Bohemond Breastplate SIZE:2XLarge In addition to these smaller

In addition to these smaller pieces

be they knights or fierce barbarians

this powerful weapon was popular as a counter to plate armors

This vegetable leather pauldron is dyed in dark teints and engraved with complex patterns on the borders of each armor plate for an effect evoking refinement and elegance

Bohemond Breastplate SIZE:2XLarge In addition to these smallerLegend The Byzantine Emperor's daughter, Anna Comnena, leaves a good portrait of Bohemond I of Antioch in her Alexiad. She was quite fascinated by him and she left no similar portrait of any other Crusader prince. Of Bohemond, she wrote: ''He was so tall in stature that he overtopped the tallest by nearly one cubit, narrow in the waist and loins, with broad shoulders and a deep chest and powerful arms. And in the whole build of the body he was neither