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Source: https://books.google.com/books?id=cksGA ... ns&f=false

1333, Jean II de Chalon, Count of Auxerre, 1292-1361.
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Ce sont les parties du harnais monseigneur, qui demorèrent en la garderobbe monseignour d'Orgelet, dont Perrin Grivel a la clef, après ce que Guyonnet de la Chambre s'en fut parti, le samedi xx jour de novembre l'an MCCC et XXXIII.
These are the parts of my lord's harness, which remain in the wardrobe of the Lord of Orgelet, of which Perrin Grivel has the key, according to what Guyonnet of the House set out with, Saturday the 20th day of November in the year 1333.

Premièrement. Du harnais de jostes.
To begin. The harness for the Joust.

Troiz harnais de jambes touz entiers et uns cuissoz par dessus et ii heaumes.
Three leg harnesses, all complete, and one additional pair of cuisses, and 2 helms.
Item une pissière, ii flancaux et ....lape....
Item, one pissière, 2 flanchards, and ??? (The pissière also appears with horse equipment in Charles VI 1420-1 inventory.)
Item une jaretières d'argent.
Item, a silver garter.
Item ii plates et ii baynnères et iiii pe(nnon)s.
Item, 2 plates, 2 banners, and 4 pennons.
Item, iiii escuz et i gantier d'acier.
Item, 4 shields, and 1 steel gauntlet.
Item v mains de fer et ii garde-braz et ii poingnez de fer.
Item, 5 manifers, 2 gardbraces, and 2 iron poingnez. (poignards, prickers- spurs or thrusting daggers?)
Item i harnais tout entier de brodeure.
One complete, emboidered harness.
Item iiii roelles avant main et viii goucez et iii baiseux.
Item, 4 fore-hand roundels, 8 goucez, and 3 baiseux. (goucez - possibly main gauches, i.e. left-hand gauntlets)
Item xxiiii rochez et iii selles à joster.
Item, 12 rocks(?) and 3 saddles for the joust. (Charles VI also has rochès for the joust.)
Item trois paires de paremenz de bature de l'ordre Meleadus, touz garnis et trois bennières de la dicte ordre.
Item, three pairs of facings of bature of the Order of Meliadus, all garnished, and three banners of the said Order. (Banners of bature also appear in the 1357 Inventory of the Count of Hainaut, and it may mean battered,shredded, or dagged. I have been unable to find any information on the Order of Meliadus.)
Item cropière, picière, benière et bracière des armes de Chalon.
Item, a crupper, chest piece, benière, and bracière, with the arms of Chalon.
Item iiii goucez à joster.
Item, 4 goucez for the joust. (see above)

Item. Du harnais de guerre.
Item. The harness of war.

Premièrement unes grèves et ung cuissoz.
To begin, a pair of greaves and a pair of cuisses.
Item iii heaumes et trois bacinez.
Item, 3 helms and three bascinets.
Item ii paire de braceux d'acier et i de cuir.
Item, 2 pair of bracers of steel and 1 of leather.
Item deux paire de ganz de fer.
Item, two pairs of iron gauntlets.
Item deux cottes à armer de brodeure et une couverture de cheval de veluel.
Item, two embroidered coats of arms and one horse trapper of velvet.
Item vi bennières et ii penonceaux de Chalon et i guazigan et i corcet de serge besanté.
Item, 6 banners and 2 pennoncels of Chalon, and 1 guazigan(?) and 1 corset of bezanted serge (silk twill).
Item uns espérons dorez et v chanfrains et quatre escuz.
Item, a pair of gold spurs, 5 chanfrons, and 4 shields.
Item iii harnais de cheval de gambeseure.
Item, 3 gamboissed horse armors.
Item iiii paires de plates et une auquetonière de fer.
Item, 4 pairs of plates, and one aketoner of iron. (An aketon with iron plated sleeves.)
Item troiz glissières.
Item three slides(?). (The modern glissière can mean a slide, chute, or zipper.)
Item iiii gorgières pendanz et iiii coleretes.
Item, 4 hanging gorgets and 4 collars.
Item iii paires de panz et de manches et iiii paires de musequins.
Item, 3 pairs of paunces and sleeves, and 4 pairs of musekins.
Item ii paires de chauçons et i hauberjon.
Item, 2 pairs of chaussons, and 1 haubergeon.
Item unes couvertes de jazerant pour cheval.
Item, one jazerant horse armor.
Item v espées garnies d argent et dix autres espées et iii cousteaux.
Item, 5 swords garnished with silver, and ten other swords and 3 coustille daggers.
Item une mace d'acier et i tablier de cypris et trois chapeaux et une targete.
Item, one steel mace, one Cypriot apron, three hats, and one target.
Item v selles, que de guerre que autres petites, et vi arbalestes.
Item, 5 saddles, some of war and others small, and 6 crossbows.
Item v ars et une petite espingalle.
Item, 5 bows and a small springald.
Item ii lances de guerre et ung fer de glayve.
Item, 2 war lances and an iron glaive head.
Item ii paires de trailliz.
Item, 2 pairs of trailliz. (treillis = lattice?)
Item xix pièces, que frains que brides.
Item 19 pieces, that are bits and bridles.

