Foot-Combat armour of Prince-Elector Christian I of Saxony (reigned 1586-91), German, Augsburg, 1591. Commissioned in 1591 by Sophie of Brandenburg as a Christmas gift for her husband, Christian I (reigned 1586-91).

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