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James Rogers
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Posted: Tue 09 Apr, 2019 4:45 am Post subject: How common were protective rondels on poleaxes? |
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I think everyone here is probably familiar with that famous Wallace Collection poleaxe, A926. Hammer/spike/axe on the head, trailing into four langets, all terminating at a protective disc partway down the haft. I haven't had the luxury of perusing museum archives to know how common this feature was, but it seems to be relatively uncommon on modern reproductions. Do any experienced scholars here know roughly how common these rondels were? Were they largely confined to particular regions or time periods?
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Pedro Paulo Gaião
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Posted: Tue 09 Apr, 2019 4:40 pm Post subject: Re: How common were protective rondels on poleaxes? |
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The late 15th-century version of Schilling's chronicle you often find them with the roundel, a lot of artistic evidence I know does show it, actually. I believe it would be more profitable to find historical pieces and artistic evidence for pollaxes WITHOUT the roundels to get the idea of how uncommon the absence of protective rondels were. Considering they were a weapon for the class of men-at-arms and up, it doesn't seen unthinkable of them to have a more expensive protection like this.
The get an example, there is a 1520-30's portuguese printing of a famous 15th century source called "Crônica do Condestrabre", the print apparently was based in a mid-to-late representation of portuguese armor, and you can find Saint Nuno de Álvares, the Constable of Portugal, holding a war hammer with a protective roundel:
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William Knight
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