Type of light cavalry or mounted infantry that originated in Medieval Ireland
A Connemara pony, representative of the hobby
Hobelars were a type of light cavalry, or mounted infantry, used in Western Europe during the Middle Ages for skirmishing. They originated in 13th century Ireland, and generally rode hobbies, a type of light and agile horse.
Hobelars were a type of light cavalry, or mounted infantry, used in Western Europe during the Middle Ages for skirmishing. They originated in 13th century...
bows or javelins. European examples of light cavalry included stradiots, hobelars, hussars, chasseurs à cheval, cossacks, chevau-légers, uhlans, and dragoons...
equipped professional soldiers made up of infantry and cavalry. Aside from Hobelars, who were highly mobile, lightly armoured, cavalry skirmishers and archers...
as a possible explanation for Robert the Bruce's apparent affinity for "hobelar" warfare, using smaller sturdy ponies in mounted raids, as well as for...
popular for skirmishing, and was often ridden by light cavalry known as Hobelars. Hobbies were used successfully by both sides during the Wars of Scottish...
ability to pick their way over the boggy moss lands (see: Galloway pony, Hobelar). The original dress of a shepherd's plaid was later replaced by light...
(one shilling) for a serjeant, 24d (two shillings) for a knight, 6d for a hobelar, 6d for a mounted archer, 4-6d for a crossbowman, and 3d for a foot archer...
swords, skenes and long spears or lances. One kind of Irish cavalry was the hobelar. After the Norman invasion there emerged a kind of heavy infantry called...
popular for skirmishing, and was often ridden by light cavalry known as Hobelars. Hobbies were used successfully by both sides during the Wars of Scottish...
1316 by Anthony de Lucy of Langley, who stationed 15 men-at-arms and 15 hobelars here. In 1326 King Edward II annexed the western part of Lucy's estate...
Yorkshire in 1322, and was later bolstered with 130 more men, including hobelars, providing an essential addition to the border defences against the Scots...
"appointed them controllers of all the arrayers and leaders of men at arms, hobelars and archers of the marches of England towards North Wales." A formal commission...
besiegers. They came with a large force of mounted infantry, known as hobelars. The Scots seemingly had news of the queen's whereabouts, and the rumour...
held of Edmund Mortimer, 3rd Earl of March. in return for providing a hobelar (a light cavalryman mounted on a hobby) for Wigmore Castle when there was...
1300 he was one of three Government ministers charged with selecting 300 hobelars (light cavalry) for the war with Scotland, sending them to the King at...
Ireland and the Lord Chancellor of Ireland was charged with selecting 300 hobelars (light cavalry) to send to the King at Carlisle by Midsummer Day, and to...
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