To the original question: the image of Chaucer's Squire from the Ellesmere edition jumps to my mind. It is also in the right timeframe. Here is but one of the pages that show it: http://www.virtue.to/articles/bells.html

Thank you for the input.

Armor will probably mostly be used on horseback, if I can follow through on my plan of learning to joust...
But also probably some unmounted fighting, maybe some poleaxe stuff.

What options for chemical blueing are there, that may be viable options?

Hi, my VERY first post here. I am in the process of comissioning my first complete harness, first half of 15th century, german style. By a very able young Ukrainian smith. Now, my original plan was having a heat blued treatment done, I really like the blue/black appearance, as seen for instance here...