French cavalry charging with lance; 12th century. He wears a steel helmet; blue cuirass decorated with gold buttons; blue escutcheon with gold fleurs de lys; lance; gauntlets; cuisses; greaves and spurs. The horse has a crimson velvet saddle and gold caparison. From a French manuscript in the Barberini library; Rome. Handcoloured copperplate drawn and engraved by Leopold Massard from French Costumes from King Clovis to Our Days; Massard; Mifliez; Paris; 1834.