The Pavia Tapestries…. In Person!

[TobJohn]

Many thanks.
The monkey on the saddle, escaped from it's cage, was a rib-tickler.

The illustrious Duke Monkey, the true hero of Pavia!

 

[TobJohn]

The clothing they wore was pretty.......well.........ridiculous. I guess slits were "in".

I was looking through my saved muzzleloader images and found this particularly outrageous example.

When you need to fight the French at 5 and party in the Castro at 8!

 

[Codger Craig Wilcox]

I was looking through my saved muzzleloader images and found this particularly outrageous example.

When you need to fight the French at 5 and party in the Castro at 8!
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I thought he/she/it was auditioning for the Court Jester job opening!

Really, though, think of the fact that there were no sewing machines at the time, and try to figure how many seams were just in one pair of pants!

 

[Jaeger]

I was looking through my saved muzzleloader images and found this particularly outrageous example.

When you need to fight the French at 5 and party in the Castro at 8!
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I can read German but the lettering and 16th century spelling are throwing me off...lol. The picture title is " Musket Master" . I will check with my German friends to translate the rest.

 

[TobJohn]

I can read German but the lettering and 16th century spelling are throwing me off...lol. The picture title is " Musket Master" . I will check with my German friends to translate the rest.

if I remember correctly from a Michael Tromner post, some German gun words had different meanings in the first half of the 16th century, or fell out of use. That could make it harder

 

[Jaeger]

I was looking through my saved muzzleloader images and found this particularly outrageous example.

When you need to fight the French at 5 and party in the Castro at 8!
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if I remember correctly from a Michael Tromner post, some German gun words had different meanings in the first half of the 16th century, or fell out of use. That could make it harder

 

[TobJohn]

Amazing!!!!! It sounds like its a poem?

 

[Jaeger]

Amazing!!!!! It sounds like its a poem?

Yes...it rhymes, so actually it is. My friend in Germany had to think and work on this one, because the spelling and language and usage itself has changed since 1530, just like in English. After reading this, I think the musketeers ("gunmasters") went in first during an attack to soften up the enemy and were followed by the pikemen. This guy was one of the "forlorn (lost) league" or gunmasters.

 

[TobJohn]

Yes...it rhymes, so actually it is. My friend in Germany had to think and work on this one, because the spelling and language and usage itself has changed since 1530, just like in English. After reading this, I think the musketeers ("gunmasters") went in first during an attack to soften up the enemy and were followed by the pikemen. This guy was one of the "forlorn (lost) league" or gunmasters.

That matches what I’ve read for the role of arquebusiers in the landsknechts. A lot of sources claim that landsknechts arquebusiers were doppelsonder, so that would imply dangerous battlefield work, like a forlorn hope.

Excellent work from your friend!