I am looking for any on-line pictures showing early "lace-on" chausses - the kind that is a strip of maille on the front of the leg laced across the back of the leg.

I will be offering these soon and I need some good images to base them on. Thanks!

Steven Sheldon

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"Knight mounting his horse", Album of Villard de Honnecourt, French, mid 13th century.

It shows the knight with his coif thrown back, while wearing a linen coif underneath. His right foot is in the stirrup, raising his surcoat to reveal his laced chausses.

Map of Jerusalem, circa 1170. (The Hague, Koninklijke Bibliothek, MS 69).

This shows a Templar Knight, charging with pennanted lance lowered, piercing an "infidel". On the Templar's legs are a pair of laced chausses. His striken "infidel" opponent also wears laced chausses.

I'll dig up more later. I'll get them scanned and e-mailed tomorrow night or Friday.

Hope this helps. If you like, I can scan the images, and send them to you.

[ 04-11-2002: Message edited by: Templar Bob ]

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If you could scan those images, that would be great! maillemaker@forth-armoury.com

Thanks!

Steve

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Pictoral tile of Richard I Lionheart,, from Chertsey Abbey (British Museum, London).

"Saladin seizes the True Cross", from Matthew Paris' Chronica Majora (Corpus Christi College, Cambridge, MS 16, Pg. 279). Note the knight getting the True Cross taken from him...and being practically yanked backwards from the saddle.
Chronica Majora

[ 04-11-2002: Message edited by: Templar Bob ]

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