Barrel armor

Barrel armor
Information
Weapon type:	Protective weapon
Designations:	Barrel armor, tonlet armor, tonnelet, kempfküriss
Use:	armor
Working time:	15th to 16th century
Region of origin / ; author:	Europe , armory
Distribution:	Europe
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The barrel armor also Kempfküriss , Tonlet Armor , Tonnelett , barrel rock is a late medieval armor from Europe.

description

The barrel armor was specially developed for fighting on foot. It is usually smooth or in folds (pleated skirt armor) and is attached to the lower breastplate. It protects the wearer about up to the knees. There is a version that is completely straight, closed at the bottom, as well as a version that is cut out in an arc on the front and back. The cut-out barrel skirt was used so that a wearer of this type of armor could still sit on the horse. The shape of the skirt varies. Some are straight, almost square in shape, while others are shaped like a bell. With this type of armor, the leg armor ( Diechlinge and tassettes ) were omitted, as the skirt took over the protection of the legs. This made the fighter much more agile on foot than in normal armor. These barrel armor were also worn at the tournament when it was contested in foot combat.

literature

Kunsthistorisches Museum Wien: Guide through the collections of the Kunsthistorisches Museum (= guide through the Kunsthistorisches Museum 9). 5th, expanded and modified edition. Schroll, Vienna 1975, ISBN 3-7031-0413-9 , pp. 90, 94.
Austrian National Library, Albertina Graphic Collection, Art History Museum (weapons collection): Maximilian I. 1459–1519 (= Biblos-Schriften. Vol. 23, ZDB -ID 501904-7 ). Austrian National Library, Vienna 1959 (exhibition catalog, Vienna, May 23 to September 30, 1959).

Web links

Commons : Barrel Rock Armor - Album with pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

↑ George Cameron Stone : A Glossary of the Construction, Decoration and Use of Arms and Armor in All Countries and in All Times. With an Introduction by Donald J. LaRocca. Courier Dover Publications, Mineola NY 1999, ISBN 0-486-40726-8 , p. 622.
↑ Wendelin Boeheim : Handbook of Armament. The weapon system in its historical development from the beginning of the Middle Ages to the end of the 18th century (= Seemanns Kunstgewerbliche Handbücher. Vol. 7, ZDB -ID 53757-3 ). Seemann, Leipzig 1890, pp. 532–535 (reprint. Fourier Verlag, Wiesbaden 1985, ISBN 3-201-00257-7 )

[1] George Cameron Stone : A Glossary of the Construction, Decoration and Use of Arms and Armor in All Countries and in All Times. With an Introduction by Donald J. LaRocca. Courier Dover Publications, Mineola NY 1999, ISBN 0-486-40726-8 , p. 622.

[2] Wendelin Boeheim : Handbook of Armament. The weapon system in its historical development from the beginning of the Middle Ages to the end of the 18th century (= Seemanns Kunstgewerbliche Handbücher. Vol. 7, ZDB -ID 53757-3 ). Seemann, Leipzig 1890, pp. 532–535 (reprint. Fourier Verlag, Wiesbaden 1985, ISBN 3-201-00257-7 )