cervelliere

plural cervellieres · alternative cerveliere

1. A metal skullcap.

   Of a certain quantity of leathern coats, of gorgets, cervellieres, &c. of gorgets and cervellieres two hundred and fifty.

   1821, Archaeologia: Or Miscellaneous Tracts Relating to Antiquity, page 143

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   The visored basinet of Eustace de Ribemont is indeed altogether gilt, and as there are tasseled cords which come from underneath, he has probably a cervelliere of mail attached to his camail.

   1842, S.R. Meyrick, A Critical Inquiry Into Antient Armour, as it Existed in Europe, Particularly in Great Britain, from the Norman Conquest to the Reign of King Charles II: Ill, page 24

   And they should likewise check that they have not sharpened the vervelles of the cervellieres. Furthermore they should make all the knights swear an oath that they will under no circumstance strike with them in the face […]And furthermore, if anyone's cervelliere or helm should fall off, that he not be struck until he has put it back on.

   2010, Noel Fallows, Jousting in Medieval and Renaissance Iberia, Boydell Press, →ISBN, page 4

   By 1400 it had developed into a cervelliere, or brain guard, which fitted under the bascinet. Knight c. 1320 A composite armor of mail and plate. Metal poleyns protect the knees, while the shoulder (pauldron) and forearm (lower cannon) ...

   2016, Matthew Bennett, Doyne Dawson, Ron Field, Philip Hawthornwaite, Mike Loades, The History of Warfare: The Ultimate Visual Guide to the History of Warfare from the Ancient World to the American Civil War, Chartwell Books, →ISBN, page 87

   The infantry also made an extensive use of iron hats of various kinds but also bascinets with or without camail, and little iron cap known as cervelliere. French and northern European miniatures show similar cervelliere caps (or secret) ...

   2016, Bruno Mugnai, History&Uniforms 9 ENG, Soldiershop Publishing, →ISBN

   William Longespee wears exactly the same mail pieces, including the cervelliere. The knight at Chaddesley Corbett even wears the same combination of fillet around the coif and cervelliere underneath (Figure 32).

   2017, RachelAnn Dressler, Of Armor and Men in Medieval England: The Chivalric Rhetoric of Three English Knights' Effigies, Routledge, →ISBN, page 20