Trials by combat

thumb|Choosing the king. Top: the three ecclesiastical princes choosing the king, pointing at him. Middle: the Electorate of the Palatinate|Count Palatine of the Rhine hands over a golden bowl, acting as a servant. Behind him, the Duke of Saxony with his marshall's staff and the [[Margrave of Brandenburg bringing a bowl of warm water, as a valet. Below, the new king in front of the great men of the empire (Heidelberg Sachsenspiegel, around 1300)]] thumb|Page in Sachsenspiegel about succession (Heidelberg edition)

method of settling accusations within Germanic law by dueling

count of Barcelona (1054-1097)

code of Lombard customary law

300px|right|thumb|Egill Skallagrímsson engaging in holmgang with Berg-Önundr, painting by [[Johannes Flintoe]] Holmgang (, , Danish and , ) is a duel practiced by early medieval Scandinavians. It was a legally recognized way to settle disputes.

thumb|Title page of a 1901 printing thumb|Charlemagne depicted in a 15th-century manuscript of the Schwabenspiegel The Schwabenspiegel is a legal code, written in ca. 1275 by a Franciscan friar in Augsburg. It deals mainly with questions of land ownership and fiefdom, and it is based on the Pentateuch, Roman law as well as Canon law. Written in Middle High German, it draws on the early 13th century Sachsenspiegel, and is immediately dependent on the '''' code.

episode of Game of Thrones (S1 E6)

French medieval knight

South German fencing tradition

thumb|300px|The torture of Ganelon. Grandes Chroniques de France, 14th century.

Anglo-Norman noble

early medieval law code of the Alamanni

episode of Game of Thrones (S4 E8)

French noble

episode of Game of Thrones (S3 E5)

11 Aug 979

French medieval knight

1166 act of Henry II of England