Unusual medieval armor

This thread is dedicated to the weirdest suits of armor of the period. Check out this kooky jousting helmet worn by the young Henry VIII and now preserved at the Tower of London


(My apologies to the mods if such a topic already exists. If it does, please merge this post in with the others)

My gosh looks like something out of a bad sfi channel class b rerun.

ah very good. It's as you say a wierd one.

Welcome, mighty slayer of trolls. I think you got a raw deal elsewhere ... you know what I mean.

It's all non-functional then, is it? I recall reading somewhere that all the medieval period wore on, and gunpowder changed warfare, armour became much less functional, and often too ornate to be off much use anyway. Perhaps you can verify this.

Japanese armor was pretty weird

Not wierd per se but I've enjoyed in the past researching it....

Oh I dont know Nick not ugly but certainly not pretty...but when someones trying to kill ya.. pretty isnt much of a matter of consquence at the moment eh....

Ah excellent..... in round figures then we might be talking in excess of 200lbs?

Then you have to take into account the possibility jousting armor would be heavier and the likelihood medieval knights were smaller than their modern descendents and would have more trouble shifting the excess weight

Dear red, you have seen the size of the legs depicted within 16th to 18th century paintings, they look like the legs of todays body-builders.

Nick, some really good points above. However I really doubt that the average "knight" was much smaller than the average man today, that is about five feet eight/nine inches tall. Perhaps those so called "small" samples we see today are really "samples?"

As regards the original example that opened this line of converstation, I can only respond that the person wearing this outfit, seems to have needed "glasses" to see! That would date the time of this armour to the time of "glasses", it seems.

Regards,
Ron

Edited by opuslola - 08-May-2011 at 21:38