bevor

The word “bevor” or “beaver” is derived from Old French baver, meaning ‘to dribble’. This is a reference to the effect on the wearer of the armour during battle.

The bevor was a component of a medieval suit of armour. It was usually a single piece of plate armour protecting the chin and throat and filling the gap between the helmet and breastplate. The bevor could also extend over the knight’s left shoulder doubling the thickness of the armour.{{cite book|first1=J. P.|last1= Puype|first2=Harm |last2=Stevens|title=Arms and Armour of Knights and Landsknechts in the Netherlands Army Museum|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=5IvxPd5RZrgC&pg=PA48|year=2010|isbn=978-90-5972-413-6|page=48}}

The bevor was originally worn in conjunction with a type of helmet known as a sallet.{{cite book|first=Ewart |last=Oakeshott|title=European Weapons and Armour: From the Renaissance to the Industrial Revolution|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=NkD86JPgCS4C&pg=PA111|year=2012|isbn=978-1-84383-720-6|pages=111–113}} With the close helm and burgonet, developments of the sallet in the late medieval and Renaissance period, the bevor became a hinged plate protecting the lower face and throat.{{cite book|first=Ewart |last=Oakeshott|title=European Weapons and Armour: From the Renaissance to the Industrial Revolution|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=NkD86JPgCS4C&pg=PA121|year=2012|isbn=978-1-84383-720-6|pages=121–122;214–217}} In the 16th century, the bevor developed into the falling buffe. This was a composite piece made up of several lames protecting the lower face and throat, but which could be raised or lowered as the lames were articulated.{{cite book|editor-last=Terjanian|editor-first=Pierre|title=The Last Knight: The Art, Armor, and Ambition of Maximilian I|url= https://books.google.com/books?id=X-anDwAAQBAJ |date=2019|publisher=Metropolitan Museum of Art|isbn=978-1-58839-674-7|page=308}}{{Cite book|last=Kirkland|first=J. Michael|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ZH-LdKS-zyQC|title=Stage Combat Resource Materials: A Selected and Annotated Bibliography|year=2006|isbn=978-0-301-30710-7|page=267}}

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• [http://www.myarmoury.com/othr_sallet.html The bevor's description on myarmoury.com]
• [http://libmma.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/p15324coll10/id/135959 The Art of Chivalry : European arms and armor from the Metropolitan Museum of Art : an exhibition], Issued in connection with an exhibition in 1982 at The Metropolitan Museum of Art

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