Medieval Helmets in the Wallace Collection - Iron Hat, Barbuta & Sallet

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Medieval Helmets in the Wallace Collection - Iron Hat, Barbuta & Sallet - with Augusto Boer-Bront

[@StutleyConstable]

Watching these has helped me realize how much I do not know about the history of armor and warfare in general.

[@capcamouflage]

The Barbuta has stitching holes to attach a cloth cover over. This was done on less expensive un polished helmets like this. 50-70% of the cost of armor war polishing, so if you couldn't afford it you would get black armor and paint it or cover it in cloth. Very cool!

[@blueband8114]

Wish this was longer. Very enjoyable.

[@myWoWclips]

Really enjoying the vids you two put together

[@jakestephens4414]

fantastic vid. thanks for doing these informal museum pieces.

[@antivalidisme5669]

"There'are a lady and a guy watching us Matt, they don"t seem very cheerful" "OK let's play the serious arms and armour nerds this time Augusto, no codpiece, no penetration, only chicks I mean cheeks"

[@richmayo2266]

When did the internal suspension develop in helmets? I read that the Romans just used padding, but the medieval helmets seem to universally "float" away from the head.

[@ArmouredProductions]

Sallets are my personal favorite. It works with lots of different types of armors and protection. It was used by warriors all across the spectrum. Low rank and file soldiers with gamebesons, archers, and all the way up to full plate armored knights.

[@williamsullivan7818]

Very good video.

[@gastonjaillet9512]

Very well Mat, your french is getting better and better, no kidding ! ( I'm french)

[@zoukatron]

Taken in the context of it's time, the barbute/barbuta does look like a very odd throwback. Taken as an art object in its own right, the barbute is my favourite helmet, especially the very Corinthian looking examples we see in the Wallace Collection.

[@John_14v6]

They are a favorite of mine not because of the looks but because they are the perfect compromise between protection and being able to see clearly + breathe easily.

[@neutronalchemist3241]

To me the barbuta is a better compromise than the sallet. The sallet, like the barbuta started as a cheap one-piece helmet for infantry, then, due to it's success, and the fact that it doesn't offer enough protection for the lower part of the head in its basic form, it became more and more complex, until the wearer should have very well worn an armet instead. The barbuta instead started and remained an one-piece helmet for infantry, varying only the dimension of the opening.

[@omariscovoador7486]

I love the look of the barbuta, looks evil and strong, and also its a line in between having a open-face helmet and a full closed one, wich is good, i think they would still protect a lot without sacrificing too much vision and breathing

[@Dominator046]

Obligatory 'this early' joke. Last time I was this early, Tabars were titled under Codpieces. And, next time I'm this early, Matt will have been exploring the vaults of Wallace9.

[@angryasian2]

I've noticed that some of the archetypal Galloglaigh helmets looks an awful lot like barbutes. Do you know if they were inspired by the Italian design? Or perhaps imported? Or an independent line of development that happen to arrive as a similar design

[@Sirsethtaggart3505]

I could nerd out on armour all day.

[@lucasdelaguila1202]

I loved the whole eplanation about helmets, but I couldn't help but ask myself about the lobster tailed pot helmet, I know it was quite inportant during the English civil wars. Do you have any footage of these helmets from the Wallace collection?

[@williamsullivan7818]

that kettle helm reminds me of the morion helm.

[@thatchannel195]

William Sullivan greenie

[@williamsullivan7818]

Thank you for informing me.

[@williamsullivan7818]

LNB KS Yes I am not the the most informed of the armor of the late medieval age and renaissance. Do you really think that you needed to say that. think on that.

[@kenibnanak5554]

Wondering if you will mention those very wide swords in the cabinet behind you. :)

[@psygrit]

Loving this type of videos! Would love if you made a video about the adoption of firearms in warfare and what that entailed for older weapons. Like, when did the bow become obsolete and when did carrying a sword become just a symbol for officers? Also, why did russian streltsy use the bardiche and the musket? Why didn't they just carry a sword?

[@johnladuke6475]

Watch older videos, most of those questions he's already answered at some point. Muskets and rifles replaced bows once mass-manufacture was practical for them, but they don't become globally obsolete all at once. It depends on the culture and economy of the nation fielding the army as to whether they could mass-fire enough muskets to overwhelm the speed and accuracy of highly-trained archers. Swords were still functional even for officers carrying them as a badge of rank right up until WW1. Bardiche makes a better choice than sword both due to the greater reach of a polearm and because it acts as a prop for firing your musket.

