How a Knight Could See His Opponent in This Helmet

At the exact moment the lances hit, the knight inside this helmet could not see a thing. This is the frog-mouthed helm, the Stechhelm, built for the German joust around 1500. To see his opponent, the knight leaned forward in the saddle as he charged. Then, a moment before the lances met, he straightened up. The jutting lower edge rose into his line of sight and the narrow slit vanished behind it, so no lance point could get in. 📖 Source: Christopher Gravett, Knights at Tournament, Osprey Elite The helm did not sit on his head either. It was screwed down to his breastplate so a hit could not snap his neck backwards, and inside, his head hung in a web of padded straps and knotted thongs. The rest of the harness followed the same logic. An oak shield almost three centimetres thick, tied to his chest with plaited flax cord. A breastplate cut away on the right for the lance. No leg armour at all, because a padded bumper around the horse's chest did that job. The full set in London's Wallace Collection weighs about forty kilos. The armour historian Christopher Gravett put it drily: falling off a horse in it must have been a memorable experience. He rode into the hardest hit of the day blind, and on purpose. This channel is made on musayko.com, a platform I built for creating and managing content. Timeline History runs entirely on it. Which warrior should we reconstruct next?