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That's really a very broad timeframe -- too broad for any kind of useful generalisation. Besides, all the items you mentioned (shields, caparisons, surcoats/jupons/lentners/whatever) didn't always carry the wearer's personal or unit heraldry; sometimes they were just a plain colour, and sometimes they bore unrelated symbold. |
Let's say 14th until mid. 15th centuries' England and France.
Also, I also had never asked before, but what were the origins of Men-at-Arms in battles as Agincourt? What was approximately the proportions of these origins, for example, if there were more than squires than sergeants and so ...
By the way, how they recruited sergeants at that time? They came from households o or were recruited by levies?