Nevertheless, judicial duels continued to be popular throughout the 14th and 15th centuries.

Subsequent historians treated the battle as a sort of judicial duel deciding which brother would accede to the other's kingdom.

The two men fought a judicial duel a few months later.

To illustrate the point, he describes an incident recorded in a chronicle of Hainault concerning a judicial duel that was to take place at dawn.

In Bourg-en-Bresse in 1397 he agreed to a judicial duel to prove his innocence.

With the 16th century, the tradition becomes more of a sportitive exercise and less of a martial art designed for judicial duels or the battlefield.

This was why the judicial duel, though nicely attuned to the spirit of a martial aristocracy, rarely came off.

Her father was accused of treason and lost a judicial duel in 1163.

This was the last officially recognized judicial duel fought in France.

If the case could not be decided by normal means, then a judicial duel would be held to adjudicate the dispute, God choosing the victor.