GAMBESON

Updated 05-May-2020.

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Definition of GAMBESON: a medieval garment of stuffed and quilted cloth or leather originally worn under the hauberk as a pad but later used alone as a defensive garment… See the full definition

My botty best at summarizing from Wikipedia: gambesons were produced with a sewing technique called quilting . arming doublets are worn under armor, particularly plate armor of 15th- and 16th-century Europe . they contain arming points for attaching goussets may be sewn into the elbows and armpits to protect the wearer . in late fifteenth century Italy this also became a civilian fashion . men who were not knights wore arming panzari/panzer is probably also a loan from (Middle) Low German . the European gambeson can be traced at least to the late 10th century . in Europe, its use became widespread gambesons underwent a revolution from their first proven use in the late 11th and early 12th centuries as an item of armor that simply facilitated the wearing of mail . quilted armor survived into the English Civil War padded jacks were known to stop even heavy arrows and their design bears a striking resemblance to modern day body armor . for common soldiers who could not afford mail or plate armor, the gam how a man shall be armed for his ease? a translation of the mid-fifteenth century treatise on armor . translated into modern English and accompanied by pictorial references.