A member of my Barony wants to put together a kit (for SCA) that would have been worn by a minor nobleman fighting under the Black Prince at the battle of Crecy.
He wants to be as accurate as possible for SCA. I know generalities of the period but as for English specific armour I am stumped. I don't want to tell him stuff that the English didn't wear.
English, battle of crecy
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Bertram Entwessell
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It would be classic transitional stuff. There are a several pictures of English funeral brasses in "Arms and Armor of the Medieval Knight" that can be dated pretty close to that time.
- Long sleeve hauberk
- Coat of plates
- Bascinet with aventail
- Plate on the extremities, including real spaulders not the little leaf things from Wisby
- Hourglass gauntlets
Crecy is a pretty cool time period for armour! The transitional era gives you a lot of room to experiment and find what you like. Here's what I'd recommend (look in Arms and Armour of the Medieval Knight)
Bascinet or Pembridge Great Helm
Coat of Plates (Churbourg Breastplates were not in use yet) over haubergon and aketon. These were often made with each layer shorter than the one under it. This would allow you to fake the Haubergon by attaching maille to the bottom of the C of P.
Arms I'd recommend fully enclosed vambrace attached to an elbow by leathers and tied to the gambeson, along with a spaulder and attached rerebrace. I've seen very little evidence that 5 piece articulated arms were in use by 1350 so they were probably not that common. A mail sleeve under the spaulder and hanging over the elbow would be cool also.
Legs
Legs will give him a lot of options.
Top of the line would include, full plate legs, greaves and sabatons.
Second would be plate knees and sabatons, brigandine thighs, and splint greaves.
Next would be Plate knees, gamboised cuisse, mail chausses.
See Sir Miles Stapleton's effigy on page 75 of Arms and Armour of the Medieval Knight.
Lord Theodore
Bascinet or Pembridge Great Helm
Coat of Plates (Churbourg Breastplates were not in use yet) over haubergon and aketon. These were often made with each layer shorter than the one under it. This would allow you to fake the Haubergon by attaching maille to the bottom of the C of P.
Arms I'd recommend fully enclosed vambrace attached to an elbow by leathers and tied to the gambeson, along with a spaulder and attached rerebrace. I've seen very little evidence that 5 piece articulated arms were in use by 1350 so they were probably not that common. A mail sleeve under the spaulder and hanging over the elbow would be cool also.
Legs
Legs will give him a lot of options.
Top of the line would include, full plate legs, greaves and sabatons.
Second would be plate knees and sabatons, brigandine thighs, and splint greaves.
Next would be Plate knees, gamboised cuisse, mail chausses.
See Sir Miles Stapleton's effigy on page 75 of Arms and Armour of the Medieval Knight.
Lord Theodore