Subject: knight
Culture: Plantagenet English
Setting: early Hundred Years War, France mid-late 14thc
Object: armor > helmet
Royal Armouries Museum > War Gallery *
"Replica helm and surcoat of Edward the Black Prince
These are replicas of the achievements currently above the tomb of the Black Prince in Canterbury Cathedral." ...
* Metropolitan Museum of Art > Stone Gallery of Arms and Armor
"Visored Bascinet Steel Western European, about 1375-1400
The visored bascinet served as the standard knighty helmet worn throughout Europe from about 1300 to about 1420. The pierced studs along the rim held the aventail (a defense of mail covering the lower face, neck, and shoulders)." ...
* GDFB
Royal Armouries Museum > War Gallery *
"Great bascinet from the tomb of Sir John de Melsa. European, late 14th or early 15th century
Protecting the head and neck, this bascinet would originally have had a face defence (visor and gorget) and a lining. Sir John de Melsa served in the retinue of John de Grey, 1st Lord Grey of Rotherfield, in the Crécy campaign. He died in 1377 and the bascinet was subsequently hung over his tomb." ...
* Royal Armouries Museum > War Gallery
"Great Helm English, about 1370
This is one of only three surviving English great helms of the 14th century of a type worn during the Hundred Years' War." ...
Higgins Armory Museum *
"Basnet helmet Modern manufacture in the 15th century fashion" ..
Royal Armouries Museum > War Gallery *
"Bacinet, with mail aventail North Italian, probably Milanese, about 1390
This bacinet is of the type in use between 1380 and 1420 and worn by both sides at Agincourt. This rare example retains its original mail aventail which protects the neck and shoulders. ...
The bacinet is the finest surviving example known and is in exceptional condition. The skull of the helmet is forged from a single piece of steel and the detachable visor is of 'hounskull' form, so called because of the pointed snout. The helmet retains brass borders decorated with a 'wriggled' cable pattern. A leather band at the upper edge of the aventail fits over the brass staples or vervelles which border the helmet. Each of these is drilled with a hole for a string which passes throug them, holding the aventail on, allowing it to be removed easily for cleaning. The helmet weights 7012 g (15 lb 7 oz) and with the mail aventail 9980 g (22lb). The helmet once formed part of the great medieval armoury of the Matsch family of Churburg Castle, North Italy. It had been there from when ti was made until 1923 when it was sold. The armoury is the most important in private hands and is still displayed there." ...
