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    A hauberk or byrnie is a mail shirt. The term is usually used to describe a shirt reaching at least to mid-thigh and including sleeves. A haubergeon ("little...
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    East as late as the 17th century. A coat of this armour is often called a hauberk or sometimes a byrnie. The earliest examples of surviving mail were found...
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    (fauld or tasset) Wakibiki (bezagews) Nodowa (gorget) Kusari katabira (hauberk) Kikko katabira (brigandine) Kôgake (sabaton) Kusari shikoro (aventail)...
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    early developments of such harness, was described being worn under the hauberk, thus not being visible when all the armor was properly worn. The evidence...
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    the breast was worn in earlier times by men-at-arms in addition to mail hauberks and reinforced coats. It was not until the 14th century that the plate...
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    knights (French: chevaliers) called the fief de haubert, referring to the hauberk, or chain mail shirt worn almost daily by knights, as they would not only...
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    Detail of inlaid brass writing box, with soldier wearing a hauberk. Mosul, 1230–1250 CE, British Museum....
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    centuries, as body armour moved from simple mail hauberks to full plate armour. The couter was added to the hauberk to better protect the elbows, and splinted...
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    ISBN 0-19-920486-1. "There died Walter Sansavoir, pierced by seven arrows through his hauberk and breast." A Database of Crusaders to the Holy Land. "Walter of Boissy-sans-Avoir"...
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  • stroke, but of her defeated foe, "nothing is left" in the empty mantle and hauberk. The Episcopal priest and theologian Fleming Rutledge writes that whereas...
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    counterparts, with noble and non-noble milites and cavallers wearing mail hauberks, separate mail coifs and metal helmets, and armed with maces, cavalry axes...
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    across the back and a quiver of arrows. Cavalry armour consisted of a hauberk with a mail coif and a helmet with a pendant: a throat-guard lined with...
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    knights in the early stages of the Reconquista were equipped with mail hauberk, kite shield, a long sword (designed to fight from the horse), javelins...
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    Tibetan Cavalry armor; riveted mail hauberk with mirror armor, steel helmet, armored belt, 18th–19th century, Met museum....
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    of corn—namely, the London quart;—and one width of dyed and russet and hauberk cloths—namely, two ells below the selvage..." As of the 21st century, the...
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    one under the main one being shorter or even made of fabric or leather. Hauberks and large wooden or wickerwork shields were also used as protection in...
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    Jazerant (/ˈdʒæzərənt/), or hauberk jazerant, is a form of medieval light coat of armour consisting of mail between layers of fabric or leather. It was...
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    for protection used large shields ("kite-shields"), lamellar armour and hauberk mail Gorelik, Michael (1979). Oriental Armour of the Near and Middle East...
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    Another was Petronilla de Grandmesnil, Countess of Leicester; wearing a mail hauberk with a sword and a shield, she defended her lands from Henry II of England...
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    worn by itself or as an augmentation to other armour, such as over a mail hauberk. The lamellar cuirass was especially popular with the Rus, as well as Mongols...
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    in Europe and knights of the period were wearing mail in the form of a hauberk over a padded tunic. Plates protecting the torso reappeared in the 1220s...
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    the chain mail hauberk much easier and more common. By the mid-15th century most plate was worn alone and without the need of a hauberk. Advances in metal...
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    marquis, prince, sir), and the art of war (armour, baldric, dungeon, hauberk, mail, portcullis, rampart, surcoat). Many of these words related to the...
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    from spent bullets and other low-velocity rounds fired from a distance Hauberk, an earlier form of body armor, was used to defend against swords, knives...
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    ISBN 0-19-920486-1. "There died Walter Sansavoir, pierced by seven arrows through his hauberk and breast." Kazhdan, Alexander, ed. (1991). Oxford Dictionary of Byzantium...
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    the rider? Where is the horn that was blowing? Where is the helm and the hauberk, and the bright hair flowing? Where is the hand on the harp-string, and...
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    not have restrictions for non-felons. Brigandine Buff coat Flak jacket Hauberk Jack of plate Mail (armour) Terminal ballistics "Ballistic vest review"...
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    century on, to protect joints and shins, and these were worn over a mail hauberk. Gradually the number of plate components of medieval armour increased...
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    lorica squamata, and the lorica segmentata of the Roman legions, the mail hauberk of the early medieval age, and the full steel plate harness worn by later...
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    implies this in conversation. Hawberk's name likely comes from the word "hauberk", meaning a shirt of mail. Constance Hawberk: Hawberk's daughter, a beautiful...
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