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Answers to some of the most frequently questions submitted to Knyghtly Armes.
Q: Where did a knight go to buy his armour?
For a few pounds more, a knight could commission an armourer directly. Across Northern Europe, the guild system restricted the number of master armourers, journeymen and apprentices in any workshop; however, Milan remained free of restrictions and came t...
Q: What determined the kind of armour a knight would buy?
Unfortunately, very little English armour has survived from the fifteenth century. In fact, if you consider all of the “complete” sets of European armour on display in museums around the world, an overwhelming majority of them are actually...