I've gotten a couple of requests for definitions of some of the more obscure parts of armour and armaments I've mentioned in the story. Sorry for all the confusion! And thank you, everyone, for paying attention enough to care! ;-)
Words to Know:
Arming doublet - Clothing worn under armour
Aventail - neck-guard
Besagues - circular shields on cuirass protecting the armpit
Bevor - chin and neck guard
Caltrop - illegal 4-spiked throw, designed to cripple horses and knights
Cantle - back of saddle
Charnel - raised decoration on breastplate
Coronel - decorative end of blunted lance
Crinet - armoured neck guard for destrier
Crupper - armoured haunch guard for destrier
Cuirass - body armour
Cuisse - thigh armour
Destrier - Warhorse
Escutcheon - shield upon which a coat of arms is displayed
Fauld - skirt of cuirass
Gardbrace - shoulder reinforcing plate
Greave - shin armour
Letters Patent/Patents of Nobility - written proof of the nobility of an individual
List - tournament grounds
Manifer - lower arm armour
Numnah - pad under saddle
Palfrey - light riding horse
Pauldron - shoulder armour
Peytral - chest guard for destrier
Poleyn - knee armour
Pommel - end of hilt of sword
Polder-mitten - elbow-flange for deflecting lance’s blow, on right arm
Quintain - swinging device, fitted with a shield and a weight, to train knights to joust
Rondel - guard on hilt of dagger to protect the hand
Rouncey - hackney, lower class riding horse
Sabaton - shoe armour
Shaffron - armoured face guard for horse
Tilt - wooden barrier separating charging horses during a joust
Vambrace - arm armour
Vamplate - hand guard on lance