A mounted ensign in plate armor holding a purple standard with blue diagonal lines. The knight's colors of purple and blue are seen in the skirts and the helmet plumes. The horse is covered in plate barding armour. Copied from Marcus Vulson de la Colombiere’s Le vrai theatre d’honneur et de chevalerie, 1638. Handcolored copperplate engraving from Robert von Spalart's Historical Picture of the Costumes of the Principal People of Antiquity and Middle Ages, Vienna, 1802.

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