Templar Knight on a Fresco, Cressac, France, 12th-century.

A 12th century fresco from the Templars' chapel at Cressac-sur-Charente, France, showing a single knight charging on horseback with couched lance. Although the literature of the time took the skill for granted, effective handling of the lance on horseback in battle required daily practice.
From p.78 Historical Atlas of the Crusades by Angus Konsta.
(Picture: M. Debès. Hurault phot., reproduced from La Peinture murale en France: le haut moyen age et l'époque romane, by Paul Deschamps and Marc Thibout: Collection Arts et Historia, Éditions d'histoire et d'art, Librairie Plon, Paris 1951, p. 137, plate LXVII (1)).

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