A combat that pits two different eras of medieval knights against each other

During the Late Middle Ages, from the 11th to the 15th century, knights' combat clothing underwent a great evolution.

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Chain mail, which had existed since ancient times, had given way in the 11th and 12th centuries to protections that covered the warrior's entire body. The Christian knights who arrived in the Holy Land with the First Crusade (1095-1099) followed the style of Norman armour with chain mail, open helmet and kite-shaped shield, clothing especially designed for heavy cavalry.

This armor evolved with the advent of closed helmets in the 12th and 13th centuries and smaller, more manageable shields. At the end of the 13th century, plate armor, already used by the Romans in their famous Lorica segmentata, reappeared to protect the legs, evolving from there to the white harness of the 15th and 16th centuries, a steel plate armor that covered the whole body and largely made the shield unnecessary.

Today the YouTube channel Dequitem has published another of its interesting videos in which we see a historical recreation of a combat between two knights from different periods of the Late Middle Ages, which shows us the evolution of military clothing during that historical period. On the one hand we see a knight wearing chain mail armor, a white surcoat, a closed cylindrical helmet typical of the 13th century and a long shield, but now smaller than the Norman kite-shaped shields. His opponent is a knight wearing full plate armor from the 15th century (the author of the video), still wearing a chain mail skirt but no longer wearing a shield.

Although both armors were designed for heavy cavalry, the 15th-century armor offered an advantage in combat on foot, since it allowed more agile movements than the heavier chain mail and facilitated more elaborate fencing by eliminating the shield.

Dequitem comments: "My opponent in high medieval mail and coat of plate is 195 cm and 180 kg in armor. Yes he looks a little bit like Robert Baratheon, but he also have a lot of muscles. We had 5 fights on that day and I defeaded him 4 times. this was his victory on that day, with a very discusting halfsword thrust to his neck. So defenetly not a clean victory, but still a great fight. We had a lot of fun and i am looking forward to fight him again. Next time i will give him one of my war hammers."

It must be said that these simulated fights do come with certain risks: "Unfortunately, we had to stop filming after I broke his nose with a killer blow to the visor," comments Dequitem. I was going to tell you not to try this at home, but how many of you do medieval armor fights in your spare time?