Notice that one knight fights with a sword and the other with a bow.   The knight with the sword wears heavy amour and helmet.

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Illumination of knights jousting.  This late fifteenth-century manuscript painting show knights in plate armour.  No knight would have worn plate armour in combat.  Illustration from Paris, Bibliothèque nationale française, Español 36, fol. 22r.