Guard with Axe. Sleeping Soldiers at the Empty Tomb, c. 1345-50. Musée de l’Oeuvre Notre-Dame Cathedral, Strasbourg, Alsace-Lorraine, France.

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Guard with Axe
Sleeping Soldiers at the Empty Tomb, c. 1345-50. Musée de l’Oeuvre Notre-Dame Cathedral, Strasbourg, Alsace-Lorraine, France.

Guard with Axe. Sleeping Soldiers at the Empty Tomb, c. 1345-50. Musée de l’Oeuvre Notre-Dame Cathedral, Strasbourg, Alsace-Lorraine, France.

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ca. 1346-1348 - 'soldiers at the Holy Sepulchre', Cathédrale, Strasbourg, Musée de l'Oeuvre Notre-Dame, Strasbourg, France
Note the coat-of-plates, the chapel-the-fer on the left and the chains protruding through his surcoat connecting his sword and dagger to his coat-of-plates.
Photo by Roel Renmans

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German Infantrymen, Mid-14th Century, in Armies of the Middle Ages, Volume 2 by Ian Heath, based on this Guard with Axe. Sleeping Soldiers at the Empty Tomb, c. 1345-50. Musée de l’Oeuvre Notre-Dame Cathedral, Strasbourg, Alsace-Lorraine, France.