Horse Armor

The predominant factor that made a knight a "knight" was the fact that he was mounted on a horse. This changed in later centuries to the fact that a knight followed a code of chivalry. But, mounted knights were often heavily armored and of course their horses were often also armored. Here is a list of the armor that a horse would wear.

• Bard - This is the name for a complete set of horse armor.
• Crinet - Defense for the horse's neck.
• Crupper - Defensive armor covering the horse's rump.
• Flanchard - a Piece of plate armor attached to the saddle that protected the flank of a horse.
• Shaffron (Also called a Chaffron) - This is the plate armor that covered a horses head and face.
• Peytral - Armor designed to protect the horse's chest.