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Effigy of Günther von Schwarzburg, German Knight, 1352AD. Sankt Bartholomäus, Frankfurt am Main.


A detail of the Effigy of Günther von Schwarzburg, German Knight, 1352AD. Sankt Bartholomäus, Frankfurt am Main.

Grabplatte der Tumba des Günther von Schwarzburg (+1349), Gegenkönig Karls IV., mitteldeutsch?, 1352, Frankfurt (Main), Stifts- und Pfarrkirche Sankt Bartholomäus —

Foto Marburg, Foto: Rödel, Volker;
Aufnahme-Nr. LAC 49.231;; (color); Aufn.-Datum: 1995;
Source: bildindex

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Referenced in 105. German Knight, Günther von Schwarzburg, d.1349 in Armies of the Middle Ages, Volume 2 by Ian Heath:
His arms and legs are protected by leather strengthened with metal splints and rivets, a popular form of armour in Germany from the late-13th century until c.1380. His foot-armour is similarly of rivet-reinforced leather, Claude Blair observing that the Germans ‘apparently had no great liking’ for mail sabatons. Although he carries a heaume (with a crest that is unlikely to have been worn in action) the helmet he actually wears is a bascinet à brèteche, popular in Germany and Italy c.1340-70. This was a type of helmet in which the mail hood had an in-built nasal which could be hooked up to 2 studs on the brow of the helmet
A form of visor, usually referred to today by its modern name of Klappvisier, evolved from this in Germany c.1360; this was hinged by the middle of its top edge to a vertical bar similarly attached by 2 studs on the brow of the helmet.