![]() Recalling his Iberian campaigns of the 1370s and 1380s, and the bravery of the Portuguese knights he encountered there, Lancaster recommended that they search for a champion among them. ![]() The twelve offending knights, renowned for their martial prowess, were too widely feared. The ladies appealed to their master, John of Gaunt, Duke of Lancaster, but he was unable to find any English champions to defend the honor of the ladies. It tells the story of twelve Portuguese knights who travelled to England at the request of twelve English ladies to avenge their insult by a group of English knights.Īccording to the legend, in the 1390s, twelve English knights insulted twelve ladies-in-waiting of the household of the Duchess of Lancaster. The Twelve of England (in Portuguese: Os Doze de Inglaterra) is a Portuguese chivalric legend of 15th-century origin, famously related by the poet Luís de Camões in his 1572 Os Lusíadas (Canto VI). That, with his helm-plume flogs his courser's side." ![]() This hath his snow-white mail with vermeil dyed That groaneth falling with his falling steed ![]() ![]() " This, from his charger not dismounting flies Azulejo panel by Jorge Colaço at Buçaco Palace, depicting the tournament at Smithfield: ![]()
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