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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...
- bites of creatures such as sharks. A coat of this armour is often called a hauberk or sometimes a byrnie. The earliest examples of surviving mail were found...
- 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...
- (fauld or t****et) Wakibiki (bezagews) Nodowa (gorget) Kusari katabira (hauberk) Kikko katabira (brigandine) Kôgake (sabaton) Kusari shikoro (aventail)...
- 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...
- armour was chainmail hauberks, usually knee-length, with slits to allow riding, some with sleeves to the elbows. Some hauberks may have been made of...
- 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...
- counterparts, with noble and non-noble milites and cavallers wearing mail hauberks, separate mail coifs and metal helmets, and armed with maces, cavalry axes...
- 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...
- Detail of inlaid br**** writing box, with soldier wearing a hauberk. Mosul, 1230–1250 CE, British Museum....