Demi-lancer
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The demi-lancer or demilancer was a type of heavy cavalryman in Western Europe during the 16th and early 17th centuries.
1548 portrait of Emperor Charles V as a demi-lancer by Titian; his lance is of a lighter type than was typical.
c. 1600–1615 painting of a dragoon, demi-lancer and cuirassier by Sebastiaan Vrancx
1498 illustration of a German demi-lancer by Albrecht Dürer
Man-at-arms
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A man-at-arms was a soldier of the High Medieval to Renaissance periods who was typically well-versed in the use of arms and served as a fully-armoured heavy cavalryman. A man-at-arms could be a knigh
Demi-lancer
…parlance, especially in England, to designate cavalrymen mounted on unarmoured horses, armed with a slightly lighter version of the heavy lance of a man-at-arms and wearing three-quarter or half-armour, in contrast to the full plate armour of the man-at-arms or gendarme, who rode barded mounts. The cuirass…
Armour of an early 16th-century man-at-arms
English man-at-arms, funerary brass c. 1431
Fully armoured gendarmes from the Italian Wars (mid 16th century).