French crossbowman; 13th century. He wears a salade or sallet helmet; and a jaque (shirt) made of armoured deer skin (leather reinforced with wire). He carries a sword and crossbow; and wears long pointed shoes (cracows or poulaines). Handcoloured copperplate drawn and engraved by Leopold Massard from French Costumes from King Clovis to Our Days; Massard; Mifliez; Paris; 1834.