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Looking through Ian Heath's AMAv2, he makes an interesting comment on the cavalry supplied by the Duc de Lorraine to the Swiss, in that they would be very similar to the cavalry figure illustrated from "Das Mittelalterliches Hausbuch" (no 118 if anyone has the book).

Would this be an accurate statement, and would the Lorrainer contingent therefore be better represented by the cavalry/lighter men-at-arms classification found in other late medieval lists? (like Medieval German City States).

Interesting point.

Certainly at Morat the Lorrainers do seem to be a mix of Gendarmes types and much lighter types.

If there's knights in there, what would they be graded as if cavalry? Average is the usual for these troop types in other lists.

Of course, I don't know the accuracy of Heath's statement. Karsten is the expert on the region and period, I believe.

peterrjohnston wrote:Looking through Ian Heath's AMAv2, he makes an interesting comment on the cavalry supplied by the Duc de Lorraine to the Swiss, in that they would be very similar to the cavalry figure illustrated from "Das Mittelalterliches Hausbuch" (no 118 if anyone has the book).

Would this be an accurate statement, and would the Lorrainer contingent therefore be better represented by the cavalry/lighter men-at-arms classification found in other late medieval lists? (like Medieval German City States).

He only supplied cavalry once - '5000 elite cavalry' is the total information we have As they were raised at short notice they were probably from his 8000 strong personal force of Italian mercenary gendarmes.
At other battles the Swiss were mercenaries fighting for Lorraine or the Confederation.

Heavy cavalry of the period were much of a muchness...

Tom..