Renner (horse)

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This illustration of a knight on horseback may show a courser.
Lance piercing on the racing meadow

A Renner ( Engl . Courser , French . Coursier ) is a fast and powerful horse, which in medieval times of knights and glaives often than warhorse but was used as a show horse.

etymology

The term “Renner” has a military-functional character: In Middle High German , the Renner is a horse to race in the sense of attacking on horseback . The English name "Courser" comes from the Oxford English Dictionary , the pace of the racer - after the old French courre "rennen" - was named. But the word could also be derived from the Italian corsiero " warhorse ".

use

Renner were used more often than the heavy Destrier for tough combat operations because they were relatively light, fast and strong. Renner were valuable horses, but less expensive than the high-priced Destrier, which was often used as a prestigious competition horse for lancing on the racing meadow . Another common all-purpose horse in war was the runtzid .

Racers were occasionally used for hunting or as racehorses.

See also

Footnotes

  1. ^ Friedrich Kluge : Etymological dictionary of the German language. 18th edition. de Gruyter, Berlin 1960, p. 596.
  2. ^ Entry in the Oxford English Dictionary . Tenth edition, 1999.
  3. ^ A b Ewart Oakeshott : A Knight and his Horse , Rev. 2nd Ed. USA: Dufour Editions, 1998, p. 11 f.
  4. ^ A b Ann Hyland : The Warhorse 1250–1600 . Sutton Publishing, 1998, p. 221.
  5. ↑ Michael Prestwich . Armies and Warfare in the Middle Ages: The English Experience , New Haven: Yale University Press, 1996.
  6. ↑ Christopher Gravett : English Medieval Knight 1300-1400 . Osprey Publishing, Oxford 2002, p. 59.