Long time no fluted armour

Medieval winter hunt❄

Collaborative drawing with @eol4242.bsky.social

French knight, last third 15th c.
(BnF, MSs Fr 24380; Fr 22547)

Merci :))

Flemish paviser, last third 15th c.
(BnF, MS Fr 2799)

Knight errant, 15th c. France

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Dragon Slayer

Catalan gentleman, 1395 (inspired by an altarpiece of the Serra workshop in Paris MAD)

1400 Northern Germans, from the "Chapelle Cardon" portable altarpiece

Gathering little friends

Collaborative scene by @eol4242.bsky.social @eggman and me

French knight, 1460s

Based on a statue of Dunois (presumably) as a military saint, from Châteaudun (down below)

Little Big Knight

Third quarter 14th century gentleman. Loosely inspired by the effigy of Charles II d'Alençon at St Denis.

Survivors killer

Culveriner
France, Flanders or England, late 15th

Drawing I made with my valentine @eol4242.bsky.social for Valentine’s Day 💗🌹 ✨

Love is beautiful 🤍

Follow-up of the last: franc archer ("franc arbalétrier" [crossbowman] in this case) in gear, from a rich or generous commune, usually affording brigandines.

Only missing is the hoqueton or livery jacket that would cover the brigandine and display the arms of the company.

Franc archer undressed. Armed, he would put on a brigandine, brigandine guardbraces (shoulder armour), the other elbow guard, and a sallet.

Then of course the belt for dagger and sword; and the belt for arrow/bolt case, or gauntlets if he is a vougier or pikeman.

The same but painted

Not in a hurry to

Vougier, late 15th

In practice, they could commonly have a maille gorget and some plate elbows. As infantry legs were unarmoured.

The memorandum wanted jack over supposedly-less-convenient brigandines. That part of the reform didn't hit everywhere, probably following a form of lobbying from communal armourers.

Little doodle of a bowman franc-archer with the ~1466 memorandum specifications.

Asides from the accurately-described jack, of 25 to 30 layers and an optional deerskin; these guys carried bow and arrows in their bag, dagger, a short sword and an optional buckler. Their sallet was to be visorless.

to anything they want, as long as you have a strap or a lace you can attach it somewhere.

The knight and his page