Meaning of legharness | Babel Free

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Leg armor.

countable, uncountable

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“Right legharness and sabaton of an armour made for Charles VI of France as Dauphin.[…]Right legharness and sabaton of an armour in the manner of Jörg Seusenhofer of Innsbruck, dated 1549.”

“We have⟳ little pictorial evidence which can be dated reliably before 1320 of the existence of greaves like⟳ this, but there is an item in an inventory I have⟳ quoted before, of the arms and effects of Raoul de Nesle, which shows that they were in fact in use⟳ before 1302: “Item, ii furbished legharnesses, with closed greaves” (ii harnas de gaumbes fourbis, de coi les greves sont closes). The fact that the legharness is described as furbished has been taken to indicate⟳ that it was made of metal, not leather, but it is equally likely to imply that all straps, hinges and fittings were complete⟳ and in place⟳.”

“After the wound treatment business, a number⟳ of new pieces of armament began to turn⟳ up on the training ground: shields and bucklers, cuirasses and half-armors, legharnesses, pauldrons and vambraces, helms with buffes and low-cut visors.”

“There were no legharnesses but, instead, special boots modeled after the Roman soldier’s caligae.[…]In the early 1500s German armorers developed a foot-combat armor which had large symmetrical pauldrons with haute-pieces, full closed vambraces with laminated joint defense opposite the cowters, and full legharnesses with closed cuisses and laminated defense opposite the poleyns.”

“Like⟳ Quijada de Reayo before him, Zapata also insists that the jouster wear⟳ full legharness which, he says, ‘is fitting and proper so as not to hit the tilt or counter-tilt with your feet and break⟳ them and so as to enter⟳ safely amidst the kicks of other horses’.[…]It is common on German-made armours of the period for the cuisses on both legs to break⟳ down so that the legharness could be used for different functions, be it war, the joust, the tourney or foot combat.”

“Early fifteenth-century leg defenses (legharnesses) also differed little from their fourteenth-century predecessors. Only two significant changes were made to the legharness and both came about 1430.”

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