The Armour Archive

Bertus Brokamp

I've translated this text a few years ago and been meaning to turn it into an article, maybe for Waffen & Kostumkunde. But sadly I have not gotten round to fleshing it further out yet.

Bertus Brokamp

I remember reading an entry in the late 14th century purchase accounts of the city of Deventer, where pear is mentioned. Of course now I can't find it. -edit- I found it. It was in the 1361-1362 purchase accounts of lord Jan van Blois. Jan is preparing for a campaign and has one of his servants and ...

Bertus Brokamp

Am I right that in the late medieval/early modern European crossbows, the only parts which really work better in iron are the trigger and maybe the stirrup? So we would not expect a lot of archaeological finds, but there are some deep muddy bogs in the Low Countries and Lithuania/Poland. Apparantly...

Bertus Brokamp

It must be, I have only been to that museum once and those are the only crossbows I shot there. The Biggest I know of is one Bertus got me photos of and it from the Bayerisches Armeemuseum in Ingorstadt, and it must have been off the top of my head about 5.5-6 feet across for a prod, easily 2 times ...

Bertus Brokamp

I like this book on horn crossbows: 'Die Hornbogenarmbrust: Geschichte und Technik' by Holger Richter https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=bGqxqn4b_SMC&dq Since we are moving away from the late 15th century ... The books by Joseph Alm (1947, even if the English translation came out in 1994) and by Eg...

Bertus Brokamp

Amen!

Bertus Brokamp

Thanks John!

Bertus Brokamp

Every time i read that entry for Jan van Blois' buckled jack, i think of the drawing of that 1361 Rappoltsweiler (now Ribeauville) effigy that shows the same. To my knowledge these are the only two sources for this practice. Both German, lower Rhine & middle Rhine area, and the same period. A tempo...

Bertus Brokamp

Every time i read that entry for Jan van Blois' buckled jack, i think of the drawing of that 1361 Rappoltsweiler (now Ribeauville) effigy that shows the same. To my knowledge these are the only two sources for this practice. Both German, lower Rhine & middle Rhine area, and the same period. A tempor...

Bertus Brokamp

Henrik,

I wrote a blogpost on the topic last year. Though my focus is mainly on 1360-70, it may still be of some use to you.

http://deventerburgerscap.blogspot.nl/2 ... ipoun.html

Bertus Brokamp

I am not sure if it is of any use, but in the c. 1360 lawbook of Geseke (a town in Westphalia) a 'spankrampe' (tension clamp?) is mentioned as one of the essential tools of a smithy.

I wrote the full list down here:
http://deventerburgerscap.blogspot.co.u ... rwede.html

Bertus Brokamp

Here's a detail of the Ghent Altarpiece of 1432 on which a jack/jupon is shown that more closely resembles the Lübeck and Stendal specimens.

Bertus Brokamp

No saddles, no stirrups, no leg armor, baskets for helms, short lances with weird heads, and everyone riding dinky little mares. I suppose this is all because no one had yet thought of donkey basketball, but they felt they needed a half time show. Whatever this is, I want to see it reintroduced! Ma...

Bertus Brokamp

That page is from the book 'Kleidung & Waffen der Spätgotik - 1370-1420' by Ulrich Lehnart. It is nr. 3 of a 4 volume series.

Bertus Brokamp

If you are into art there is the Hamburger Kunsthalle, which also has late medieval stuff like the Grabower Altar. http://www.hamburger-kunsthalle.de/ http://www.pbslearningmedia.org/resource/xkh145256/high-altar-of-st-peters-in-hamburg-the-ger-xkh145256/ Edit: I'm probably a day too late since you ...

Bertus Brokamp

Thanks Wade!

Bertus Brokamp

So, any interest in actual measurements from one? Wade Wade, I'm not sure when I would use these measurements, but at some point I hope to. It is a shame there is (seems?) almost no detailed info out there on the actual measurements of pikes, or their development. I guess they are not sexy enough w...

Bertus Brokamp

Bertus, I could try one day, but I am busy with personal issues, work, and my tailoring project right now. An Austrian reenactment site gives the full citation as Hans Müller-Hickler, "Studien über den langen Spieß," Zeitschrift für historische Waffenkunde 4 (1906/08) pages 295 and following. Have ...

Bertus Brokamp

Ha I totally missed out on this conversation, what with you guys reviewing my blog posts. You have my thanks for being critical. :-) Yes the main sources for the pike length are the ones from Turin, Bremen and the Italian wallpainting. Frustratingly the source for the Turin one is not mentioned in t...

Bertus Brokamp

That's what we have been trying to do in our trainings. But we are all new to this real pike stuff. I guess a group like this could give an answer based on more experience: http://www.bund-oberschwaebischer-landsknechte.eu/ Sadly München is a bit too far a drive for us in the Netherlands, so we have...

Bertus Brokamp

It is an interesting observation.

