sabaton or solleret is part of the knight armor that covers the legs.
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History
Fourteenth and fifteenth-century Sabatons usually end up at a point sharply past the actual toe of the wearer, following the fashionable shapes of the fourteenth century. The Sabatons of the first half of the sixteenth century ended up on the toes and probably wider than the actual legs. They are the first armor worn, and made of a fixed iron plate called lames . These plates generally just cover the top of the foot. Some sources argue that the broad variant is the actual sabaton, while the previous version should be referred to as solleret.
At least in theory, the French prince and duke were permitted to have radius of 2 feet (0.76 m) long, 2-foot noble (2-foot-tall and 2-foot long) and nobles only 1 foot (0.30 m) long.
Sabaton is not commonly used by knights or men who are fighting on foot. Conversely, many will only wear leather shoes or boots. Heavy metal footwear or spikes will severely inhibit movement and mobility in the soil, especially under wet or muddy conditions. An attack on the foot is not common in a downed battle, because an attack to an enemy's foot will usually place the attacker in a very awkward and vulnerable position. Instead, the knight's feet are set to be at perfect altitude for the attack of the descending soldiers, and so sabatons or other foot protectors will be important when fighting. An earlier solution is to chain letters from chausses to completely cover the feet, but then the letter ends up at the ankles, either overlapping outside the sabaton or stretching beneath it.
The statue of Richard Beauchamp, the 13th Earl of Warwick at St Mary's College Church, Warwick, shows how a 15th-century Italian style sabaton will be worn. It consists of a foot cap, four articulated lames, a foot plate and ankle plate, and a hinged heel cap, joined by a strap. Although the spurs are missing from the statue, the remnants of the nail holes and staples may represent the way that the spurs will be attached directly to the lid of the heel of the sabaton, rather than tied afterwards.
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Other uses
Sabaton is also the name of a wide Flemish shoe type, popular in the late Middle Ages.
References
Source of the article : Wikipedia
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