From Encyclopedia
- Backplate
- Plate armour defence for the back.
- Close-helmet
- Helmet which, with a full visor and bevor, completely encloses the head and face; modern use of the term tends to refer…
- Crest
- A heraldic recognitive device fixed to the top of the great helm, introduced in the second half of the thirteenth and in wide use by the…
- Flammards
- Also flambards. Two-handed swords with a certain wave or with a flamed blade.
