Because it was becoming too violent
he wanted to stop the rise in football hooliganism
1365
So that people could practice archery
to avoid confrontations with the French
His soldiers were to focused on the sport of bowling, that he had to ban it so they would go back to practicing archery instead
king Henry the eighth
lancelot
King Ban and Elaine
ray ban
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He was either born in Avalon, son of the Lady of the Lake by King Ban, or in Brittany. Brittany is modern-day Bretagne, in Western France. At the time of King Arthur, it was under English control. Stories where Lancelot was not born of the Lady place him as the son of King Ban and Ban's wife, rulers of Brittany. These legends say he was the foster child of the Lady.
because it was thought that it distracted his men from archery practice