Medinaceli © Mark Wade

Then Don Arias Gonzalo called for another son, whose name was Diego Arias, and said unto him, To horse! and go fight to deliver this Council and to revenge the death of your brother: and he answered, For this am I come hither.

Then his father gave him his blessing and went with him to the lists.

And the judges took the reins of the two champions and led them each to his place, and went out and left them in the lists.

And they ran against each other with such force that both shields failed, and in another career they brake their lances.

Then laid they hand on their good swords, and delivered such blows that their helmets were cut away, and the sleeves of the mail.

And at length Diego Arias received such a blow near the heart that he fell dead.

And Don Diego Ordonez went to the bar and laid hold on it, and cried out to Don Arias Gonzalo, Send me another son, for I have conquered two, thanks be to God.

Then the judges came and said that the dead knight was not yet out of the lists, and that he must alight and cast him out.

And Don Diego Ordonez did as they had directed him, and alighted from his horse and took the dead man by the leg, and dragged him to the line, and then letting the leg fall he thrust him out of the lists with his feet.

And then he went and laid hand upon the bar again, saying that he had liefer fight with a living man than drag a dead one out of the field.

And then the judges came to him, and led him to the tent, and disarmed him, and gave him the three sops and the wine, as they had done before, and sent to say to Don Arias Gonzalo that this son also was slain, and that he should send another.