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Extant 15th Century German Gothic Armour

I have to thank to the members of Arms and Armour Forum Image Database (http://www.armsandarmourforum.com) for permission to use their photos for this list. I would also like to thank Carlo Paggiarino and Tobias Capwell for all the help.

Of course the list isn't in finished state - I unfortunately don't have much info on many of the suits. I would really need a book like Boccia's - Le armature di S. Maria delle Grazie for German armour, which is sadly missing.

I have roughly divided armours into these “styles” - German, Italo-German composite style (including “alla Tedesca”, Italian made armour in German style), Innsbruck style and the remaining suits (mostly Spanish).

Note: although the list contains quite a large number of suits it is poorly suited for showing of armour development. We have only one suit from “Kastenbrust” era (and not a very typical one). The rest are almost all from the last quarter of 15th century, when the “High Gothic” style fully emerged, so we are missing the radical changes German artwork shows from 1450 to 1470.

The list:

German armour

1440 - 1450 Wien, Austria, Wien Museum Karlsplatz, inv.no. 127 000-009, composite Kastenbrust armour, South German. Legs later, 1460
1470 (horse armour ca. 1480-1490) Berlin, Germany, Deutsches Historisches Museum, W. 1052, equestrian field armour, Landshut
1470 Gothic Armour - no info, similar suits appear in Bildindex.de, described as being in Munchen, Bayerisches Nationalmuseum
1470 - 1480 Nuremberg, Germany, Germanisches National Museum, Landshut, composite
1475 - 1485 London, UK, The Wallace Collection, A21, composite
1475 -1500 Diest, Belgium, Stedelijk Museum, province of Flemish Brabant, reproduction?
1480 Vienna, Austria, Kunsthistorisches Museum, A.60, armour of Archduke Maximillian I. (later Emperor) by Lorenz Helmschmied of Augsburg
1480 Berlin, Germany, Klingbeil Collection, composite, south German and Austrian
1480 Leeds, UK, Royal Armouries, south German, made for Waldemar VI of Anhalt-Zerbst
1480 New York, USA, Metropolitan Museum, de Dino collection, Franco – Italian, removed from display, reproduction?
1480 - 1490 Ingolstadt, Germany, Bayerisches Armeemuseum, south German, partially supplemented armour
1480-1490 - Wien, Austria, Wien Museum Karlsplatz, inv.no 127.010, by Lorenz Helmschmied
1484 - Vienna, Austria, Kunsthistorisches Museum, A 62, armour for Archduke Sigismund von Tirol, by Lorenz Helmschmid, Augsburg
1485 - Vienna, Austria, Kunsthistorisches Museum, A58 and A126, composite, parts made for Sigismund of Tyrol by Lorenz Helmschmied
1492 - Vienna, Austria, Kunsthistorisches Museum, A 79, armour of Emperor Maximillian I. by Lorenz Helmschmied
1490 - 1511 – Vienna, Austria, Kunsthistorisches Museum, equestrian composite armour for Emperor Maximilian I, South German and Netherlands
Dresden, Germany, Staatlichen Kunstsammlungen, cuirass, bevor and sallet
Glatt, Germany, Glatt Castle
London, UK, The Wallace Collection? composite, breast and arm defences German
Grandson, Switzerland, Grandson castle, reproduction?
Brussels, Belgium, Koninklijk Legermuseum, composite armour, German
Hohenschwangau, Germany, Hohenschwangau castle, reproduction? Pauldrons were at one time assembled incorrectly
Philadelphia, USA, Philadelphia Museum of Art, composite armour, parts are from fortress of Chalcis on the island of Euboea, Greece, known as the "Chalcis Hoard"
Moscow, Russia, The Kremlin Armoury
Nuremberg, Germany, Kaiserburg Museum
Paris, France, Musée de l'Armée (Les Invalides)
Philadelphia, USA, Philadelphia Museum of Art
Philadelphia, USA, Philadelphia Museum of Art
St Petersburg, Russia, The State Hermitage
St Petersburg, Russia, The State Hermitage
Varna, Bulgaria, King Wladislav III Jagelo Mausoleum
Warsaw, Poland, Polish Army Museum (Muzeum Wojska Polskiego)
Worcester, USA, Higgins Armoury and Museum, Germany (Munich), 1911-1919, based on the original of 1485. This is a (rather free) replica of the armour of Archduke Sigismund of Tyrol.

Italian armour „alla Tedesca“ (in German style) and Italo-German composite style

1450 - 1460 Worcester, USA, Higgins Armoury and Museum, inv. no. 2607, composite Field Armor, 1440-1505, North Italian and possibly Flemish, Giovanni da Garavelle, Giovanni dei Barini (called Negroli), and others.
1470 Schwäbisch Gmünd, Germany,Museum im Prediger, from church in Heiligenkreuz, milanese armour with certain German stylistic elements
1470 Leeds, UK, Royal Armouries, II.168, composite armour "alla tedesca", breastplate formerly in Churburg, Milano and Brescia
1470 Leeds, UK, Royal Armouries, composite armour, Milano

Innsbruck style

1480 Churburg, Italy, CH S24, armour of Gaudenz von Matsch, made in Innsbruck, German and Italian influences
1488 - 1489 Vienna, Austria, Kunsthistorisches Museum A9, by Hans Prunner for Philip I the Handsome, king of Castile and Léon
Berlin, Germany, Klingbeil Collection, armour in the style of Jörg Treitz of Innsbruck, composite, Tyrolean (reproduction?)
1490 Churburg, Italy, CH S31, tournament partial armour, Innsbruck
Images from Trapp, Oswald, The Armoury of the Castle of Churburg

Other suits of armour

1475 – 1500 Paris, France, Musée de l'Armée (Les Invalides), Spanish
1475 – 1500 Paris, France, Musée de l'Armée (Les Invalides), Spanish
1475 Paris, France, Musée de l'Armée (Les Invalides), Milan, Missaglia, ex Argaiz and Pauilhac collection
Madrid, Spain, Real Armeria, Spanish armour

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German armour

1440 - 1450 Wien, Austria, Wien Museum Karlsplatz, inv.no. 127 000-009, composite Kastenbrust armour, South German. Legs later, 1460
Images courtesy of Blaz Berlec
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1470 (horse armour ca. 1480-1490) Berlin, Germany, Deutsches Historisches Museum, W. 1052, equestrian field armour, Landshut
Images courtesy of Matthias Goll, AAF ID
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1470 Gothic Armour - no info, similar suits appear in Bildindex.de, described as being in Munchen, Bayerisches Nationalmuseum
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1470 - 1480 Nuremberg, Germany, Germanisches National Museum, Landshut, composite
Images courtesy of Jan Winkler*, AAF ID
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1475 - 1485 London, UK, The Wallace Collection, A21, composite
Front image from Edge D, Williams A, Study of the German Gothic 15th century equestrian armour(A21) Image of back courtesy of Dr. Andrea Carloni (Rimini, Italy), AAF ID
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