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A pauldron (sometimes spelled pouldron or powldron) is a component of plate armor that evolved from spaulders in the 15th century. As with spaulders, pauldrons cover the shoulder area. [ 1 ] Pauldrons tend to be larger than spaulders, covering the armpit and sometimes parts of the back and chest.
Spaulder: Bands of plate that cover the shoulder and part of upper arm but not the armpit. Pauldron: 15th: Covers the shoulder (with a dome shaped piece called a shoulder cop), armpit and sometimes the back and chest. Gardbrace: Extra plate that covers the front of the shoulder and the armpit, worn over top of a pauldron.
A set of spaulders A modern replica spaulder Spaulders are pieces of armour in a harness of plate armour . Typically, they are a single plate of steel or iron covering the shoulder with bands ( lames ) joined by straps of leather or rivets.
A rerebrace connected to a pauldron (which would cover the shoulder) Italian rerebrace, ~1440. A rerebrace (sometimes known as an upper cannon [1]) is a piece of armour designed to protect the upper arms (above the elbow). Splint rerebraces were a feature of Byzantine armour in the Early Medieval period.
Ō-yoroi, Kamakura period, 13th-14th century, National Treasure, Kasuga Grand Shrine. A man wearing Samurai armor and jinbaori (sleeveless jacket) turns around, 2019 ...
Paintings of Ancient Macedonian soldiers, arms, and armaments, from the tomb of Agios Athanasios, Thessaloniki in Greece, 4th century BC. The primary weapon that was used by Greek troops was a two-to-three meter spear with a leaf-shaped blade at one end and a short spike at the other known as the doru.
The torso was not the only part of the knight to receive this plate protection evolution, as the elbows and shoulders were covered with circular pieces of metal, commonly referred to as rondels, eventually evolving into the plate arm harness consisting of the rerebrace, vambrace, and spaulder or pauldron.
Epaulettes are fastened to the shoulder by a shoulder strap or passenten, [3] a small strap parallel to the shoulder seam, and the button near the collar, or by laces on the underside of the epaulette passing through holes in the shoulder of the coat.