EARLY, IMPORTANT AND RARE JOUSTING LANCE WITH CORONEL CIRCA 1500: For Sale

EARLY, IMPORTANT AND RARE JOUSTING LANCE WITH CORONEL CIRCA 1500:
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EARLY, IMPORTANT AND RARE JOUSTING LANCE WITH CORONEL CIRCA 1500::
$2995.00

EARLY, IMPORTANT AND RARE JOUSTING LANCE WITH CORONEL CIRCA 1500:

Introduction:Very few lances have survived because the objective of jousting was to break the wooden lance on your opponent’s armor and unmount him, thus creating aspectacle for the audience.

Broken lances were used for firewood, and those that were not quickly could rot away since they are biodegradable. As a result, few have survived. Lances from this period were almost certainly made of ash wood.
A lance swells towards the grip to accommodate a metal vamplate that protects the knight’s hand. The lance was carved with flutes (like a fuller on a sword blade) to lighten its weight but still permitthe shattering of the lance and the opponent’sto bedismounted. I have pictured several examples from the NurenbergNational Museum (Germanisches Nationalmuseum ) and the Dresden Museum(Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden ).
This rare example under discussion is the front of the lance, approximately 19 inches long, with the original coronel head (tip). The coronel was designed exclusively for the joust. Its shape was that of a crown, and it was designed not to breach the opponent’s helmet but to help splinter the lance. The lance’s original green, white, and red paint has been refreshed and mounted verticallyon a wooden stand.
Discussion:Joustingon horseback was the Medieval and Renaissance combat sport. It emulated the military use of the lance by heavy cavalry between two combatants.It was the sport of the mega-wealthy and nobility. They only used the best and most expensive equipment and horses money could buy. Participating in a joust was strictlyby invitation. Knights who participated were expected to conduct themselves under the Chivalric code. Jousting was popular from the 1500s to circa 1650.It was however, discontinued in France in 1559 after the death ofKing Henry IIin a jousting accident.
A charging horse generates a lance’s power up to a monstrous 30 miles per hour! The knight’s only job is to aim and control the lance. His only concern is the impact that rebates back into him at the moment of impact.One of the reasons a lance, with its great length, is so easy to use in combat is due to an ingenious invention called thelance rest. Thelance rest is ahinged metal bracketattached to the breastplate’s upper right side with an extending arm. The purpose was to allow the mounted knight to rest the lance atop the lance rest arm and the bottom end section of the lance under the knight’s arm (armpit).
The lance rest’s ingenious design would:1) Alleviate most of the weight from a very long and heavy lance made of ash wood.2) Make aiming the lance much easier.3) Help absorb the impact throughout the knight’s upper torso when the lance connected with its target.4) Permit the knight to crouch into a smaller, more defensive, and more aerodynamic position when charging on horseback.The first illustration of a lance rest is found on the effigy of Waler von Hohen Klingen (1386) in the Schweizerisches Landes Museum in Zurich.
Provenance:From a Nobles armory collection, picture attached.

Conclusion:The armor made for jousting was the absolute best, with no expense spared. It is said that owning a jousting suit with garnitures was the equivalent in today’s dollars of owning a Boeing 777 jet.As a collector you will see very few jousting armors or jousting armor parts on the collectors market. And if they were to appear, they would be very expensive. Because of its length displaying a lance can be difficult.Here is an opportunity to own a piece of Renaissance Knightly chivalry forunder$3K and own the ultimate conversation piece that none of your friends have. ACT NOW, this one will sell !!!

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