Articles for tag: Jousting, Renaissance Faires, Renaissance Festivals

Karla News

Warhorses of the Hanlon-Lees Jousting Company

They were destriers, chargers, coursers. Proud, powerful names for equally mighty horses bred to catapult the armored knight into the forefront of battle. From the twelfth century to the fifteenth, the warhorse reigned supreme as the most feared weapon of European warfare. Thundering hooves rumbled the ground from England and France to Asia Minor and ...

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Carolina Renaissance Festival in Huntersville, NC

A 16th Century marketplace will be coming to Huntersville, North Carolina in October. The Carolina Renaissance Festival will take place in Huntersville, just north of Charlotte, NC. The Carolina Renaissance Festival and Artisan Marketplace will be filled with lords and ladies, gallant knights in armor, wenches, merchants and all manner of characters from the medieval ...

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Medieval Times Dinner Theatre – Dallas Style

Hear ye! Hear ye! The fun is about begin! You pull up into the parking lot of Medieval Times Dinner Theater and lo and behold, there stands a wondrous castle! Yes folks right near downtown Dallas and practically across the street from our hotel stood a beacon drawing me too it. I could not deny ...

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Jousting Knights with Mounts and Lance

Jousting is a tournament in which young knights may showcase their lance and horse riding skills. Those brave knights jousting in this dangerous tournament must have unlimited courage and skill with their lance. The following is a guide for such brave knights wishing to enter in a jousting tournament for the first time. Protective equipment ...