Full Leg Harnesses Full Articulated means a comprehensive leg harness including a cuisse and knee joined with articulation as well as greaves and sabatons.



Full Floating means a comprehensive leg harness including a cuisses, knees, greaves and sabatons all worn without articulated joints between the elements.



Partial Legs means legs are defended with mail that has been supplemented with at least a floating knee cop but do not include both greaves and sabatons. Mail means legs defended entirely with mail. Full Arm Harnesses Full Articulated means a comprehensive arm harness including vambrace, elbow, rerebrace and typically an integrated shoulder defense all joined together with articulated lames.



Full Floating means at least an elbow cop often with other elements such as a vambrace or rerebrace independently fastened to the mail sleeves.



Partial Arms means arms defended with mail that has been supplemented with at least a floating or integrated elbow but does not include both a vambrace and a rerebrace.



Mail means arms defended entirely with mail.

Knee Defenses Articulated means a knee that is joined to the cuisse via lames.



Floating means a knee cop worn with but not articulated to other elements of the leg defense.



Mail means knees defended entirely with mail. Elbow Defenses Roundel means a roundel supplementing the mail to defend the elbow



Integrated means elbow defenses that are incorporated into the vambrace. Articulated means an elbow that is joined to a vambrace and rerebrace.



Floating means an elbow cop usually worn but not joined to other elements of the arm defense. Mail means elbows defended entirely with mail.

Thigh Armour Plate means a solid, smooth plate thigh defense.



Splints means thighs defended with a foundation reinforced with vertical splints.



Studs means thighs defended with a studded defense. These study probably indicate the rivet heads securing plated beneath a covering.



Gamboised means thighs defended with a padded cuisse, often worn over mail.



Mail means thighs defended entirely with mail. Upper Arm Defenses Plate means a solid, smooth plate upper arm defense.



Splints means upper arms defended with a foundation reinforced with vertical splints.



Jack Chains means upper arms defended with a strip secured to the outside of the arms.



Mail means upper arms defended entirely with mail.

Greaves Closed greaves are those that encase both the front and rear of the calves.



Splints means calves defended with a foundation reinforced with vertical splints.



Schynbalds are greaves that defend only the fronts of the calves.



Mail means calves defended entirely by mail. Lower Arm Defenses Plate means a solid, smooth plate lower arm defense.



Splints means lower arms defended with a foundation reinforced with vertical splints.



Jack Chains means lower arms defended with a strip secured to the outside of the arms.



Mail means lower arms defended entirely with mail.

Sabatons Full means sabatons consisting of multiple lames that cover the tops and down the sides of the feet.



Scale means sabatons that are comprised of small scales.



Tops means sabatons consisting of plates that cover only the tops of the feet.



Shoes means feet without any obvious defenses.



Mail means feet defended entirely by mail. Gauntlets Solid means gauntlets that typically do not have any of the embossing associated with hourglass gauntlet metacarpal regions. These typically extend forward to cover some of the fingers with a mitten-like plate. Articulated means gauntlets of hourglass form but with multiple laminations at the wrist.



Hourglass means gauntlets with a wide bell cuff.



Segmented means gauntlets that are made from multiple plates similar to those found at the battle of Wisby.



Mail means gauntlets made of mail. These may be either mitten or fingered form.

Hip Defenses Important Note: This data may be misleading. I have listed mail as the hip defense unless it is patently obvious from the profile that there is some sort of fauld. This conservative approach was taken because I beleave that AT LEAST mail (possibly with a rigid defense over it) was being worn at this time. This has the unfortunate effect of making mail look like a primary defense for much longer than in reality it probably was.





Tassets means a fauld that ends in a pair of attached tassets.



Fauld means a series of uncovered hoops that defend the hips.



Scale means a skirt of scales that defend the hips.



Covered Fauld means a series of covered hoops that defend the hips.



Padding means hips that are defended by a quilted cloth protection. This may be part of a jupon or other garment.



COP means hips that are defended by a coat of plates. Mail means hips defended entirely by mail.

Shoulder Defenses Pauldrons are shoulder defenses that are fully encompassing of the front and back of the shoulders. Integrated spaulders are an articulated extension of the rerebrace.



Spaulders are similar to those above except they appear to be separate from the rerebrace. Scale means a shoulder defended by small scales.



Cop means a small plate that is often attached to the body defense or the mail.



Roundel means a roundel supplementing the mail to defend the shoulder. Mail means shoulders defended entirely by mail.



Body Defenses Important Note: This data may be misleading. I have listed mail as the body defense unless it is patently obvious from the profile that there is some sort of breastplate or coat of plates. This conservative approach was taken because I beleave that AT LEAST mail (possibly with a rigid defense over it) was being worn at this time. This has the unfortunate effect of making mail look like a primary defense for much longer than in reality it probably was.





Kastenbrust means a boxed body defense that is not covered by a jupon.



Globose means a rounded body defense that is not covered by a jupon.



Rounded means a body defense that is covered by a jupon that has a rounded profile. These may represent a globose cuirasses or breastplates or rounded coats of plates.



Scale means a body defended by small scales.

COP means a coat of plates that may have a slightly rounded form.



Mail means a body defended entirely by mail. Because surcoats and jupons were universally worn is it impossible to recognize the rigid body defenses that were worn on top of the mail. Secondary Head Defenses Jousting means a head defense made from multiple plates riveted together with a recurved face plate. A jousting helm was sometimes worn with the bascinet.



Great Helm means a head defense made from multiple plates riveted together. A great helm was sometimes worn with the bascinet. There are numbers of effigies that had a great helm represented in addition to the bascinet they were wearing. The reason they don't appear upon the head is probably because they would block the wearer's face. One can reasonably assume that all listed as mail, and cerviliere and most listed as bascinet had great helms. Their presence here is a fashion of effigy carving rather than a reflection of what was worn. That is why I represented them separately.

Head Defenses Worn by Figure Great Bascinet means a pointed or rounded head defense with solid plate neck defenses either replacing or supplementing the mail aventail.



Bascinet means a pointed or rounded head defense typically with an attached mail aventail. A great helm was sometimes worn with the bascinet.



Cervelliere means a hemispherical or slightly pointed head defense that is worn over a mail coif. A great helm was typically worn with the cervelliere.



Mail means a head defended entirely with a mail coif. This coif may be worn over a cervelliere. A great helm was probably worn in combat over the mail.

All Head Defenses

Great Bascinet means a pointed or rounded head defense with solid plate neck defenses either replacing or supplementing the mail aventail.



Bascinet means a pointed or rounded head defense typically with an attached mail aventail. A great helm was sometimes worn with the bascinet.



Jousting means a head defense made from multiple plates riveted together with a recurved face plate. A jousting helm was sometimes worn with the bascinet.



Great Helm means a head defense made from multiple plates riveted together. A great helm was sometimes worn with the bascinet.



Cervelliere means a hemispherical or slightly pointed head defense that is worn over a mail coif. A great helm was typically worn with the cervelliere.



Mail means a head defended entirely with a mail coif. This coif may be worn over a cervelliere. A great helm was probably worn in combat over the mail.