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Paskal Supporting Member of TMP16 Jan 2019 2:52 a.m. PST

Color of scarves during the FWOR.

Does anyone know the colors of the scarves worn by the Landsknecht and the Reiters taken to France by Wolfgang of Bavaria, Duke of Deux-Ponts?

In 1569, during the Third French War of Religion, at the head of an army of German mercenaries, he led an expedition to help the Huguenots.

This army crosses Burgundy and the provinces of the center of France, destroying alas on its way, many churches and abbeys.

She will make the junction with the troops of Coligny at Châlus in June 1569, a few days after his death in Nexon, June 11, 1569 …

Daniel S16 Jan 2019 3:26 a.m. PST

As Zweibrücken was acting as a military enterpriser for the Huguenots rather than as a traditional ally his troops would most likely have followed the traditional principle of wearing the colour of the hiring state or party. His contract does not seem to have mentioned the colour of field signs to be used but this could be a case of there being no need to put it down in writing or the historians who have quoted the agreement have not bothered to include that part. (I have only seen summaries of the text rather than full text of the agreement)

Paskal Supporting Member of TMP16 Jan 2019 11:17 p.m. PST

I read somewhere, a long time ago, that the scarves of his troops were yellow and black until the battle of Moncontour?

For Zweibrücken it would be Black and yellow scarves with a black band on a yellow band or a yellow band on a black band? In the sense of the length I guess?

But impossible to find an iconographic representation …

At the battle of Moncontour, all the huguenot infantrymen, the huguenot horsemen without mandilles (the commoners like the mounted arquebusiers ), the Reiters and the Landsknecht wear their white shirts over their armor or their jackets so more need of scarves, the noble huguenots horsemen do not need it because they always have their white mandilles.

So there are no scarves at the battle of Moncontour in the huguenot army?

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