Dec 4, 2025
Jaume Ferrer narrowly escaped being gored by a bull in the festivities that took place in Burgos in April 1497 after the marriage of Prince Juan and Margaret of Austria. He was on horseback, but without a lance, when a bull charged at him, and he was thrown to the ground over the ears of his horse when the horse tripped on the cobbled street. He quickly jumped to his feet and confronted the bull, with his cape in his left hand and his unsheathed sword in his right. The bull raised and lowered its head two or three times as if about to attack him, and then turned away in pursuit of others
From Secrets of Pinar's Game: Court Ladies and Courtly Verse in Fifteenth-Century Spain, by Roger Boase, published 2017.
