History of Armour 1100-1700 by Paul F Walker

Author:Paul F Walker [Paul F. Walker]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781847975157
Publisher: Crowood
Published: 2013-04-13T04:00:00+00:00

The hinge of the vambrace can be seen in this shot of Sir Thomas Stanley.

Seventeenth-century pauldron of Vice-Admiral Sir Richard Leveson 1570–1603 in the Collegiate Church of St Peters, Wolverhampton.

The joint between vambrace and rerebrace showing the articulation lames.

The pauldron, made up from four plates.

Chapter 7

Gauntlets

Early Plate

In the previous chapter, we have seen how the mail mitten or glove connected to the sleeves of the mail coat protected the hand up until the fourteenth century, when it was superseded by the plate gauntlet.

Early plate hand-protection is seen at the end of the thirteenth century, with simple iron plates being riveted or stitched to a leather mitten, in the same manner as the coat of plates. These types of gauntlet were really just plate versions of the mail mitten, and variations of this form were developed up to the mid-fourteenth century, when smaller plates were used to protect the fingers. Horizontal plates cover the back of the hand and a flared cuff, with vertically riveted rectangular plates, protected the wrist.

The thirteenth-century knight from St Andrew’s Church, Dacre in Cumbria displays mitten gauntlets.

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