King Henry II of France mortally wounded in the face by the lance of Gabriel de Montgomery in a tournament, 1559. From a 16th century print. Le roi Henri II blesse par Montgomery dans un tournoi. Woodcut by Jules Huyot from Paul Lacroixs La Vie Militaire et Religieuse au Moyen Age et a lEpoque de la Renaissance, Military and Religious Life in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance, Paris, 1873.
King Henry II of France mortally wounded in the face by the lance of Gabriel de Montgomery in a tournament, 1559. From a 16th century print. Le roi Henri II blesse par Montgomery dans un tournoi. Woodcut by Jules Huyot from Paul Lacroixs La Vie Militaire et Religieuse au Moyen Age et a lEpoque de la Renaissance, Military and Religious Life in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance, Paris, 1873.