Cavalry battle between crusaders and infidels, 12th century.

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Cavalry battle between crusaders and infidels, 12th century. The crusaders wear chainmail coats and pointed helmets with small crosses. One crusader holds a standard (gonfanon or gonfalon). Taken from Montfaucon and from a stained-glass window in Saint Denis, 1140. Handcoloured copperplate drawn and engraved by Leopold Massard from French Costumes from King Clovis to Our Days, Massard, Mifliez, Paris, 1834.

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