Culet (armour) explained

A culet (also spelled culette) is a piece of plate armour consisting of small, horizontal lames that protect the small of the back or the buttocks.[1] Usually a skirt of chain mail or a mail brayette was worn underneath.

This armour was also referred to as a garde de rein[2] or garde rein,[3] [4] or hoguine.[5]

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Daub. Greg. Messiah University Personal Home Pages. Pictorial Glossary of Armor Terms. dead. https://web.archive.org/web/20040222225851/http://home.messiah.edu/~gdaub/armor/picgloss.htm. 22 February 2004.
  2. Journal of the Arms and Armour Society (1989), volume 13, page 262
  3. Ivor Noel Hume, Audrey Noel Hume, The Archaeology of Martin's Hundred: Part 1, Interpretive Studies; Part 2, Artifact Catalog (2001, University of Pennsylvania Press,, pages 391, 399
  4. Harold Leslie Peterson, Arms and Armor in Colonial America, 1526-1783 (2000, Courier Corporation,, page 120
  5. Francis M. Kelly, Randolph Schwabe, A Short History of Costume & Armour: Two Volumes Bound as One (2013, Courier Corporation, : "that [armor] guarding the loins [was known as] as the HOGUINE or CULET."

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