"English Corps of Sergeants-at-Arms" Topic
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| Don Sebastian | 27 Sep 2012 12:36 p.m. PST |
Does anyone knows how would the royal escort of of Sergeants-at-Arms be dressed? I suspect that, bein a small ceremonial unit, they would have ceremonial surcoats/capes instead of amor, am I right? |
| MajorB | 27 Sep 2012 1:14 p.m. PST |
What period? "In the Tudor period, Sergeant-at-arms were required to stand before the king 'in suche fashion attired his head bare and all his Bodye armed to the feete with the armes of a knighte Ridinge with a peione (feathered dart) Roiall or mace of Silvere in his Right hande and in his Lefte hande a little Troncheane'. They were also issued with a new livery on Christmas Day from the Great Wardrobe, and this comprised a gown of ‘tawny melley' (brownish purple) with trimmings of good 'boge' (lambs' wool). "
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| Don Sebastian | 28 Sep 2012 4:04 p.m. PST |
My main focus is a bit earlier (the 13th and 14th centuries, and the early 15th), but the link was amazing! thank you.
If anyone has anything else, please post it here. |
| MajorB | 29 Sep 2012 10:02 a.m. PST |
I think the implication of the information at the link I posted is that before the Tudor period there was no specific costume for the Sergeants-at-Arms. Admittedly, that is an argument by omission, so maybe someone else can prove me wrong? |
| janner | 01 Oct 2012 12:12 p.m. PST |
I've certainly seen no evidence of a specific body by that name in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries, but I may have missed something. |
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