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Author Topic: mail in teh 15th century Wolf Member Member # 375 posted 08-07-2003 09:32 PM                   what was the course of mail during the 15th century. i know it was used for aventails, skirts and voiders. but would people be wearing mail just as they did in previous centuries? Love to see some examples or sources showing say a footsoldier wereing just a bynrie or something. (got this idea from the new Mail Journal -------------------- Chuck Russell Registered: Oct 2002  |  IP: Logged Fire Stryker Admin & Advocatus Diaboli Member # 2 posted 08-08-2003 06:10 PM                   Hi Wulfe, Well, you know the partial answer as you have read the article, but I'd like to see someone else bite. All I'll say is that there is evidence in artwork for haubegeons being worn in conjunction with padded jacks, which would make a formidable defence where the armour covered. There is also artwork depicting some soldiers seemingly wearing a haubegeon as their principal defence. -------------------- ad finem fidelis Registered: May 2000  |  IP: Logged Jeff Johnson Member Member # 22 posted 08-09-2003 12:59 AM                   Chuck, You seem to see most of the maille in the artwork as mixed in with the other armor types, like under brigs and jacks and as voiders for plate. Is that the only place? Was it used bare and uncovered? Dunno. -------------------- Geoffrey Bourrette Man At Arms Registered: May 2000  |  IP: Logged Wolf Member Member # 375 posted 08-10-2003 12:49 PM                   just find it odd that the main source of armour for hundreds of years just disapears like yesterdays fashion. -------------------- Chuck Russell Registered: Oct 2002  |  IP: Logged Ron M Member Member # 39 posted 08-10-2003 10:32 PM                   It seems that Mail shirts were a requirement(worn under a Breastplate) for Handgunners around the time that Charles the bold set about the formation of his Companies in 1471.I also remember reading of Mail shirts in other inventories as well. -------------------- Ron Moen Registered: Jul 2000  |  IP: Logged Jeff Johnson Member Member # 22 posted 08-11-2003 10:58 AM                   I don't think it disappeared at all, it was just covered up. -------------------- Geoffrey Bourrette Man At Arms Registered: May 2000  |  IP: Logged

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