The Feast of the Swans was a chivalric celebration of the knighting of 267 men at Westminster Abbey on Whitsunday in 1306. It followed a proclamation by Edward I that all esquires eligible for knighthood should come to Westminster to be knighted in turn by their future king, and to march with him against the Scots.
The Feast of the Swans was a chivalric celebration of the knighting of 267 men at Westminster Abbey on Whitsunday in 1306. It followed a proclamation by Edward I that all esquires eligible for knighthood should come to Westminster to be knighted in turn by their future king, and to march with him against the Scots.
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