[@erlendstang6531]

I'd really like to see more armour and weaponry from the 15th century.

[@viridisxiv766]

i was going to throw away my old helmet, but i decided to sallet instead....

[@kajsfnv]

Hi Matt. I was wondering if you could do a video about what the sources ( if any exist ) say about the way spears were used in a large scale battle in the saxon/viking period. I was watching your video on polearms and this question just occurred to me as Hollywood loves to show battle scenes using swords, or in the case of "Vikings", axes yet I am lead to believe that spears were the most common weapon used by all sides at this time and I had assumed that they were used in conjunction with the equally popular shield wall. None of the artwork or information I have seen suggests it was like the old hoplite formation but as per your polearm video they seem impossible to use if you have a shield ? Sorry if this is a dumb question but I have never seen it accurately portrayed or described anywhere and I can't imagine any other way of using it ( with a shield ) than overarm in say a less structured version of a greek phalanx

[@kajsfnv]

....... I did a pretty crap job of explaining my question. Obviously the way you use a spear with a shield as an individual is clearly seen in hoplite combat, I was more asking about how the older greek system compared to the saxon period at an overall concept ie: closely packed overlapping shield with rear ranks pushing providing overall momentum to the phalanx. Was saxon era warfare using the spear as the predominant weapon basically the same ?

[@daaaah_whoosh]

I'm still looking to buy myself a medieval helmet, I'm stuck between a sallet and a kettle hat with eye-holes. I want something that could work for a long period of history, and can be easily worn without a lot of moving parts (also because moving parts are expensive). I really wish they'd just picked one simple helmet and worn it for four hundred years, that would've made it a lot easier.

[@WardancerHB]

a kettle hat was worn for quite a long time. A simple one, affordable to not-so-well-off people

[@spookyshark632]

Sallets are my favorite helmet.

[@Riceball01]

Was that Dr. Capwell in the background towards the end of the video? I saw a jacketed figure (from the back) that looked to be roughly the same general height and build and by the end you could hear someone talking and, to me, it sounded a lot like Dr. Capwell.

[@Valkanna.Nublet]

I thought the same. I was going to comment and ask but you beat me to it.

[@alinalexandru2466]

Yes,I think that is Dr. Capwell,I think you can also kinda hear him talking at around 3:44

[@EdHunter55]

It did sound a lot like him.

[@grimmriffer]

Needs more codpieces!!

[@rDnhey]

Great!

[@aldor9357]

Sallet 4 life

[@edi9892]

Cabasset and Morion FTW!

[@edi9892]

knightshousegames not bad, but I'd prefer open faced ones.

[@barbute3684]

*inarticulate yelling*

[@stingray7849]

Where are you guys. That place looks amazing

[@scojo6373]

Why were Sallet helmets an hourglass shape and not just dome with a flare at the bottom?

[@nathanhunt9105]

I'm enjoying these videos on the Wallace collection with your comments. But who's the guy you're with? I might have missed you saying his name.

[@CZProtton]

I would love to learn more about the kettle hat, do you know a good source? I want to order a kettle hat from a Czech armoursmith, but it is hard to find examples of early kettlehats. The one I need should be about 1400 to 1440.

[@bjornnilsson5842]

Why does some english speakers say Salle' like it's some french loan word? I believe the French have their own word for sallets (Salade or something) and I think you'll be excused if you say the english word in and english manner.

[@mlewis3871]

It's even weirder because he pronounces bascinet correctly.

[@markusjack9208]

is this Tobias Capwell in the backround?

[@aronk8810]

Important lesson here: Always cover your cheeks.

[@yoshi658]

Oh I see the mount and blade greatsword

[@FalseEdgeHEMA]

This video had only a passing refrence to the salet, but included them as the thumbnail. This is clickbait

[@scholagladiatoria]

Ok.

[@WarriordotX]

"Wallace9"

[@dgh6g33gf]

He can't even be bothered anymore...

[@ModernFossilOuttakes2004]

I have a question for anyone that knows could barbuta helms have visors because whenever I look them up I keep seeing them with visors which I believe is from the game for Honor but I can’t be sure

[@neutronalchemist3241]

The only known example of visored barbuta is a fake made in the 19th century by mixing two different helmets (museums used to do those things at the time). the very purpose of the barbuta is to offer enough protection for the entire head without the complexity (and expense) of mobile parts.

