Where garden is, was place of tilt
Or tournament, where blood was spilt;
Where stain’d was many a foeman’s hilt
With blood of knight laid low.
The martial exercise of Tilting is said to have been introduced some
time between the years 920 and 937, by Henry I of Germany, styled
Anceps, or Falconer, but better known by the appellation of the Fowler:
his motto was, “Tardus ad vindictam, ad beneficentiam velox.”[14] He is
likewise said to have purchased the lance which pierced our Saviour’s
side, and, with it, some of the nails of the holy cross; giving in
exchange a great portion of Suabia, and other valuable gifts.