Trial by combat (also wager of battle, or judicial duel) was a method of
Germanic law to settle accusations in the absence of witnesses or a confession, in which two parties in dispute fought in single
combat; the winner of the fight was proclaimed to be right. In essence, it is a judicially-
sanctioned duel. It remained in use throughout the European
Middle Ages and gradually disappeared in the
16th century.
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Generally fought between combatants of
knightly rank between the appellant and the defendant. A charge of dishonorable conduct underlies the combat, fought to the death before
judges . Not a
tournament , it is a form of trial by combat. Many of the surviving
fechtbuchs seem to describe techniques used in the judicial duel that would have been forbidden in the tournament, such as piercing an opponent’s foot with the butt-spike of a
poleaxe .
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