Few historical problems have received so much attention among those studying the modern period and so little attention among medieval scholars as that of peacemaking. Searching the shelves of any university library it soon becomes evident that the issue of peacemaking has been tackled from many angles in the modern period, so that, for instance, the 1919 conference of Paris intended to settle the unresolved issues of the FirstWorldWar has seen studies from the vantage point of almost every individual nation represented on that occasion. Yet a similar search of the literature for the medieval period yields little on the subject of peacemaking. War, by contrast, carries an extensive literature for the medieval period, ranging from the detailed study of battles, foot soldiers, tactics and strategy by Verbruggen to studies of weapons, castles, the chivalric code or even the laws of war in the later Middle Ages. This lack of secondary literature on the subject of peacemaking was highlighted in 1998 by Professor Christopher Holdsworth in an article entitled ‘Peacemaking in the Twelfth Century’ published in Anglo-Norman Studies 14, 1996 (1997). In his article Holdsworth investigated the practices surrounding the making of peace in agreements concluded during the reigns of Henry I and Henry II, and showed that they all had certain themes in common: envoys and mediators, hostages, and the provisions made for keeping the terms agreed. It is, however, one feature of peacemaking that received little attention by Holdsworth that will be the focus of this discussion; namely peace conferences, and more specifically, the sites of the face-to-face, personal encounters.