French knights in armour wearing shoulderplates or ailettes with coat of arms, 13th They wear chainmail armour, tunic, helmet, and the horse is clothed with an armorial caparison. From a manuscript in Rouen library, the Metamorphosis by Ovid. .Chevaliers du XIIIe siecle (Bib. des M. de Rouen, Metamorphoses d’Ovide). Handcoloured lithograph by Villain after an illustration by Horace de Viel-Castel from his Collection des costumes, armes et meubles pour servir à l'histoire de la France (Collection of costumes, weapons and furniture to be used in the history of France), Treuttel & Wurtz


French knights in armour wearing shoulderplates or ailettes with coat of arms, 13th They wear chainmail armour, tunic, helmet, and the horse is clothed with an armorial caparison. From a manuscript in Rouen library, the Metamorphosis by Ovid. .Chevaliers du XIIIe siecle (Bib. des M. de Rouen, Metamorphoses d’Ovide). Handcoloured lithograph by Villain after an illustration by Horace de Viel-Castel from his Collection des costumes, armes et meubles pour servir à l'histoire de la France (Collection of costumes, weapons and furniture to be used in the history of France), Treuttel & Wurtz, Bossange, 1829.


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