From Encyclopedia
- Backplate
- Plate armour defence for the back.
- Lucerne hammer
- A staff weapon with a hammer-head balanced by a fluke, popular with Swiss infantry in both the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries.
- Volant-piece
- An English term for the reinforcing brow-piece on a helmet such as the sallet.
- Goupillon
- Steel, three-pronged horseman's flail used; head could be spiked or plain.
