Elias I, Count of Maine, died 1110. He wears a tunic and stockings of chainmail, iron helmet and triangular escutcheon (shield) with gold cross. Sword in a large scabbard hanging from his neck. Taken from his tomb in Abbey Saint-Pierre de la Couture, Le Mans. Handcoloured copperplate drawn and engraved by Leopold Massard from "French Costumes from King Clovis to Our Days," Massard, Mifliez, Paris, 1834.
Elias I, Count of Maine, died 1110. He wears a tunic and stockings of chainmail, iron helmet and triangular escutcheon (shield) with gold cross. Sword in a large scabbard hanging from his neck. Taken from his tomb in Abbey Saint-Pierre de la Couture, Le Mans. Handcoloured copperplate drawn and engraved by Leopold Massard from "French Costumes from King Clovis to Our Days," Massard, Mifliez, Paris, 1834.