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Almain rivet half-armour, typically worn by Swiss or landsknechts in the 16th century. The tassets consist of five plates each, connected by sliding rivets.
Almain rivet gauntlets of Emperor Maximilian I, c.1514. Museum of Fine Arts (Kunsthistorisches Museum), Vienna

An Almain rivet is a type of flexible plate armour created in Germany in about 1500. It was designed to be manufactured easily whilst still affording considerable protection to the wearer. It consisted of a breastplate and backplate with laminated thigh-guards called tassets.[1] Almain rivets were generally of fairly low quality, but they were cheap: a royal proclamation issued by Henry VIII in 1542 designated them at 7s 6d, which equated to one sixth of the cost of a suit of demi-lance armor.[2] Almain rivets were frequently purchased en masse as munitions-grade armour to equip royal armies or personal retinues.

Nomenclature

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The term rivet derives from the "overlapping plates sliding on rivets" characteristic of this type of armour.[3] Almain is an Early Modern English term for "German" (still used in some poetic and/or archaic senses), from the French alemanique, from the mediaeval Latin alemanicus, from Alemanni, an early Germanic tribe.[4] The term was introduced in about 1530 and remained in use until about 1600. Based on the term almain-rivet, the word rivet itself acquired a meaning of "armour", attested (rarely) during the mid-16th century.[5]

See also

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References

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  1. ^ Paul Cornish, Henry VIII's Army (Oxford: Osprey Publishing, 1987), 34.
  2. ^ Cornish, Henry VIII's Army, 34.
  3. ^ OED
  4. ^ Larousse Dictionnaire de la Langue Francaise, Paris, 1979
  5. ^ OED. Ffoulkes (1912:52) suggests that the term was from French revรชtir, to clothe in, embellish with, from Latin vestire (Larousse, op.cit.)
  • Cornish, Paul. Henry VIII's Army. Oxford: Osprey Publishing, 1987.ISBNย 0-85045-798-X
  • Ffoulkes, Charles. The Armourer and his Craft. New York: Dover Publications, 1912.ISBNย 0-486-25851-3
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Tassets

segmented style of tassets connected by sliding rivets produced during the 16th century is also known as almain rivets. From the 16th century onward, the tassets

Laminar armour

segmented armour to protect the neck, upper limbs, and hips as seen in the Almain rivet, the zischagge, falling buffe, and faulds. Laminar cuirasses were manufactured

Inventory of Henry VIII

of the store by John Lyndsay; 200 pairs of Almain rivets (front and back plates); 200 pairs of Almain rivets to the Earl of Warwick by the Lord's warrant

Gauntlet (glove)

Almain rivet gauntlets of Emperor Maximilian I, c. 1514. Museum of Fine Arts (Kunsthistorisches Museum), Vienna

Munition armour

or leather plates that were usually connected to each other by mail. Almain rivet Swiss arms and armour David (Education Team) (21 December 2017). The

Gothic plate armour

book illustration published 1483 Replica with pollaxe Greenwich armour Almain rivet Oakeshott (1980), pp.ย 75โ€“108, ch. 4. Armour: 1400โ€“1525. Blackmore, Howard

Names of Germany

the English language has also been given the Allemande (a dance), the Almain rivet and probably the almond furnace, which is probably not really connected

Swiss arms and armour

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