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The final step was the discarding of the “camail” and the introduction of the “armet.”

It was generally formed of small overlapping rings of plate, and attached either to the body armour or to the armet.

And now he showed me pieces of armour, that is, a vizored headpiece or armet, with cuirass, backplates, pauldrons and vambraces, all very richly gilded, the which it seemed he had chosen for my defence.

The burgonet, often confused with the armet, is the typical helmet of the late 16th and early 17th centuries.

The armet was a fairly close-fitting rounded shell of iron or steel, with a movable vizor in front and complete plating over chin, ears and neck, the latter replacing the mentonni�re or beaver.