Triumph of Emperor Maximilian. No 53 - Hans Burgkmair about 1516-1519

Reproduction of plate 53. Five men on horseback, with a square slab of wood mounted on the breastplate.

Quote from Triumph of Maximilian 1 - published by The Holbein Society:
"The Breastplate course, 35 a rank of five men. The course in the Gaspar Wintzer style,36 a rank of five men, carrying targets and drayoires. The Vamplate course, a rank of five men with elmets.

35 The stroke was delivered on a breastplate, which the tilter wore attached to his chest. It consisted of a square piece of wood surrounded by a border and ornamented with embossed work. In place of this it was sometimes covered with open iron-work, which they called simply the Grit (Rost). As the champions fought with bare heads, and were only armed with a cuirass, this kind of course was extremely dangerous. It was their custom to place a coffin in the tilting ground before the champions undertook the course.

36 This Gaspar Wintzer is mentioned by Fugger amongst the combatants in a tourney given by Maximilian at Vienna in 1515, in the place called Am Hofe. —“Ehrenspiegel,” p. 1335.”

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