Lorenz Helmschmied or "Helmschmid" was a German armourer and a member of the Helmschmied family of armourers from Augsburg. He was one of the primary armourers to the Habsburg court of the Holy Roman

The Helmschmied family of Augsburg were one of late medieval and Renaissance Europe's foremost families of armourers. Their name, often spelled Helmschmid in historical sources, modern scholarship, an