gardbrace

plural gardbraces

1. A piece of armor which augments the pauldron in protecting the shoulder.

   1963, Sean Morrison, Armor, Ty Crowell Company Some plates were bent up at the edges, or “turned.” Turns were made at the top of the breastplate and around the armholes. The top edges of the pauldrons were turned until the gardbraces were added. Then the turn was added to them.

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   In the case of both Real Armería a16 and Kunsthistorisches Museum hjrks1 the right pauldron has a gardbrace that could conceivably get ripped off, especially if the coronel of the opponent's lance caught the leading edge.

   2010, Noel Fallows, Jousting in Medieval and Renaissance Iberia, Boydell Press, →ISBN, page 205

   By far the most common type in use at this passage of arms were pauldrons reinforced with gardbraces and with a slightly flanged or winged hautepiece, or pauldrons reinforced with large rondels. […] large rondels over their left pauldron and two (top row centre; bottom left) are wearing fitted gardbraces similar to ...

   2010, Noel Fallows, Jousting in Medieval and Renaissance Iberia, Boydell Press, →ISBN, page 87

   Other features included symmetrical couters attached by arming points and symmetrical pauldrons, often with reinforcing plates (gardbraces).

   2011, Mike Ingram, Battle Story: Bosworth 1485, The History Press, →ISBN

   The pauldron showing long, pointed articulation lames that enable […] Additional reinforcing plates (gardbraces), which […]

   2013, Paul F Walker, History of Armour 1100-1700, Crowood, →ISBN

   […] carried it away on his lance point, and Saintré struck him high on his gardbrace and buckled it and the couter, and tore away the arming-points, and the gardbrace flew to the ground, and at that the cheers of the crowd and the braying […]

   2014, Antoine de La Sale, Jean de Saintre: A Late Medieval Education in Love and Chivalry, University of Pennsylvania Press, →ISBN, page 106