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This illustration shows the typical opponent of the English bowmen in France in the late fourteenth and early fifteenth centuries. This man is bravely facing the feathered death so amply provided by the English bowmen.
The Knight, mounted on his heraldically barded destrier is well armed in contemporary fashion. His helmet is a visored bascinet with a hanging mail aventail. On his body he wears a padded ' jupon ' based on an example dated around 1380 and worn by Charles VI of France which is still preserved in Chartres. Beneath the jupon would be extra defences of mail or plate. He wears full plate defences on his legs and steel gauntlets. he is armed with spear, sword and mace and would bear a dagger hanging from the enamelled belt worn around his hips.
The heraldry shown is conjectural and does not represent any particular family but rather attempts to typify those nobles of
France who tried to stem the English tied and often died trying.
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