When he encountered Adam Gurdon after Evesham he forced him single-handed to beg for mercy.

At the opening of his reign he saved his life by sheer fighting in a tournament at Challon.

It was this love of adventure which lent itself to the frivolous unreality of the new chivalry.

His fame as a general seemed a small thing to Edward when compared with his fame as a knight.

At his "Round Table of Kenilworth" a hundred lords and ladies, "clad all in silk," renewed the faded glories of Arthur's Court.