 1536 spill from a horse during a tournament left him with traumatic injuries., a new study finds.
Historical documents show England’s medieval elite took great interest in horses. A record of royal horses called the Equitium Regis, for example, lists hundreds of horses belonging to the royal family in the late 13th and early 14th century C.E., often by name and sometimes geographic origin. An open field just 750 meters from the medieval royal palace seems to have been an exception. Archaeologists excavated the site, now buried under modern-day apartments on London’s Elverton Street just a few hundred meters from Buckingham Palace, during construction work in the 1990s. They found 197 burial pits and the whole or partial skeletal remains of 70 horses.
Because mammals build up tooth enamel in layers when young, the isotopes revealed where the horses spent the first few years of their lives. About half carried a mix of isotopes that was a better match for Scandinavia or continental Europe than the area around London. “Fifty percent of the horses we looked at came from a long way off,” says study author Alexander Pryor, an archaeological scientist at Exeter.
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