What's The Deal With Medieval Armor?

                     Ok, so there are a bunch of common misconceptions about the middle ages. I lightly touch on that fact here. Anyway, I thought that I would post something about one of the first things that pops into your mind when you think of the middle ages:

I've never met a dishonest pizza. 

                        Sadly this is not going to be about Round Table. Sorry for getting your hopes up. No, this blog is now about medieval armor. 

                      Okay! So misconception number one:  Plate armor was pretty much too heavy to move around in. Knights often had to be lowered onto their horses and were incredibly slow. 

FALSE! While plate armor is fairly heavy, weighing around 44-65 pounds, plate armor generally weighes less than full fireman gear.  The wearer could easily complete such tasks as mounting a horse. Plate is actually easier to move around in than chain mail, because chain mail requires stiff leather pads underneath.
                    

                      Number two! Only knights wore plate armor.

FALSE! Pretty much anyone could wear plate armor, assuming they could afford it. Which brings me to:
 
                      Number three! Only rich noble people could afford armor.

FALSE! Well, it really depended on the armor. You could buy a crudely constructed set of plate armor about the price of a few cows. On the other end, a German king bought a custom set of armor for 1,500 gold pieces (about 12x the salary of a senior court official).

                     So there you go. Now you can call your mama and officially say you know stuff about plate armor. Your welcome. Now I will leave you with this captioned photo that I couldn't fit in anywhere else:

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