Just a note to let you know that I am beginning my second brigandine project. This one will have the peplum plates properly segmented in front for ease of mounting a horse, and will mount a lance rest, as seen on "Wrath's" brigandine in Rene of Anjou's 'Livre de Amor', otherwise based on the Royal Armouries 4 matching brigandines as my last one.

Craig and I adjusted the pattern to fit me better last year, but the project got put aside for a while, and we are just beginning it now. I'll take some photos of the foundation as I sew it together this week, to try to document it's progress.

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Bob should respond later today or tomorrow.

Jenn

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I think the earliest I have seen a lance rest on a brigandine, in Italian artwork, is around 1420, give or take 10 years.

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I took pictures of the Kolosvari brothers' St. George Statue (actually, of a copy of the one in Prague that's still in Kolosvar), from 1373, and it has a lance rest. I was thinking that might be early, but as you know, these armors aren't my forte.

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Actually, that makes perfect sense when you think about it. The lance rest seems to come in generally by 1370, so it makes as much sense to be on a later coat of plates as on a breastplate of the same time.

At the same time, the brigandine is coming in, but primarily as an infantry armour for footsoldiers, but it seems to be adopted by mounted men in the early 15th century, and thus the lance rest following.

So, it would seem to me that the lance rest would follow to be on an up to date armour for a man at arms, regardless of type, so long as it was ridged enough to support one, and that when shock cavalry adopted brigandines, about that time ot would appear on bigandines.

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