- 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...
- 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...
- (fauld or t****et)
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...
- 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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Detail of
inlaid br****
writing box, with
soldier wearing a
hauberk. Mosul, 1230–1250 CE,
British Museum....
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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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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...
- 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"...
- 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...
