French crossbowman, 13th century. He wears a salade or sallet helmet, and a jaque (shirt) made of armoured deer skin (leather reinforced with wire). He carries a sword and crossbow, and wears long pointed shoes (cracows or poulaines). Handcoloured copperplate drawn and engraved by Leopold Massard from "French Costumes from King Clovis to Our Days," Massard, Mifliez, Paris, 1834.
French crossbowman, 13th century. He wears a salade or sallet helmet, and a jaque (shirt) made of armoured deer skin (leather reinforced with wire). He carries a sword and crossbow, and wears long pointed shoes (cracows or poulaines). Handcoloured copperplate drawn and engraved by Leopold Massard from "French Costumes from King Clovis to Our Days," Massard, Mifliez, Paris, 1834.