Last one has been decided to be a Halberd, but I can't really compare the other two to actual weapons. Any help would be greatly appreciated!
What i mean is, is there any thing proving that plate sleeves with brigandine (lamellar?) shoulders?
My attempt (so far) to recreate a set of armor that would have been worn by the Burgundian commander of Holland at the siege of Neuss (1474-1475), nicknamed 'Jan metten witten Valck' (John with the white falcon).
Based on a few armor examples from the Berner Schilling using budget kit, though i'm very happy with it! It's fully functional and I use it for harnischfechten and historical demonstrations :)
I plan on adding helmet decoration and I still need to find a way to attach the cross of st. andrew to the breastplate, any ideas?
The cup was made for the French royal family at the end of the 14th century, and later belonged to several English monarchs before spending nearly 300 years in Spain. It has been in the British Museum since 1892. Much the most prominent decoration on the cup is the cycle of scenes from the life of Saint Agnes.
This cup was explicitly mentioned in the 1901 short story A Jubilee Present by E. W. Hornung, where A. J. Raffles, a gentleman thief steals it, keeps it for a while and then sends it to Queen Victoria as an anonymous Jubilee present.
Among the horrors our ancestors visited upon the dead, gibbeting is a highly specific one, although by no means unique in its brutality. Someone who came to a bad end might find their head plunged on the end of a spike. After a horribly protracted execution, the body of a traitor could be divvied up and scattered across the land to decorate the walls of treasonous towns. (That rebellion doesn’t seem like such a great idea, now, right?) Gibbeting punished criminals even in death and warned the living to toe the line.
I was thinking of displaying it using nails but i kind of want the handle at an angle and I don’t think i’d be able to do that with nails
Wedding bells are in the air again, as Richard II negotiates a new union... With the six-year-old daughter of the King of France...
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Hello, Imagine a guy, Pierre de Bourbon, Prince of Carency and Duke of Bourbon—the son of Catherine de Vendôme and Jean de Bourbon-Carency. He had an illegitimate daughter named Jeanne or Catherine (depending on the source) who married Bertrand de Sallemard.
My question is the following, who could be her mother ? (like What could be her status, class, etc…)
The Battle of the Horns of Hattin was a significant battle that broke the field army of the Kingdom of Jerusalem. Following the death of King Baldwin IV, Guy of Lusignan was crowned king. Guy was highly unpopular and was considered to have poor leadership skills. This would prove to be a deadly combination in an already strained situation for the Crusaders.
When Saladin attacked Tiberias, Guy abandoned his stable position at Sepphoris and marched his army to relieve the city. The march was a gruesome ordeal for the Crusader army. Without access to water and under the harsh sun, the Crusaders became dehydrated, demoralized, and weak.
Saladin did not rush into battle. Instead, he waited for the Crusaders to exhaust themselves, constantly harassing them with hit-and-run tactics. The Crusaders eventually halted near the Horns of Hattin, which provided a good terrain advantage but lacked the water they desperately needed.
Under constant harassment from Saladin's mounted archers, the Crusaders attempted to break through but failed, as the main bulk of the army remained trapped. Here, they would make their last stand as the remaining Crusader forces lost cohesion and surrendered. Guy was captured along with several other high-ranking nobles.
The significance of this loss was catastrophic for the Crusaders. With the main army destroyed, the Crusader states and their cities were left vulnerable. Jerusalem would eventually fall to Saladin as panic spread across the Crusader states, prompting the Third Crusade. The relic known as the True Cross was also captured by Saladin, depriving the Crusaders of an object of immense religious and psychological value.
The Battle of Hattin is a lesson in the importance of logistics and the availability of resources to an army. The defeat can largely be attributed to poor decision-making on the part of the Crusader leadership. For Saladin, it was a decisive victory and his greatest military triumph, opening the path to the conquest of Jerusalem.
On 13–14 June 1381, during the Peasants’ Revolt, a mob burned down the Savoy Palace, the London residence of John of Gaunt, the most powerful man in England. They stole a fortune, burned a second building at Clerkenwell, then dragged the Archbishop of Canterbury and the royal Treasurer out of the Tower of London and had them beheaded.
The jury indictment for this survives today at the National Archives (KB 27/482), and it doesn’t name a mob leader you’d expect. It names Joanna Ferrour, a woman from Rochester, Kent, as the “chief perpetrator and leader” of the whole sequence. Her husband is only mentioned as an identifier (“wife of John Ferrour”). He’s not even listed as an accused participant in this particular roll.
She was arrested and tried. The jury found her not guilty. She walked free on the surety of four men who vouched for her.
A second, separate indictment (KB 27/485) does name her husband John as a co-accused in the same events. Why two different juries produced two different versions of who led what is genuinely unresolved. It could be different stages of process, or overlapping local accusations. Nobody currently knows.
There’s one more thread that never quite resolves. In 1400, a “John Ferrour of Southwark” was pardoned by King Henry IV specifically for saving Henry’s life during that same attack on the Tower in 1381, when Henry was a teenager sheltering inside. Whether that’s the same John Ferrour from Rochester is impossible to prove from the surviving record, but the coincidences (the alias, the Southwark connection, the unusually long delay before Rochester-John was finally cleared) are hard to ignore.
Full writeup with the actual indictment photograph, translation, and sourcing: https://theblackarchiveresearch.com/the-woman-accused-of-burning-the-savoy/
(Evidence tiers used throughout: what’s PROVEN by the indictment itself vs. what’s only POSSIBLE on the Bolingbroke connection. Happy to go through the sourcing in comments.)
Assuming this quality has to be junk this seems too good to be true. I want to buy a set of armor - what should I avoid/know what to look out for while buying to ensure high quality?