Anglo Saxon king in battle wearing a crown, knee-length chain-mail tunic or lorica, a suit of armour reserved for royalty in the 8th century. He carries a yellow shield and brandishes a sword above his head 45. Identified as Pepin II, the Younger, King of Aquitaine, 823c.864. His equerry wears a blue cloth hat Phrygian cap and white tunica, and carries a white shield rimmed with scarlet 44. Handcolored copperplate engraving from Robert von Spalart's Historical Picture of the Costumes of the Principal People of Antiquity and Middle Ages, Vienna, 1796.
Anglo Saxon king in battle wearing a crown, knee-length chain-mail tunic or lorica, a suit of armour reserved for royalty in the 8th century. He carries a yellow shield and brandishes a sword above his head 45. Identified as Pepin II, the Younger, King of Aquitaine, 823c.864. His equerry wears a blue cloth hat Phrygian cap and white tunica, and carries a white shield rimmed with scarlet 44. Handcolored copperplate engraving from Robert von Spalart's Historical Picture of the Costumes of the Principal People of Antiquity and Middle Ages, Vienna, 1796.