I told once, and repeat again: your knight armor is nicely made and really accurate. It is really big pleasure to see so good reproduction. Besides, would be interesting to know how tall are you, and what is the total weight of this harness?
@@NervozniZivota35kg is on the heavier side of plate armor, at least by the mid 15th century. Improvements in the coverage of plate helped to lighten the load by drastically reducing the amount of maille needed. Harnesses could be as light as 20kg. Though I’m not sure if that includes the maille voiders, brais (I can’t remember how to spell it, basically maille under pants), and skirt.
Your channel is such a good place to learn about historical armor! The glancing blow to the head made me wince, but I'd imagine it was more of a shock than anything painful.
it doesnt hurt, but its really loud and hurts your ears more than it does physical pain. but that was just a small hit with no effort put in, it looks like.
Nice to see the rear legs armoured so well. Many do not go to these efforts. I have an earlier setup, Scottish. Still trying to find out how the foot was armed with just mail. The grip in field conditions, especially here in Scotland. Leading me to maybe think they had open chausses and tied over a boot. Not sure. Also durability of the this area. Great work. Many thanks.
For cavalry armor it seems armoring the back and inside of the legs was less important but I think an English man at arms would wear just voiders of mail on the back and inside of the leg
Such a good lesson! I loved how you detailed your armor by effigies. I just had my Edward III coat of arms tattooed on my arm so I got a little giddy about the black prince! What were you wearing around the neck? I'm kind of stuck guessing it between a livery necklace or a house badge to distinguish you personally.
These are really great videos. My favourite video is the one where the Knight dresses up in his Armour because it has a really beautiful piece of music accompanying it.
There are, in the UK an awful lot of arming doublets and hose, survivors from the medieval period with chain mail sewn on in certain areas only, such would be the weak spots like the armpits, inside of elbows, groin and back of legs. This negates the need for "whole" mail shirts or leggings being needed. As they are survivors they may only have been available to the very wealthiest, but nonetheless they do exist.
Very good video. It's the same with wearing a gambeson with your 12th century mail. There is no evidence fighters in the 12th century wore a gambeson or other forms of padded armor below their mail. On the contrary - depictions and effigies show slim men at arms, suggesting that they did not wear padding below their mail. French knights mentioned that they would not do it, because it would exhaust them too much. At most, fighters during that time wore a thin arming jacket below the mail, to protect theit clothes from the mail (and potentially grease ans oil used for rust prevention).
what also should be mentioned is the cost of maille, a full suit of maille is really expensive so it wouldn't be used by most reenactors and most definitely not by people just getting into reenactment
I come across many effigies with mail, many Effigies here in Essex Churches are 14th century, 3 in one church alone, I have made videos,,for example Danbury, I have come across 12th century graves actually used for growing flowers, the other day in Fryerning Essex sitting in the South Porch I looked down my feet were on a 12th century Knights Hospilalier's coffin stone, I've seen so many brass effigies of Knights where I explore its fascinating absolutely fascinating
In addition to effigies there is some fantastic artwork from Northern Italy in manuscripts that displays the components of a full man at arm's panoply. BNF Français 343 Queste del Saint Graal / Tristan de Léonois | is the name
Hi, I dont know if you already answered this questions, I couldn't find the answer. What is the thickness (and hardness) of various plate elements of your armor?
This is a really really beautiful armor but I have a little question. Was it normal to wear his mailcoiv over the plate armor or his padded surcot or is this more something a knight could do as he wants? I questioning this for myself now for a long time 🤔
Yes both are normal he would wear his mail coif over the plate to protect his neck. The surcoat would still be in fashion until around 1420s when they started to wear just the armor.