Gugler
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The Guglers were a body of mostly English and French knights who as mercenaries invaded Alsace and the Swiss plateau under the leadership of Enguerrand VII de Coucy during the Gugler War of 1375.
The Bernese attack on Fraubrunnen Abbey, from the Spiezer Chronik (1485). The Guglers, recognizable by their hooded helmets, had entrenched themselves in the abbey. Bernese troops summoned to reinforce the local population defeated the Guglers and set fire to the abbey, which suffered great damage as a result.
The eponymous hundsgugel (c. 1375–1400)
Bascinet
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The bascinet – also bassinet, basinet, or bazineto – was a Medieval European open-faced combat helmet. It evolved from a type of iron or steel skullcap, but had a more pointed apex to the skull, and i
Gugler
…of Enguerrand VII de Coucy during the Gugler War of 1375. The term Gugler is derived from the appearance of the knights dressed for winter, wearing hounskull (German: hundsgugel) helmets and cowl-like hoods, Gugle (or Gügle) being a Swiss German term for cowl or point. During lulls in the Hundred Years' War…
Bascinet without accessories
Hounskull visor attached by a brow-mounted pivot (klappvisier)
Hounskull visor attached by side-mounted pivot
A great bascinet with a rounded visor