Collar

Collar of armor in the Ambrasersammlung, Vienna (photo around 1860)

As bevor ( Altd. = Halsberc , also annular collar ) refers to the neck part of the protective armor of the medieval knight . The knight put on the collar first because the armor was attached to it with straps. The helmet ended . It was provided with a fold and this connected it directly to the neck or the ring collar, so that the head could be moved sideways. He also had a chin piece and a neck guard, the former was attached to the neck with a hook and thus held the helmet. The chin piece, mouthpiece and visor piece were held together by a screw on the helmet and fastened under them with hooks.

Failure to do this at a tournament cost Henry II , King of France, his life on July 10, 1559.

Further development after the Middle Ages

In the transition to the early modern period , the neck collar continued to exist, only to shrink more and more into a ring collar , a crescent-shaped breastplate with a purely decorative purpose , in the course of the 16th and 17th centuries . This can be found in cuirassiers of the 18th and early 19th centuries as well as in the Wehrmacht military police .

Rembrandt: Self-Portrait with a Necklace , 1629

Others

Philip Sidney with a necklace

The Assyrians already knew a shape of the collar. Their scale armor was sealed with the so-called gurpīsu .

literature

Collar. In: Jacob Grimm , Wilhelm Grimm (Hrsg.): German dictionary . tape 10 : H, I, J - (IV, 2nd division). S. Hirzel, Leipzig 1877, Sp. 257-258 ( woerterbuchnetz.de ).

Web links

Commons : Gorgets (armor) - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

^ Wilhelm Müller, Georg Friedrich Benecke, Friedrich Zarncke: Middle High German Dictionary . Hirzel, Leipzig 1854 (NA 1990), p. 160.
^ Henry II of France . In: Encyclopædia Britannica . 11th edition. tape 13 : Harmony - Hurstmonceaux . London 1910, p. 291 (English, full text [ Wikisource ]).
↑ Erich Ebling, Bruno Meissner: Reallexikon der Assyriologie and Near Eastern Archeology. Berlin: de Gruyter, 1981, p. 342. ISBN 3-11-007192-4

[1] Wilhelm Müller, Georg Friedrich Benecke, Friedrich Zarncke: Middle High German Dictionary . Hirzel, Leipzig 1854 (NA 1990), p. 160.

[2] Henry II of France . In: Encyclopædia Britannica . 11th edition. tape 13 : Harmony - Hurstmonceaux . London 1910, p. 291 (English, full text [ Wikisource ]).

[3] Erich Ebling, Bruno Meissner: Reallexikon der Assyriologie and Near Eastern Archeology. Berlin: de Gruyter, 1981, p. 342. ISBN 3-11-007192-4