Gasmouli (Γασμούλοι) were called the offspring of the marriages between Latin soldiers and Greek women during the Latin period which followed the first fall of Constantinople.

It's the middle ages yet the byzantine armor still looked Romanesque. You can see a direct lineage in style from the days of Augustus.

No pre modern military illustration is complete without the late great Angus McBride.

Good video. In the future, have you ever thought of doing a video on Byzantine cuisine? It seems that the topic is relativley not as well known compared to other cultures.

Great video again. By the way, i also love the Soul Calibur 2 OST track at the end of the video. One of my favs.

Good vedio as always！Finding this channel is probably one of the best thing for me in this year.

Me thinking that Suleman the Magnificent popularized the onion hat This video- "hohohoohnonononono!"

Great video!

Excellent choice of intro music

Thank you so much, I've been looking for information on this for the past 5 months.

great job as usual . Glad that you coment about the influence of the Catalan Company , so often negleted

As always, great video. Just one question: do you think there were any wealthy areas in Byzantium during the 13th-15th centuries, or at least an area with potential?

Great Channel, keep it going I need to know more about the eastern roman empire

👍This is another great video.

Better late than never! Great video!

Awesome video man:) I'm new to the Byzantine / Eastern Romans history but you have helped me so much

Paint was maybe so the sun doesnt reflect in the sun light ?!

Amazing video as usual! In all your research about the Eastern Romans do you know of any information on their swordsmanship? Did they have a unique form like the German and Italian schools?

can you make one on the early and middle byzantine periods pls :)

Thank you. Gives me ideas for painting up my Fireforge Byzantine figures and the problem with Byzantine figures is when is that plausible. You could have a figure from 400 AD, 1000AD and 1400AD and say they are Byzantine.

@ERH, I was watching this video again and a question came up with me. Is it just me, or does the armor of this late Byzantine armor seem very similar to armor seen in earlier periods such as under the 10th to 12th centuries? The overgarment, chainmail, kite shield (which I remember reading somewhere that the kite shield was possibly a Roman introduction in the 10th century), gambeson, kettle hat, aventails, barding, greaves, boots, shoes, and patees I've read being mentioned in books and in online sources, albeit the names may have differed. The cuirass (seen in the center at 2:00), gorget, the small (relatively speaking) round shield, conical helms (noted at 5:00) are the only items I could note as not having been used in earlier periods. Similarly I noticed there was no mention of plate armor as seen in western Europe (although I can imagine this was outside the fiscal means of all but the wealthiest of nobles, pronoia, and foreign mercenaries). As I said before though, this is a great video. Thank you so much for making this video and sharing this information.

Can we talk about a unique LATE Byzantine army with a unique type of armament when the army was with range around 2000-3000 soldiers hardly supported by mercenaries from the west - the catalans, serbians, the green baron Amadeus VI - Count of Savoy, hungarians and venetians? I do not think it is correct to recreate the late Byzantine armament on the basis of frescoes from monasteries. And mostly monasteries with date from the 15th century and located in Serbia (for example in your video at 1:55 it's from Manasijev Monastery). Why is the problem? Because they are influenced by the Palaeologus era, when archaism in the depiction of saints returned to fashion while the Serbian army uses heavy Western weapons such as Western European powers when the monastery of Manasija appeared. Check the serbian coins and military coats of arms from XIV-XV century - the great helmet is absolutely everywhere and not only - coat of plates, bascinets and much more. Also the archeological finds - the helmets from Branichevo showing western fashion since the 12th-13th century (it was part of Bulgaria at that time, but anyways, it's part of the byzantine sphere of culture) The same type of helmet was found near Pernik, also barbutes and bascinets (4:45, 6:18). Manuscript from Athos, XIV century and the helmet is bascinet style again. 'If you look at the frescoes in the Byzantine cultural range(when the Latin empire was still active, for example, the Boyana Church in Bulgaria) before the Palaeologus era, you will see a typical Western armament as a cervellierre and other western kind armors and weapons. I don't think they were some kind of different equipped soldiers than average western army, especially after 1261.

I can imagine how hard for Manuel II and jhon in the 1400's to equip a whole army witch so litle money ...$$$

just a quick question. Do you think that the byzantines had some sort of plate armour influenced by the West?

Did Byzantine elites paint their cuirasses like Augustus sculpture any artwork colors designs and decorations also similar to Medieval European Surcoats ?

Do you know who drew the picture at 1:11 ?

To be honest, I'm of the group that would like to see the linguistic shift from the use of Byzantine/Byzantium to Rhomanian--considering the circumstances. Rhomanian would still acknowledge them as Roman, but 'distance' them enough from the previous forms of the Roman Empire.

So no lamellar or scales like every video game has em in. So they had mongols armour. I see. Rise of the tomb raider was accurate then

Steel, 'cooked' in oil produces a dark hue *('bluing')* , preventing rusting. The purpose of the gambeson on top of mail or even plate piece would have been _to soften _*_blunt trauma, caused by maces_* - in use since the Sassanid and Roman 'clibinarii' as a powerful counter against unpadded mail. [By that point, the Nova Roman knight was capable of channeling 'orgon'... ] It is plausible that neither the Mongols nor the late Romans used plate as it is unforgiving in the scorching, arid Levante, causing heatstrokes. [You keep spelling 'lamellar' as _lemmellar_ - is there a Sesame Street spelling song ?... ] (almost) kzfaq.info/get/bejne/qZuphb2Atpmph30.html

Do you maybe have The Teachings of Theodorus Palaiologus of Monferat in pdf? I could not find it anywhere...