hauberk
English
[1] Hauberk, 15th century
Alternative forms
- hawberk
Etymology
From Middle English hauberk, from Old French hauberc, from Frankish *halsaberg (“neck-cover”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈhɔːbɜː(ɹ)k/
Noun
hauberk (plural hauberks)
- A coat of mail; especially, the long coat of mail of the European Middle Ages, as contrasted with the habergeon, which is shorter and sometimes sleeveless.
- 1786, Francis Grose, A Treatise on Ancient Armour and Weapons, page 14:
- The hauberk was a complete covering of mail from head to foot. It consisted of a hood, joined to a jacket with sleeves, breeches, stockings and shoes of double chain mail, to which were added gauntlets of the same construction.
- 1909, Charles Henry Ashdown, European Arms & Armor, page 65:
- The hauberk was to the Norman what the byrnie was to the Saxon, the chief method of bodily defence.
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- (less common) A similar shirt of scale mail, plate, leather, or other armor material.
- 1898, John Starkie Gardner, Armour in England from the Earliest Times to the Seventeenth Century, page 40:
- The habergeon is the mail in this case, and the hauberk is of plate or splint armour, while the cote-armoure is the surcoat, possibly thickly padded, as in the still-existing surcoat of the Black Prince.
- 1929, Yale University, The Excavations at Dura-Europos: Conducted by Yale University and the French Academy of Inscriptions and Letters; Preliminary Report of 1st- Season of Work ..., page 451:
- One, which was destined later to usurp the field completely, consisted of a sleeved mail or scale hauberk, probably of eastern, Iranian, origin, descending to the knees.
- 2001, Angeliki E. Láiou, Dumbarton Oaks Professor of Byzantine History Angeliki E Laiou, Angeliki E. Laiou, Roy P. Mottahedeh, The Crusades from the Perspective of Byzantium and the Muslim World, Dumbarton Oaks (→ISBN), page 277:
- In Demetrios ' portrait, the saint wears a lamellar hauberk and a long surcoat over ornately patterned leggings. The painter has added an unusual element to the composition - a scarf tied around the horse's head […]
- 2008, Robyn Young, Crusade, Penguin, →ISBN, page 460:
- Because the call to arms had come so quickly, he'd not had time to don his chain-mail armor, only a light, plate hauberk that covered his shoulders and torso.
- 2012, Martin Parece, The Cor Chronicles Volumes I, II & III, Lulu.com, →ISBN, page 240:
- The plate hauberk did not restrict his movements in the slightest, and he didn't feel weighed down as he did in Taraq'nok's chain mail.
- 2014, Martin V. Parece II, Gods and Steel: The Cor Chronicles, Vol. IV, Parece Publishing, page 77:
- Fitted perfectly for her, it consisted of a simple plate hauberk and legguards, plate armguards and sabatons with chain mail underneath. She had discarded the chain mail early, much to Parol's consternation, […]
- 1898, John Starkie Gardner, Armour in England from the Earliest Times to the Seventeenth Century, page 40:
Coordinate terms
- byrnie, habergeon, haubergeon
Translations
A coat of mail
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Middle English
Alternative forms
- auberc, haberke, hamberk, hauberc, hauberghe, haubrec, haubrecke, haubrek, hawbarke, hawbergh, hawberk, hawberke
Etymology
From Old French hauberc, from Vulgar Latin *halsbergus, from Frankish *halsaberg.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈau̯bɛrk/, /ˈaːbɛrk/, /-rɛk/
Noun
hauberk (plural hauberkes)
- hauberk (coat of mail armour)
Related terms
- hauberjoun
Descendants
- English: hauberk
References
- “hauberk, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.