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Splint armor (also splinted armour, splint armour, or splinted armor) is armor consisting of strips of metal ("splints") attached to a cloth or leather backing. It is most commonly found as limb armor such as greaves or vambraces.
While a few complete suits of armor have been found made from splints of wood, leather, or bone, the Victorian neologism " splinted mail" usually refers to the limb protections of crusader
Description
Limb armor consisting of strips of metal ("splints") are attached to a fabric (cloth or leather) backing ("foundation"). The splints are narrow metal strips arranged longitudinally, pierced for riveting or sewing to the foundation. Splint armor is most commonly found as greaves or vambraces. It first appears in aScythia
Scythia (, ) or Scythica (, ) was a geographic region defined in the ancient Graeco-Roman world that encompassed the Pontic steppe. It was inhabited by Scythians, an ancient Eastern Iranian equestrian nomadic people.
Etymology
The names ...
n grave from the 4th century BCOakeshott: ''The Archaeology of Weapons'', 67
then in the Swedish Migration Era;Oakeshott: ''The Archaeology of Weapons'', 124 and again in the 14th century as part of transitional armour, where it was also used to form cuisses and rerebraces.
Splint mail/splinted mail
While a few complete suits of armor have been found made from splints of wood, leather, or bone, the Victorian neologism " splinted mail" usually refers to the limb protections of crusader knights
A knight is a person granted an honorary title of a knighthood by a head of state (including the pope) or representative for service to the monarch, the church, or the country, especially in a military capacity.
The concept of a knighthood ...
. Depictions typically show it on the limbs of a person wearing mail
The mail or post is a system for physically transporting postcards, letter (message), letters, and parcel (package), parcels. A postal service can be private or public, though many governments place restrictions on private systems. Since the mid ...
, scale armor, a coat of plates or other plate harness.
Knights in effigy
An effigy is a sculptural representation, often life-size, of a specific person or a prototypical figure. The term is mostly used for the makeshift dummies used for symbolic punishment in political protests and for the figures burned in certain ...
are depicted with leg protection of a matrix of disks with a diameter equal to the splints. This style appears to depict sabaton
A sabaton or solleret is part of a knight's body armour, body armor that covers the foot.
History
Sabatons from the 14th and 15th centuries typically end in a tapered point well past the actual toes of the wearer's foot, following poulaines, f ...
s and splints on greaves, or may represent padded armour underneath splints, or the rivets on brigandine.
See also
* Coat of plates * Mirror armour * Scale armour * Mail and plate armour * Gambeson * BrigandineReferences
Bibliography
* {{Types of armour Body armor Medieval armour