Armour Listing Project - Besagews

[Padrig]

This is to ask your help on a project. A list of armour pieces with when they were first introduced and when they were abandoned as well as the regions where they were used. I will post regularly a piece at a time and compile the results hopefully into something useful. When I have enough done, I will post preliminary results on my website so people can go check if they have something to add. When it is all done, we can put it here on the archive. Thanks for the help, comments, criticism, etc…

Let’s start with something small, Besagews

Pat


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[Richard de Scolay]

Hello Padrig,

Are you by chance familiar with the Arms & Armour Glossary at Chronique? It has a lot of information on the various pieces of armor including dates of popularity. I'm not sure how accurate it is, but I'd imagine it's not far off given the reputation of the Chronique website.

Here's the entry on Besagews:

http://www.chronique.com/Library/Glossaries/glossary-AA/arms_b.htm

Besagews: Small round "shields" that were laced to the mail at the shoulder to defend the armpit. Developed as augmentation to mail defenses in the late 13th century, they faded in popularity during the first half of the 14th century, disappearing completely by 1350 as spaulders began to serve the same purpose while at the same time defending the shoulder joint itself. During the latter half of the 15th century they made a comeback, added occasionally to tourney garnitures during the early 16th century.

[Padrig]

Richard, thanks for the link. I think I had it on my laptop before the motherboard went up in flames. (By the way your arming coat looks really good!)

To the score of people who seem to want to help, I forgot to ask for references to the dates you will provide.

Thanks,

Pat

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