The Battle of Bosworth Field, fought on 22 August 1485, was the last significant battle of the Wars of the Roses. Every year, reenactors from around the UK gather for the Bosworth Medieval Festival, featuring armoured jousting and battlefield demonstrations by Destrier. Album features the knights jousting, fighting from horseback as well as display of martial skills.
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Battle of Bosworth: Joust
Welcome to the Knyghtly Armes Resource Gallery
We are pleased to provide an ever-growing collection of arms and armour photographs as a resource to students of Medieval history. We have been fortunate enough to view some of the finest Medieval collections in Europe including the Wallace Collection in London, Royal Armouries in Leeds, Musée de l'Armée in Paris, Legermuseum in Delft, and, most recently, La Real Armería in Madrid. Users of the Knyghtly Armes site are permitted to freely reproduce the digital images for non-commercial purposes. All that is required is for Knyghtly Armes to be acknowledged as the source.
More to come
Our digital library contains thousands of images of arms and armour from museums around the world in addition to photos from dozens of living history events over the years. We recently changed servers and, unfortunately, much of the content did not transfer over as well as we would have liked. Please be patient while we completely rebuild our online gallery.
Featured Videos
Occasionally, we flip the camera switch over to video in order to catch some of the action. Check out a selection of featured videos taken from our Knyghtly Armes channel on YouTube.