The poleyn or genouillere was a component of Medieval and Renaissance armor that protected the knee. During the transition from mail armor to plate armor, this was among the earliest plate components to develop. They first appeared around 1230[1] and remained in use until 1650 when firearms made them obsolete.
The specifics of poleyn design varied considerably over that period. The earliest poleyns were strapped over mail chausses.[1] Fourteenth century and early fifteenth century poleyns usually attached to padded leggings or plate cuisses. During the fifteenth century poleyns developed an articulated construction that attached to the cuisses and schynbalds or greaves. A characteristic of late fifteenth century Gothic plate armor was a projection that guarded the side of the knee.
The poleyn or genouillere was a component of Medieval and Renaissance armor that protected the knee. During the transition from mail armor to plate armor...
Sabine Poleyn (born 27 November 1973) is a Flemish politician for the Christian Democratic and Flemish party. Born in Kortrijk, Belgium, Poleyn studied...
defenses that continued from the lower edge of the breastplate down to the poleyn. Media related to Tassets at Wikimedia Commons Cleveland Museum of Art glossary...
Anachronism, a couter/cowter is often called an elbow cop.[citation needed] Poleyn Oakeshott 1996, p. 285. Oakeshott, R. Ewart (1996) [1960]. The Archaeology...
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forearm protection. A towarzysz also could wear tasset hip, cuisse thigh, and poleyn knee protection, underneath a thigh-length coat of mail or specially padded...
rerebrace. Leg Chausses Mail hosen, either knee-high or covering the whole leg. Poleyn 13th Plate that covers the knee, appeared early in the transition from mail...
was known as the gamboised cuisse. Reinforcing plates for knees called poleyns began to supplement mail chausses after about 1230. Because most leg armor...
family which gave it the distinctive name of Dibden Poleyn. John Poleyn held it in 1369 and the Poleyn family was still holding it in 1413. By 1422 the manor...
in the 12th and 13th centuries, usually over chausses, and may have had poleyns directly attached to them. Whilst continental armours tended to have cuisses...
and backplate) with a fauld, tassets and a culet, a mail skirt, cuisses, poleyns, greaves, and sabatons. The very fullest sets, known as garnitures, more...
breastplate) with a fauld, tassets and a culet, a mail skirt, cuisses, poleyns, greaves, and sabatons.[citation needed] Unlike its predecessors, white...
body were already covered in plate armour as early as 1250, such as the Poleyns for covering the knees and Couters – plates that protected the elbows,...
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