Interesting

From a list I'm reading:

"The autumn season, marked by a cluster of Western feast-days of saints associated with hunting,

Giles September 1
Eustace September 20
Hubert November 3 (the morrow of Eustace's feast in the East)
Leonard November 6
Martin November 11

is also the season when local courts met in hunting forests in England (chiefly royal) to collect dues for grazing cattle (September 14, fifteen days before Michaelmas) and pigs (in and around November 11).

It's a chicken-and-egg thing, whether the customs preceded or followed the feasts, but fascinating to consider that medieval kings (and queens), progressing from one chase to another, were caught up not only with the celebrations associated with the collection of customary dues, but also with the commemoration of saints whose tales were pinned to the hunting field.

English historiography normally associates royal hunting forests with the 'Norman yoke' but it is increasingly clear that they had an earlier existence.

It would be interesting to know whether there is a similar seasonal relationship on the Continent between the feast days of hunting saints and the cycle of forest administration.

Best wishes
Graham