Subject: chevalier 'horseman' knight
Culture: late medieval French
Setting: Lancastrian war / later Hundred Years War, France early-mid 15thc
Object: armure armor
Roman Museum *
* Metropolitan Museum of Art > Stone Gallery of Arms and Armor
"Visored Bascinet Steel Western European, about 1375-1400
The visored bascinet served as the standard knightly helmet worn throughout Europe from about 1300 to about 1420.
The pierced studs along the rim held the aventail (a defense of mail covering the lower face, neck, and shoulders)." ...
"Bascinet Steel Possibly French, about 1400-1425 This helmet is said to have been worn in battle by Joan of Arc (1412-1431)
and to have been given by her to the church of Saint Pierre du Martroi at Orléans, where it hung over the main altar.
Although the legend is probably untrue, the helmet does appear to have been damaged in battle." ...
Shreef Enterprises *
