A coast of armor for the body, consisting of scales or plates, sometimes overlapping each other, generally of metal, and sewed to linen or other material. It was worn in the Middle Ages.
Known also as: Brigandyron, Brigantayle. Armour made of plates of iron or steel overlapping upwards, riveted to a cloth or leather garment. The plates were "tinned" to prevent rusting, and were located on the inside of the armour, with the rivet heads showing through on the outer surface..
A type of armored sleeveless jacket, used principally by infantry throughout the fifteenth century and until the middle of the sixteenth century, consisting of numerous small overlapping plates of metal attached with rivets to the back of a cloth support. Fine examples are often faced with colorful velvet.
Jer.51-3] A coat of mail armor. **Mail armour is no longer worn, but the product and the name of it are historic fact and should not be changed or deleted.
a medieval coat of chain mail consisting of metal rings sewn onto leather or cloth
Jacket reinforced with riveted metal plates.
A type of coat-of-plates (see below) with hundreds of small, overlapping plates, providing great mobility at a slight cost in protection. Popular in the 15th and 16th centuries, the brigandine was usually worn over padding, but not mail.
A flexible body defence consisting of a large number of metal plates riveted inside a cloth covering.
Flexible torso armor of small plates riveted inside a covering of leather or fabric
Brigantine] Metal splints sewed upon canvas, linen, or leather and covered with similar materials; a material used in making light armour. A "pair of brigandines" is a body-coat of this material, in two pieces. (Davis, H.W. C. (ed.) Medieval England, 615) Defensive jacket of metal plates on cloth. (Seward, Desmond. Henry V: The Scourge of God, 221) A canvas or leather jacket with small plates of metal stitched inside, popular from c. 1340. (Wise, Terence. Medieval Warfare, 247) Related terms: Armor / Jack
A flexible vestlike body defense composed of many small plates riveted inside a cloth covering.
A brigandine, a form of body armour, is a cloth garment, generally canvas or leather, lined with small oblong steel plates riveted to the fabric. The form of the brigandine is essentially the same as the civilian doublet, though it is commonly sleeveless. However, depictions of brigandine armor with sleeves are known.