"And now we prepare the coronation feast, and other wonders for my people."
During coronations the seneschal would hold the royal sceptre and oversee the coronation feast.
I hear they've named you Kingslayer' he said to me at his coronation feast.
He was quietly thoughtful, his young companion tautly silent, as they made their way up to the castle afterward for the coronation feast and its informal Court.
This behaviour continued at the coronation feast after the king's return, during which the king largely ignored his new wife in favour of Gaveston.
Nor could the king's day end with his return to the castle, for there was yet the obligatory coronation feast to be endured.
Asking the king about pedas at his son's coronation feast was akin to asking a wedding host if drinking water would be available at the feast.
Contemporaries marvelled at the scale of the new building, which later served as the setting for coronation feasts and as the seat of royal government.
The table was used by monarchs from the 13th century onward for coronation feasts and state banquets.
Anyway, there was a coronation feast to prepare.