First time I ever saw this helmet, was in the 2001 movie ‘A Knight’s Tale’; there is a jousting scene where you see an opponent wearing one, that whole movie has a mixed bag of great and bad armour.

Every time I see this helmet type I automatically start singing "I'm a little teapot short and stout...." I just can't help it. Each time I see a person lean forward I wonder what's about to pour out of it. ;o)

In terms of articulation - I think, Michael Keaton Batman cowl for a person wearing a Frog helmet. Yes, the Batman cowl has an open face, etc - I just mean the articulation. Watching Michael Keaton move around, or arguably not be able to move around, that's probably about what it was like trying to move around in a Frog Helm.

The expression "There's more than one way to skin a cat." refers to Catfish, which have a smooth, grey skin, rather than scales which can be tricky to remove. As a result, folks came up with many different solutions. Hence, "more than one way to skin a Cat(fish)". Cheers!

Hey @Metatron you probably won't see this, but I am wondering knowing what you know now what armour sets or combination would you wear if you had to build your perfect knights armour. All rules off the table you can wear samurai helmet and chainmail shirt whatever combination you wish. I think it would be interesting to see how many different items from different years/era's you would use. Keep in mind its all about protection and offensive ability and style and looks don't matter. Love your work, you got me interested in so many things.

That sounds uncomfortable.

Thank you Jason! Very interesting insight from a man of both knowledge AND practice. I’ll let you know how The helmet fits as soon as I get it!

@@metatronyt You two MUST joust.

@@grugnotice7746 does Metatron ride?

@@StJosephsCreatineEnjoyer AFAIK no...

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There's a counter argument in that some people might of worn them in battle, there the heavyest armour you could wear. kzfaq.info/get/bejne/jL2jot2Lldqxl40.html

That would be my guess as well

Also, I would expect more artworks to be created during times of peace, as nobles at war may have more important things to do with time and money than ordering another painting, tapestry or book. I could be wrong though.

The frogmouth is literally a tournament helmet. Hence the uncomfortable weight and lack of vision, for jousting, its good because its safe, combat? Fuck that

This was my guess!

It may not have been so calculated as that. What is the likelihood that the medieval artist was actually present at any particular battle? Probably about 9%. So they would be working from written specifications and/or guesswork when executing the painting/engraving. Likely they would only have ever seen the king or knight in his finest ceremonial armor (typically a jousting set) whereas the typical knight might only have a single set of all-purpose armor which would likely be biased in favor of combat protection and flexibility.

I had these crayons too :)

Weapon fighting isn't video games either. Most of the time we can't afford injury, let alone death.

then you use brute force. halberds and numbers

@@Dejawolfs bold of you to assume this guy wouldn't bring his crew as well

You mean knights wouldn't just stop mid-combat, lift an arm, turn to the side, and say, "stab me here in the armpit my good fellow! Not much armor there ho-ho! I recommend a dirk, here, let me lend you mine!"

@@malcolmclancytv2262 Ha-ha! Tis was but a ploy! As I occupied you with my wit my dear good fellow-in-arms snuck up behind you and slit your peasant throat! Ha-Ha!

Lol, true. Tanks are basically that.

I love how his idea of the perfect suit of armour is literally just a tank.

Also don't forget that a lot of Italians still have to put their poo paper in a bin because of substandard modern plumbing.

It’s such a ridiculous enlightenment myth. Especially ironic due to the name, as if medieval architecture and philosophy had not been shaped around light much like the later enlightenment. I wonder how much they didn’t knew or if they simply choose to exaggerate for their own reasons.

Romans didn't found London. Vikings did.

@@johan.ohgren What do you mean?

@@bearistotle2820 I mean the first time London was at a status of city it was a Scandinavian who was ruling London.

I haven’t come across Dr. Capwell, I shall look him up.

Different helmets for different situations. We should assume that a person had more than one helmet if he could afford it. That flexibility is also shown in the different setups some helmets offered.

In medieval times, I can see this helm as a heavy cavalry standard. Gunpowder and all; Pike & Shot and Napolionic era would be where this helmet dissapears.

@@walangchahangyelingden8252 No, as the video states, it's designed for the joust specifically. Wearing a full face helmet limits your visibility anyway, that may be acceptable to the user in a battle, but one where you physically have to turn your entire upper body to look left or right to any degree is just going to get you killed by an unseen opponent in a melee.

@@gwtpictgwtpict4214 I got that it wasn't used in actual combat but I still do think it could work as a heavy cavalry helmet. Although, it obviously it wouldn't be ideal, especially after a charge is done visibility in messy battles becomes way more valuable; Normal helmets work fine anyway & they won't have the visibility issue.

Agreed.

Man, these are some great guesses. I thought maybe the association of kings with the frog mouth resulted in them using the frog mouth as a way of indicating this was a higher status individual.

Good possibility/s.

I doubt there were very many "poor" knights. A knight by definition was a gentleman of means - the typical peasant would never have been able to afford the armor, the war horse, the training, etc. etc.

