- A
rerebrace (sometimes
known as an
upper cannon) is a
piece of
armour designed to
protect the
upper arms (above the elbow).
Splint rerebraces were a feature...
- By the 1450s, however, they were
often attached to the
upper cannon or
rerebrace, a
feature that
continued into the 16th century.
According to some pictorial...
-
pieces of
armour worn to
cover the
entire arm (encomp****ing vambrace,
rerebrace, and
possibly a couter). Armlet-wearing
soldier of the
British Royal Military...
- the
front of the
shoulder and the armpit, worn over top of a pauldron.
Rerebrace or br****art or
upper cannon (of vambrace)
Plate that
covers the section...
- part of
transitional armour,
where it was also used to form
cuisses and
rerebraces.
While a few
complete suits of
armour have been
found made from splints...
-
transitional style arm
defenses could employ steel pauldrons,
leather rerebraces,
steel elbow cops and
leather vambraces.
These items would be strapped...
- rondels,
eventually evolving into the
plate arm
harness consisting of the
rerebrace, vambrace, and
spaulder or pauldron. The legs too were
covered in plates...
- cloth. This was
often worn with faulds,
pauldrons and arm
protection (
rerebraces and vambraces),
sometimes covered in
expensive textiles like sateen, velvet...
-
besagews (also
known as rondels)
which were
mostly used in
Gothic Armour,
rerebraces, couters, vambraces, gauntlets, a cuir**** (breastplate and backplate)...
- in
armour embowed grasping in the hand a
broken tilting lance or, the
rerebrace charged with a
cross pattée sable.
Escutcheon Argent, on a
chevron between...
