How a Medieval KNIGHT wears their ARMOUR: New armour put on and tested 

Apologies for the blank 5 minutes at the end of the video. I have no idea why that is there!!

What is your opinion of Maximilian armor, and could I rock it with a Teutonic winged greathelm?

Armour should be tight, especially the codpiece 😊

@@seriousmaran9414I dunno - there may be occasions, where you might prefer a little extra “room”… 🤔😁

@@peterchristiansen9695 NOOOO! Make them scream! 😈

We call them teenagers now.

More sparring practice

@@PROVOCATEURSK I hear falchions are quite effective against them, though I haven't tried it myself.

Well you gotta pay for the armor somehow.

You call them bandits, we call them self delivered loot containers.

True story. Squires were definitely an important integral part of being a Knight. It would be impossible to get all that on properly by yourself.

@@mattjack3983 Yeah, and knights were definitely an important part of being a squire. It would be impossible to get all that on properly by yourself.

@@mattjack3983 Squires are handy for a knight, but the idea that they are a necessity for wearing armor is silly. Men-at-arms and mercenary heavy cavalry often didn't have squires, but they helped each other don their armor and often had completely comparable protection to their noble counterparts. Rich Italian mercenaries would have likely had better armor than poorer nobles at their heyday in the 14th-15th century. Medieval armies had the curious trait of consisting of more than one soldier. Point being, if there was stuff to be done that could not be done alone, it wasn't altogether impossible to find a mate to assist.

Just visited an old danish church from somwhere around year 1100-1200. They had old scripts with information of different warriors and knights. It stated their height, favorite weapon and how many squires they had under them. One guy had 8 squires under him - favorite weapon? Two handed mace, with an axe as a backup (34cm)

He must be preparing to campaign against Robert Bruce. 😁🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

@@SMac86as he jumps and frolics around, unbeknownst to his fate

@@SMac86after jumping back in time a 100 years lol

Maybe, just as a nod, you can do a bout with Matt using a mace and you using a falchion?

I think that armor might be a bit fancy for it to be getting bashed around with metal weapons. He might want to get one specific for armored fighting

I don't think I can make it this year, but in any case the armour is not quite ready yet as the helmet needs some alterations unfortunately. But I am sure it will happen eventually :-)

@@scholagladiatoria that sounds okay to me. If necessary, I can also lend you a closed helmet, I have two forged by myself for my stile of harness fencing, but I have every confidence that you can manage it with your great baskinet and the paldrones until we finally meet.

I love how in this day and age, men are challenging one another to a gentlemanly duel over the internet.

then get a 3d scanner and scan it so we can 3d print a Matt effigy

I second this

That's dumb

Not everyone wars the same armor, or even the same "amount" of armor. How would this be fair?

@@mementomori4972 Sure. But so what? It'd be fun. Fairness isn't the point.

@@mattjack3983 Yes. Yet it'd be fun.

@5:06 "You need someone to go down there and FIDDLE AROUND... hoiking something up..."

2:42 "There is gonna be some experimentation going on here, so we're gonna do--essentially, we're gonna step outside in the garden. We're gonna put stuff on, and ah, speed it up so you don't have to sit through the whole thing at kinda real-time speed."

20:21 "For those of you are curious, we won't show the 'getting off,' so to speak..."

And not the slight implication of a double entendre; which would have been normal, dare I say standard, for Matt. He was being very well behaved in the presence of his squire.

He's got more dangling down there than even Big Mike.

I like both. I like this one more

I would be scared of messing up the mirror polish.

Yeah. I like this one but the black armor looked cooler to me.

He did. Look up fantasy realistic on the channel.

@@jamespuckett9753 My bad and thanks for pointing me the right way! Cheers!

I'm pretty sure that many do. Normally it halves the time to put on the armor.

Henry manages to put full plate armour on all by himself in Kingdom Come Deliverance! Unless Mutt is helping him with his vambraces and spaulders. I agree though, this is why you always need companions in Medieval/Fantasy video games.

@@hishamg Over realism = bad. Fun realism, especially when it leads to more character interaction and relationships = very good.

I trapped myself in my gambeson once 😂 armor is dangerous (when I got it I obviously had to try it on. It's a thick stand alone (literally) armor, I got into it quite easily as it just slips on like a sweatshirt. But because it's stiff like a board, I struggled to get it off again. In fact I don't understand how I did it without cutting it open !D)

Yes I agree.

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@@scholagladiatoria Thank you kindly :)

Yes, it should have been black&white and only add color at the end for the full armor

Needed the Benny Hill theme music.

i play gurps so i know. it's very very expensive, but it's the best armour you can get.

With regards to 2, most of the straps are covered, and the ones that aren't are not entirely critical, the obvious ones hold the visor of the bascinet down, but it will tend to stay down on its own, and hold the placard (the plate that covers the stomach) to the breastplate, but it is also held on with straps on the side or around the back, which would still hold it in place if the top strap was cut, a gap between the placard and breastplate would open, but it is really hard to thrust downward from above the placard to take advantage, it would hinder your arm movement but still offer most of the same protection. That being said, some later armors, particulary German styles, saw that potential issue and used rivets instead.

@@coopercummings8370 cheers

You can lift up the plate skirt and pull your breeches down in armour, you might have to take your gauntlets off and undo the lacing on the top of the leg harness and hosen though But after that you would be able to do whatever you need to do lol And everything you’re removing is stuff you can put back on yourself anyway

May those who go to don armour tomorrow remember to go before they don armour tomorrow.