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Larry Bohnham
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 Posted: Sat 20 Nov, 2010 10:54 am Post subject: What was worn under an Armet |
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What was typically worn under the late 15th - late 16th cent Armet type helmet? Was a maille coif still used or just a padded arming cap? The armet looks very form fitting to the head and I have no idea how much clearance was provided for standoff distance between the plate and the skull. Were the armet's just heavily lined/padded for wear directly against the scalp?
"No athlete can fight tenaciously who has never received any blows; he must see his blood flow and hear his teeth crack under the fist of his adversary..."
Roger of Hoveden, d.1201
a furore Normannorum libera nos Domine
"Henry, get down off that horse with that sword, you'll put someone's eye out!" Mrs. Bolingbroke's advice to her son, Henry, on the eve of the battle of Agincourt
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Randall Moffett
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It seems that they either had an attached mail aventail or a gorget plate. Some had a wrapper plate on the front that also had a gorget. I assume these were worn with mail mantles at times.
As for padding they seem to have been lined. I think several originals still survive.
RPM
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