Count Ludwig knocked backward from his horse during a joust, 16th century. He wears a helmet, buckler and armour cuisses, and his lance is broken. The buckler (shield) and caparison have silver decoration painted on a red field. The fall occurred in a joust with his brother Duke William IV of Bavaria from an illustration in his Turnierbuch (Tournament Book). Chromolithograph from Hefner-Alteneck's "Costumes, Artworks and Appliances from the Middle Ages to the 17th Century," Frankfurt, 1889. Illustration by Dr. Jakob Heinrich von Hefner-Alteneck, lithographed by C. Regnier. Dr. Hefner-Alteneck (1811-1903) was a German museum curator, archaeologist, art historian, illustrator and etcher.

Count Ludwig knocked backward from his horse during a joust, 16th century. He wears a helmet, buckler and armour cuisses, and his lance is broken. The buckler (shield) and caparison have silver decoration painted on a red field. The fall occurred in a joust with his brother Duke William IV of Bavaria from an illustration in his Turnierbuch (Tournament Book). Chromolithograph from Hefner-Alteneck's "Costumes, Artworks and Appliances from the Middle Ages to the 17th Century," Frankfurt, 1889. Illustration by Dr. Jakob Heinrich von Hefner-Alteneck, lithographed by C. Regnier. Dr. Hefner-Alteneck (1811-1903) was a German museum curator, archaeologist, art historian, illustrator and etcher.

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