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The knight's posture, how he is standing back from his fallen foe and seems dignified as he pays his due respects to the priest giving out the last rights, seems appropriately solemn for this sort of event. The choice of location, which seems rather remote with the misty mountains in the background and the fog covered rocks in front, brings to mind the idea of how far away these two knights were in their final battle, and a bit of sorrow that the knight in red (I believe of the Lancaster side if my suspicions that this is or was inspired by the War of the Roses are accurate) that he has died so far away from home.
The well-dressed man to the left in gold-trimmed robes represents the political role in the conflict in my mind, and brings with it a the connotations of honorable soldiers being forced to do battle for causes far removed from their own realities. Where fighting in the streets may promote cheers and boos, and a duel in the courts give an impression of noble sport of a particularly bloody kind, his presence evokes the idea of war as being the burdens of policies of succession and treaties hammered out by distant courts and then brought to fruition on the backs of those below and presumably so far away as their suffering is inconsequential for those who make it happen.