what armour and clothing did the nights templar wear

[Armand Choiseul]

what armour and clothing did the nights templar wear i want to make the clothing and armour and wanted to know the history first so i can figuer out what to make

[RandallMoffett]

What time period exactly?
2nd half of 12th, mail shirt with long sleeves, likely a open face round topped helmet. Shield.
13th. mail shirt with integral mittens. Some type of early helm and a shield.
Depending on where in those respective centuries is alot fo change as well. I am sure someone with much more info on their clothing will point some info out. You may wish to refer to the 'I want to be a' forum under the armour construction discussion.

RPM

[Egfroth]

Yes, the dating is important. There's not much info available for the early years, though the Bayeux Tapestry http://www.angelfire.com/rnb/bayeux_tapestry/index.html is fairly close. There were changes in gear during the period between the Tapestry and the beginning of the Templars, but they were fairly minor - tunics became longer and were visible below the hem of the mailshirt, which had sleeves that sometimes went all the way to the wrist.

For the late 12th century, see http://bugpowder.com/andy/e.winchester-bible.html and http://translate.google.com/translate?h ... UMbas.html and http://bacm.creditmutuel.fr/HORTUS_DELICIARUMbas.html and http://www.renfroana.150m.com/liberadhonorem.htm

For the 13th century see http://forums.armourarchive.org/phpBB2/ ... hp?t=48774

[Armand Choiseul]

the 13th.

[Thaddeus]

When in the 13th century?

Things change pretty dramatically from 1200 to 1300.

Check the So I wanna be an XXX section of the archive. A lot of good basic information is available there.

[Cliff Rogers]

From my forthcoming book on Soliders' Lives in the MA:
No better picture of what this meant for a common horseman can be found than the list of possessions allowed to sergeant-brothers of the Order of the Temple: a dagger, a bread-knife, a pocket knife, two shirts, two pairs of breeches and two pairs of hose, a jerkin, a fur jacket, two mantles (one fur-trimmed), a heavy, hooded cloak, a tunic, two belts, a mattress-sack which he could stuff with straw, a sheet, a blanket, two bags, a leather sack for his mail-shirt, an eating-cloth, a wash-cloth, a rug for sifting his horses’ barley and a bowl for measuring it, a saddle bag, two cups, two flasks, a bowl, a spoon, a cloth cap, and a felt hat.
(Knight-brothers also got a tent & cauldron.)
The Rule of the Templars: The French Text of the Rule of the Order of the Knights Templar, tr. J. M. Upton-Ward (Woodbridge: Boydell, 1992), 138-41.

[Steve S.]

Armand:

One of the best sources of pictures for highly accurate renderings for mid-13th century military and civilian equipment and clothing is the Maciejowsky Bible. It has been modernly reprinted (though it is out of print it is still available) as "Old Testament Miniatures".

It is available online here:

http://www.medievaltymes.com/courtyard/ ... _bible.htm

Steve