Renaissance Knighthood costumes. Dutch Guelderian Wars 16th century.
Tag: Knighthood
Knight is originally the designation for the armed, heavily armed, mounted warriors of the European Middle Ages.
Portrait of King Charles the First 1648.
King Charles the First 1648. From the House of Stuart. He was beheaded on the 30th of January, 1649 before the Banqueting House in London.
Medieval English fashion. 14th century costumes. Gothic era.
Medieval English fashion. 14th century costumes.
German Medieval dresses in the 14th Century.
German Medieval dresses 14th Century.
Ancient warriors. Life-size figures in full armor.
Ancient warriors. Life-size figures in full armor and equipment. Carl Gimbel Collection.
German knights and nobel women 15th Century.
German knights and nobel women German fashion in the XV. and XVI. Century. Upper half of the image on the left: German knights and wife 1450. Right: German Prince and Princess… Read More
German Medieval costumes 14th Century.
German Medieval costumes 14th Century. Top row left: Knightly costume second half of the 13th Century. Günther von Schwarzburg. Nobles lady. Roman King 1349. Right: Count to Orlamünde middle of… Read More
Dutchmen and Burgundians, 15th c.
Gothic fashion of Dutch citizens and Burgundian nobility at the end of the 15th century.
Reign of Philip III and Louis VIII. The influence of the Crusaders.
Severity of feminine costume – Long gowns and gimps – Marguerite of Provence – “Fermaux” – Reappearance of splendor in dress – Eastern customs – The priests of fashion – Haberdashery and peacock-feathers – Female embroiderers – Taste for embroidery – Continual temptations – Earliest sumptuary laws – Furs – St. Louis’s opinion on dress – Prohibitions by Philippe le Bel; speech made by his wife – Crépine.
Men-at-arms with lances. 16th century soldiers.
German knights, men-at-arms with lances, 16th century. Renaissance era, 16th century soldiers. Heavy cavalry.