Bertus Brokamp

Google books only lets me see the title of the book, which is "Coutumes de la ville de Malines". And Malines is the French name for the Flemish town of Mechelen. But apparantly the author / compiler decided to put something in there about Hainault as well. Oh and silly nitpicking me: The Bavarians o...

Bertus Brokamp

I don't know if you care about this extra detail... The person who bought the pikes and resold them was Greg Walter who runs http://www.antiqueweaponstore.com/ I have 6 of them in my collection. Somewhere I also have one separate head. The pikes he had were all around 15' in length with a little va...

Bertus Brokamp

Excellently documented, as is usual for you. ;) I must confess the use of pike formations in the 13th and early 14th centuries still seems somewhat surprising to me. I am also surprised by how quickly the pike shafts enlarge after the head. It would seem that this would limit penetration to 4-6", 1...

Bertus Brokamp

I thought perhaps this might be of interest to some of you folk. With my c. 1370 living history group Deventer Burgerscap we will be attending this years Battle of Wisby reenactment in early August. http://www.medeltidsveckan.se/battle-of-wisby Our project for this event is to portray a North German...

Bertus Brokamp

In Drei Schnittbücher p. 132 paltrock (< German Rock "gown" ... unless that is a folk-etymology of a word with a different French root?) is defined as "a pleated gown, with a high neck which has loops or pickadils set into the collar." No sources or examples of usage are given. The Dutch/German roc...

Bertus Brokamp

Let's hope for him the pair of plates still fit him when finished, and sent from Germany/Lombardy.

Bertus Brokamp

Or does it roughly say?

'3 ells of linnen to make a pattern for a doublet, which will be send to Lombardy to help make a pair of plates for my lord'
(Pareille means similar, so I would say the pair of plates is made similar to, in the same shape, as the doubletpattern)

That would still be cool info.

Bertus Brokamp

All the info I have is what I can find with google: https://nytomgammelt.wordpress.com/2013/04/17/panserhandsken/ http://denstoredanske.dk/@api/deki/files/84674/=dh-5-139.jpg https://nytomgammelt.files.wordpress.com/2013/04/panserhandske35-e1366188568699.jpg http://www.thistedmuseum.dk/Museet/Nyt_om...

Bertus Brokamp

Excellent

Bertus Brokamp

As I look through his list and Goll's photos I realize just how few complete fingers and thumbs from 14th century gauntlets survive. I suppose that we have the Wisby gauntlets as examples of fingers of narrow lames, and the Rippon and Canterbury and Allen fingers as examples of construction with a ...

Bertus Brokamp

- I deleted the pic, because I believe it was not from the 14th century. -

Bertus Brokamp

For the record, he was not only count of Hainaut but also of the counties of Zeeland and Holland. His mother relinquished power over Zeeland and Holland to him in 1354. She died in 1356 so Hainaut also became his. William went mad and from 1358 his brother Albrecht (duke of Bavaria-Straubing) ruled ...

Bertus Brokamp

The textile museum in Lyon might be closing down. This is the museum where amongst others also the pourpoint of Charles de Blois (+1364) is kept. I say, sign the petition and help to prevent this loss. https://www.change.org/p/madame-fleur-pellerin-3-rue-de-valois-non-%C3%A0-la-fermeture-du-mus%C3%A...

Bertus Brokamp

Excellent

Re: Challenge of Pierre Touremine to Robert de Beaumanoire, 1386

Re: Arbalest à Tillolles

Re: Arbalest à Tillolles

Re: Arbalest à Tillolles

Re: Arbalest à Tillolles

Re: Is there a treatise on waistlines?

Re: Backplates before 1410?

Re: Backplates before 1410?

Re: Backplates before 1410?

Re: What was the timeframe of the short-sleeved Jupon?

Re: Clamping tools in armourers workshop first mentions?

Re: Padded Jack "Zebra" style, Lubeck Jack - other examples?

Re: image search help - sausages on crest

Re: Is this gambeson typology real?

Re: museums in Hamburg

Re: Pikes & drum in the 14th century

Re: Pikes & drum in the 14th century

Re: I wanna be a 14TH CENTURY SCOT

Re: I wanna be a 14TH CENTURY SCOT

Re: Pikes & drum in the 14th century

Re: Pikes & drum in the 14th century

Re: Document: 1335 Hainaut Ordinance

Re: Pikes & drum in the 14th century

Re: Pikes & drum in the 14th century

Pikes & drum in the 14th century

Re: Paltocks

Re: Reinforced Pourpoint

Re: Reinforced Pourpoint

Re: 14th Century Gauntlet Knuckle plate find

Re: 14th Century Gauntlet Knuckle plate find

Re: 14th Century Gauntlet Knuckle plate find

Re: Late 14th C hourglass? / Galleron's grave marker

Re: Document: 1357 Count of Hainaut

Prevent closure of the museum, sign the petition

Re: Comfortable and Flexible, suspending your legs