[@solitude731]

You should make Augusto your little Asian assistant to your Indiana Jones.

[@dgh6g33gf]

little asian assistant as in an archetype.

[@Arcsinner]

In all honesty, though, Augusto's English is extremely good!

[@doobermanpincher]

Pretty sure Augusto is already Dr. Capwell's 'Short Round'. Which brings up the question, who would win in a fight, Easton or Capwell? Place your bets!

[@jancz357]

Capwell because he's fighting on horse, Matt is foot soldier :D

[@wierdalien1]

bloodygentleman easton because he isnt a yankee.

[@steelwarrior105]

Dammit, German doesn't spell words with useless letters. Sallet with a T. Also German also liked their articulated tails

[@00Trademark00]

Sallet is called Schaller in German. Sallet is not a German word, it probably is an English mutation of a French word.

[@steelwarrior105]

00Trademark00 huh, ilapl my German buddies use the the word sallet, guess they find it easier since it's more universal maybe?

[@00Trademark00]

@SteelWarrior115: de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schaller_(Helm) "Schaller (auch Salade, Celate, Celata, Salet, Salett)". But the names in brackets are simply the names used in several other countries (I don't know where Celate and Salett is supposed to be used though, I think that Salett is a misspelling of Sallet and Celate sounds a little Portuguese to my ear, but Portuguese wiki does not list the helmet at all). Of course even as a German you can call it Celata (Italian wiki curiously lists an armet under the word Celata, but I think that is probably a mistake - Wikipedia, especially the non-English mutations, is not always quite reliable in historical articles). Similarly, on the English speaking Internets it seems to be be relatively common nowadays to say "Zweihänder" (except that the "z" should be pronounced like "Ts" not like "z" is pronounced in English, so it always makes me cringe a bit when English speaking KZbinrs use the term) even though there exists a perfectly fine English term for it - greatsword. So if your friends always hear the word Sallet on KZbin and on English-speaking forums, they might be using that themselves. But the proper German term would be Schaller (pronounced roughly as shaller in English). Also, as you mention, they'd have to explain what they mean whenever talking to most non-German speakers. By the way, in Czech it is called šalíř, which is roughly pronounced as "shalirs" ("ř" is a sound which only exists in Czech - something between "r" and "sh". Clearly that comes from the German schaller (as do quite a few of Czech "medieval" words).

[@steelwarrior105]

00Trademark00 thanks for the info, I'm new to Germanic language, took three years of Spanish in highschool because German wasn't offered but now I'm studying in college so I'm going to change to German. I feel you on the Zwei sound, it was difficult for me to make myself add that t sound to it.

[@00Trademark00]

German is probably the hardest Germanic language for English native speakers to learn, since it is has kept grammatical cases and has 3 grammatical genders. It also has a rather peculiar word order which takes some time to get used to. But it should not be terribly hard, especially if you have German friends who you can practice with. For me personally, the hardest thing about German was and to a degree still is is remembering which word has which grammatical gender. While in Romance languages this is straightforward and even in Slavic languages it is fairly easy (albeit they also have 3 genders), German dialects went through a shift in the middle ages where the word endings which denote the gender often disappeared and so usually you just have to learn it by heart (safe for a few gendered suffixes which are still preserved in modern high German), there is not much logic to it. On the other hand, high German is otherwise more regular than Spanish. By the way, just to clarify (although perhaps you know it already) - Czech is not a Germanic language, it is a Slavic language but has been influenced quite a bit by German due to history of the Kingdom of Bohemia as a part of the Holy Roman Empire (which was dominated by German dialect speaking duchies, although it should not be seen as "medieval Germany" - parts of modern day Italy, Benelux as well as the entirety of the modern day Czech republic = Kingdom of Bohemia were member states, although northern Italy sort of drifted away from the empire over time as did the Low countries to some degree later on) as well as the inheritance of Bohemian throne by the Habsburg dynasty in the 16th century (which essentially started the Habsburg dominance of central Europe and their rise to power as probably the most powerful dynasty in the early modern Europe) and subsequent integration into the Habsburg empire.

[@KimmoKM]

I take your efforts to find new codpieces ended in vain

[@Lo-tf6qt]

You didn't hit any of them with a rolling pin? SHAME ON THOU

[@ransompurvis4245]

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