Favor (ladies)

At a tournament , pas d’armes , round table , or in romantic tales , ladies would bestow some token of their patronage upon a knight to carry into battle . According to the tenets of courtly love , a major influence on the emerging concept of chivalry . These seem to have taken the form of strips of cloth worn around the arm, embroidered sleeves, or some other token. See Chronique: The Journal of Chivalry #7 .