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Glengarry5 | 14 Jun 2019 2:19 p.m. PST |
I'm working on a retinue of Genoese mercenaries hired by the Teutonic knights for the Northern Crusades. My question is, would the mercenaries have worn uniform livery? If so, would the livery be that of the Teutonic Knights, the city of Genoa or particular to the mercenary company itself? |
robert piepenbrink | 15 Jun 2019 7:38 a.m. PST |
No idea. How would you like some speculation? I'd be surprised to see troops in Genoese livery unless the Teutonic Order actually contracted with Genoa. I'd be somewhat less surprised at the Knights putting people who were not part of the order in their regalia. You just might do that for ID on the battlefield. So probably if anything, their own costume, and most likely on the "everyone gets a coat of the same color" program. But that's guesswork. Do we know anything about other mercenaries working for the Order? |
Glengarry5 | 15 Jun 2019 5:08 p.m. PST |
Germans are mentioned, some with handgunnes, and a small number of English longbowmen. |
goragrad | 15 Jun 2019 10:23 p.m. PST |
If the mercenaries were part of a company that would be their livery. At least in Heath's Armies of the Middle Ages when writing of Italian crossbowmen in 1470 he states that there was uniformity within a company, although it might be be identically colored and patterned his t=rather than tunics or other garments. |
GurKhan | 17 Jun 2019 7:38 a.m. PST |
The chronicler recording the recruitment of Genoese crossbowmen in 1394 records that they came to Prussia "insigniis militaribus", which might mean that whatever "uniform" they had, they had it already before they got to Prussia – link In this case the Order contracted the Genoese via Philip of Burgundy, which opens a whole new option in terms of livery or badges… |
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