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Chartres Cathedral Statues
The Murder of Thomas Becket
Title: East Face 1: Martyrdom of Becket
Date: c. 1194-1230
Location: France, Chartres
Identifier: FCSP3195A212
Collection: Chartres: Cathedral of Notre-Dame
Contributor: University of Pittsburgh
Source: University of Pittsburgh Digital Collections.
Referenced as figure 35 in Arms and Armour of the Crusading Era, 1050-1350, Western Europe and the Crusader States by David Nicolle.
35 ‘Murder of St Thomas Becket’, carvings, County of Blois, early/mid-13th century
(in situ Cathedral, Chartres, France)
In stark contrast to the fantastic armour of Goliath and Philistines, the English knights who slay the Archbishop of Canterbury wear simple armour consisting of mail coifs, mail hauberks with mittens, mail chausses and unpadded loose surcoats. Their swords are equally simple and undecorated.