FLO4678336: A soldier and knight, 1295. Knight in bacinet helmet, gamboised coat hauberk and chausses, elbow plates, with shield, lance and sword. The soldier wears a hood and chainmail suit, multicoloured leather corium and trellised chausses with metal studs and leather bandages. Handcoloured lithograph by Maddocks after an illustration by S.R. Meyrick from Sir Samuel Rush Meyrick's A Critical Inquiry into Antient Armour. / Bridgeman Images
FLO4632125: Costume of a Cent-Suisse, elite infantry guard, in Henri IV by Saint-Hilaire and Michel Delaporte, Cirque Olympique, 1846. Handcoloured lithograph after an illustration by Alexandre Lacauchie from Victor Dollet's Galerie Dramatique: Costumes des Theatres de Paris, Paris, 1846. / Bridgeman Images
FLO4620299: Arms and armour of the Mamluks including armour, sabre, mace, arrow, helmet, sword, quiver, arrows, shield, musket, etc. Handcoloured copperplate engraving by Andrea Bernieri from Giulio Ferrario's Costumes Antique and Modern of All Peoples (Il Costume Antico e Moderno di Tutti i i i Popoli), 1843. / Bridgeman Images
FLO4707693: Harold II (Godwinson, King of England 1022-1066) offering his sword to the winner Guy I, Count of Ponthew (died 1010). The Franks, living in the cities, wore a longer tunic, covered in a coat, like Guy I (88). The defeated bearing his guard pointed to the ground, as Harold II executed him (87). The ordinary soldier due Guy I was wearing a shirt with short panties and shoes wearing a sword on the belt and a hat (89). Hand-coloured copper engraving, in “Images historiques des costumes des principaux peuples de l'Antiquite et du Middle Ages” by Robert Von Spalart, published in 1796. / Bridgeman Images
FLO4723960: Circassian in armor - Circassian man in helmet, chain mail tunic over skirt, with plate metal armor on his forearms and shins, carrying a musket and curved sword - Handcoloured woodcut by Doms from “” Moeurs, Uses et Costumes de tous les Peuples du Monde, Asie,”” by Auguste Wahlen, pseudonym of Jean Francois Nicolas Loumyer (1801-1875), Historical Library Artistic, Brussels, 1845 / Bridgeman Images
FLO4724342: Japanese soldier wearing helmet, jacket, short kimono, trousers and sandals, with two swords in his belt - Handcoloured woodcut by Doms from “” Moeurs, Uses et Costumes de tous les Peuples du Monde, Asie,”” by Auguste Wahlen, pseudonym of Jean Francois Nicolas Loumyer (1801-1875), Librairie Historique Artistique, Brussels, 1845 / Bridgeman Images
PCT4274028: Portrait of Joan of Arc (1412-1431) holding her sword and banner with the IHS monogram of Jesus Christ (Jesus Christ), the only portrait realized in her lifetime still preserved. It was done by a clerk, Clement de Fauquembergue, in 1429. Engraving after a 15th century miniature. This is a drawing in the margin of a register recording the elevation of the seat of Orleans on May 8, 1429. In the text it reads: “the enemies had in their company a single virgin carrying a banner”. See the full text of the original document: ref. 2015114 / Bridgeman Images