What were the layers of a knights armor?

Answer 1

The Knight could Have worn many types of armor, but the selection depended on his location. If the knight were from France, he would have worn armour with a skinny nose on it

If the knight were from a certain time in Britain, it would have used a type of one piece helmet that had two Eyeholes

If the knight were from Germany or Austria, he would have worn a helmet that most people think about when they think knight

Answer 2

A knight's armor typically consisted of several layers, including a padded undergarment for comfort and to absorb impact, a chain mail shirt for protection against cutting attacks, a metal breastplate for added defense, plate armor pieces to protect the limbs, and a helmet to protect the head. Additional accessories like gauntlets, greaves, and sabatons could also be worn for further protection.

Answer 3

Mounted warriors used a variety of weapons from the eleventh to the sixteenth century. Lances and similar spears were the primary weapon. For closer range combat, swords and maces could be used. The exact type of these groups of weapons changed over time.

Armour also changed over time, becoming generally heavier and heavier and more unweildy as time passed. Eventually the heavily-armed knight on horseback became so awkward that he could be immobilized by knocking him off his horse.

Answer 4

The basic parts of a knight's armor were :

• Helmet
• Bevor or Gorget protecting the throat
• Breastplate and backplate
• Arm : spaulders or pauldrons at top, rerebrace, couter at elbow,vanbrace, and gauntlet
• Fauld strips and tasset plates at waist
• Leg : Cuisses at top, poleyn at knee, greave below
• Foot : Sabatons were metal footwear

Each section could have mail sections as well as plates, although full chain mail undergarments could be worn separately.

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They had chain mail and steel plate
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Knights wear metal plates on their chest, arms, hands, shins and face. They wore metal boots on their feet.

Answer 5

A knight would first put on a heavily padded jerkin to serve as a buffer between their skin and the armor, which would help diffuse the force of the blows a knight received. This would be covered by a chainmail hauberk, which was a chain shirt that extended up over the head in a hood and on down to the mid thigh. Over this would be placed a cuirass (back and front torso plates connected by rivets and leather straps). Next a knight would put on his pauldrons and gorget, the shoulder and neck armor, respectively. These would be followed by cuisses, vambrances, and gauntlets which protected the arms. A fauld would be added to protect the upper thighs and and a culette to protect the back and aft quarters. Poleyns, the equivalent of a knee pad made of metal, greaves that protected the shins and the calves, and and sabatons that protected the feet were added, and last a helmet was put over the head as the finishing protective touch.

Answer 6

Iron, leather and cloth. Not necessarily all three.

Answer 7

Helm

Cuirass

Shoulder armor

Legs and feet armor

Answer 8

steel armor