Encyclopedia of historical weapons - Gambeson
Quilted and embellished coat-armor.
From Encyclopedia
- Cuisse
- Armor protecting thighs.
- Glaive
- A broad-bladed, single-edged polearm. Mostly an 18” butcher-knife on a 6 - 7’ pole.
- Morning star
- Also called morgenstern. A form of spiked club , popular in the early sixteenth century.
- Vambrace
- Armor covering the forearm.
