Editing Round Table (section)

==Historical Round Table of Edward III==
On 22 January 1344, after a tournament at [[Windsor Castle]], King [[Edward III of England]] (r. 1327–1377) swore an oath to restore the Order of the Round Table to the same as that of King Arthur. Receiving agreement from the earls and knights present, Edward announced that the order's first meeting would take place during [[Pentecost]]. The plan never came to fruition, but the new [[Order of the Garter]] carried connotations from this legend by the circular shape of the garter.<ref>Tuck, Anthony (1985). Crown and Nobility 1272–1461: Political Conflict in Late Medieval England. London: Fontana. ISBN 0-00-686084-2, p. 133.</ref> Edward's wartime experiences during the [[Crécy campaign]] (1346–1347) seem to have been a determining factor in his abandonment of the Round Table project. It has been argued that the total warfare tactics employed by the English at [[Battle of Crécy|Crécy]] in 1346 were contrary to Arthurian chivalric ideals and made Arthur a problematic paradigm for Edward, especially at the time of the institution of the Garter.<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Berard |first=Christopher |date=2012 |title=Edward III's Abandoned Order of the Round Table |journal=Arthurian Literature |volume=29 |pages=1–40 |isbn=9781843843337 |jstor=10.7722/j.ctt1x71zc}}</ref> There are no formal references to King Arthur and the Round Table in the surviving early 15th-century copies of the Statutes of the Garter. However, the Garter Feast of 1358 did involve a Round Table game in an overlap between the projected Round Table fellowship and the actualized Order of the Garter.<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Berard |first=Christopher |date=2016 |title=Edward III's Abandoned Order of the Round Table Revisited: Political Arthurianism after Poitiers |url=https://boydellandbrewer.com/series/arthurian-literature/arthurian-literature-xxxiii-hb.html |journal=Arthurian Literature |volume=33 |pages=70–109}}</ref>