Source: medievalwarfare.info
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Probably one of the most widely reproduced suits-of-armour in the world, this full plate harness of Archduke Sigmund of Tyrol is the very epitome of German 'High Gothic' armour,
with virtually every piece being decoratively ripple-fluted.
As can be clearly seen, the deep fauld has diminished over the intervening decades until it now comes only just below the hips,
a stage in its evolution that had been reached by as early as the 1460s.
The breastplate had by this time similarly evolved and was now strengthened by a two-piece plackart, connected at its apex to the bevor.
His helmet is a sallet, called a Tschelern in Germany at the time of its first recorded appearance there in 1425,
this becoming in time Schallern, the name probably originally deriving either from Schale (shell) or from a corruption of Italian celata
(from which type of helmet it may have evolved).
Source: GERMAN MAN-AT-ARMS c.1480 in Armies of the Middle Ages, Volume 2 by Ian Heath, based on the armour of Archduke Sigmund of Tyrol.
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