Item. Du harnais de tornoy.
Item. The Harness for Tourney.

Premièrement ii quamaix à tornoyer.
To begin, 2 quamaix for the tournament.
Item iii paires de manches et uns chauçons et iii paires de panz.
Item, 3 pairs of sleeves, a pair of chaussons, and 3 pairs of paunces. (tournament mail)
Item une gorgière et une pièce.
Item, a gorget and a piece of mail.
Item iiii selles et iiii cuyriées.
Item, 4 saddles and cuirasses. (leather armor)
Item ii espaulières et uns guynebaux.
Item, 2 espaliers and a guynebaux.
Item unz cuissoz et ii hanchières.
Item, a pair of cuisses and 2 hanchières. (gaiters?, coverings for the horse's haunches?)
Item ii glissières et uns gaingnepains.
Item, 2 guard-rails and a pair of "bread-winner" gauntlets. (In the inventory of Charles VI the gagné-pain are specified as a type of gauntlet.)
Item i heaume, i bacinet et deux frains.
Item, 1 helm, 1 bascinet, and two bits.
Item xii vareingles garnies et quatre pièces neuves de fiz de vareingles longues.
Item, 12 garnished vareingles, and 4 newly made pieces of long vareingles. (The 1266 Count of Nevers inventory also contains varengles, though to be some sort of horse strap.)
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Perhaps espérons are spurs, as in italian they are called speroni.
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Yes, indeed. French éperons. Sometimes, I'm not thinking as clearly as I should when it's late in my day. :(
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Item xix pièces, que frains que brides.
Item 19 pieces, that are ash shafts and bridles.
I think that frains are likely to be bits.

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Thanks, again - freins Perhaps I should spend a few more hours before starting this again, or I can let you guys have a good go at it. :)

The horse parts always cause me more difficulty than the armor.

EDIT: I also went back and corrected similar inventory entries in 1420 Charles VI and 1266 Count of Nevers.
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One of the coolest things about all of the early-14th century lists you've come up with is the diverse array of armament owned by individuals, suggesting little rhyme or reason behind what components fit together. Apparently, coming out of the era of mail into composite harnesses, the eclectic presentations suggested by art and effigies can be readily supported by the documentary evidence!

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I'm rather surprised to find early, specialized, jousting armor such as manifers and gardebraces.
Item v mains de fer et ii garde-braz et ii poingnez de fer.
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Wow, thanks Ernst! Those are the three kinds of fighting which the Modus Armandi Milites recognizes! (Tournament, joust, war).

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And How did they distinguish the mail used for war...

Item iii paires de panz et de manches et iiii paires de musequins.
Item, 3 pairs of paunces and sleeves, and 4 pairs of musekins.

...from the mail used for tournaments????

Item iii paires de manches et uns chauçons et iii paires de panz.
Item, 3 pairs of sleeves, a pair of chaussons, and 3 pairs of paunces.
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This is one of the most intriguing secrets of the mail age. I don't know of any mail sample of that age that has been identified as a tournament piece or a "double mail" that is another definition that sometimes appear and leave us puzzled.
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