Encyclopedia of historical weapons - Ailette
A flat plate of leather or parchment (square, round or diamond-shaped) which tied to the point of the shoulder. Worn between 1250-1350 to display the owner's coat-of-arms.
From Encyclopedia
- Breastplate
- Plate armour protecttion for the front of the torso, to the waist. See also plackart.
- Cuisse
- Armor protecting thighs.
- Elbow gauntlet
- The cuff of this gauntlet reaches the elbow, replacing both the lower cannon of the vambrace and the couter.
- Sabaton
- Articulated, steel armor protecting the foot. Sometimes called solleret by the French.
