A knight Templar on horseback, 14th century. He wears a suit of armour in steel, gauntlets and spurs, with shield, tabard, saddle and caparison are all decorated with a red cross on a white field. From a miniature in a manuscript in the Barberini library, Rome. Handcoloured illustration drawn and lithographed by Paul Mercuri with text by Camille Bonnard from "Historical Costumes from the 12th to 15th Centuries," Levy Fils, Paris, 1861.
A knight Templar on horseback, 14th century. He wears a suit of armour in steel, gauntlets and spurs, with shield, tabard, saddle and caparison are all decorated with a red cross on a white field. From a miniature in a manuscript in the Barberini library, Rome. Handcoloured illustration drawn and lithographed by Paul Mercuri with text by Camille Bonnard from "Historical Costumes from the 12th to 15th Centuries," Levy Fils, Paris, 1861.