@@chuckschillingvideos By the time of the frog helmet, peasant levies were replaced by mercenary groups (who got their equipment "leased" by a quartermaster, so those didn't rely on pre-solider income), so that's not a suitable comparison/metric. And it was, in fact, those same mercenary bands that drove a lot of lower nobility, that relied on military service for an income, into poverty.

the only thing I'd add would be glass for safety goggles to the eye slit. Obviously that wasn't an option back then and this is the only real weakness it has. maybe with modern alloys and production methods we could reduce the thickness in some parts and optimize weight but that wouldn't change the design by much.

@@LukasJampen Yes ballistic glass would be an improvement but only possible because of material improvement, not of design.

@@LukasJampen one thing that you have forgotten, is that the eye slit was also the ventilation for the helmet. Close it off and you effectively suffocate the rider. Therefore, one would have to alter the helmet to allow for adequate ventilation, elsewhere, were you to seal or make it smaller. That is the hurdle that the redesign would have to overcome.

@@Eru-Iluvatar yeah, that too. also imagine the heat.

@@Eru-Iluvatar it should be fairly easy to add some holes or slits to make ventilation possible without weakening the structure. For example on the back or side as to not weaken front protection.

Great, but it was a little later.

yeah, also most of the time these were made by people who might only have words to draw these by. like, a horse is not a never before seen thing ,yet most of their horse depictions are questionable at best.

@@gergokerekes4550 medievil depiction of horses are hilarious lol

Could just be a taxidermist.

@@DeHerg well, taxidermists are few so they are probably listed somewhere :D

@@gergokerekes4550 Meh, not really what the original comment implied, but I'll let it slide.

@@DeHerg I’d still not totally trust someone who’s inner calling is taxidermy. The amateurs are worse, obviously, but it’s an odd career choice regardless.

@@skorzalonsdale4426 My thoughts exactly. How did they become taxidermists? What were they doing when they were creepy children? And what happened to all the neighborhood cats?

There has been a massive shift to helms that don't cover the ears these days because there is so much less artillery getting thrown around and being able to hear is more important for folks mostly on patrol rather than honoring down getting hammered in a trench.

Imagine a jousting knight with this helmet dancing around in a teapot pose XD

Fairly certain peasants didn't have coats of arms. The frogmouth was rather used by the low nobility.

@@alinalexandru2466 they did, my family has one and wasn't nobility. But I'm not sure if peasant is the right English word, in talking about leading and wealthy class if city folk. Bürger in German

@@Glimmlampe1982 Bürger is burgher in English. Peasants were the ones working the fields, often also being serfs. Burghers on the other hand were the wealthy inhabitants of cities though not exactly nobility, they were close to it.

Same goes for smough's in a way technically, although that's even more different and it's also more known

And then theres the ruin sentinels and Lapp's armor

​@@puffer_frog 👇🤺

I think that's what he said.

actually an NFL helmet wouldn't be too out of place on a battlefield. remember NFL players still need to be aware of their surroundings, where are my team mates, where are the opponents, where is the "ball" so it allows for (in my opinion too much) articulation of the neck and good visibility, they are design to handle repeated abuse as well. design wise it's not too much different from the helmets you see a soldier wearing maybe a few decades ago. a better comparison would be to compare a motorcycle helmet to one used on a battlefield, the modern motorcycle helmet is made to protect you from ONE serious impact (because it is designed to break crack and deform as a way to absorb energy) and it does that perfectly well, but it would be awful on a battlefield because you don't get a lot of air in there, the screen gets dirty, you can't see and you want a battlefield helmet to not be destroyed in one use.

@@windhelmguard5295 An NFL helmet is still more focused on absorbing shock damage instead of penetrating damage. Which is also the focus of a motorcycle helm. The motorcylce helm needs less breathing and perephiral sight but must be able to absorb shocks at a bit higher speeds. So three helmets with different applications.

I think they look really ugly. Useful? Sure. But absolutely hideous compared to an armet or a closed helm

@@wimmer3324 I don’t think the Frogmouth is ugly but I think the Great Helm and Armet are cooler, more effective, and look majestic. Just my opinion.

Same with Leonidas and the rest of the Spartans, idk if their badassery outweighs the boy loving.

@@ufc990 lol! Although to be careful as much of the "boy loving" is a myth

@@LeonidasSparta-Fun-History When it comes to Sparta, no it was practically if not actually part of the agoge. Erastes and eromenos. Institutionalized boy loving. But hey a lot of the other Greeks loved them some sodomy and frottaging and the Romans thought it great as well. Martial is well known for having mocked his wife when she offered him her anus, claiming hers was in no way a fair trade for a boys. So the Spartans weren't too gay for their time, just ours.

BY YOUR COMMAND! 😁

Goodness gracious, I hope so!

What kind of project? I'm a author on my spare and I get inspiration from anime, video games and movies. Very rarely tv shows

@@vincenttumblin5621 the idea is a big multimedia project. Currently it is just a series of novels. But with the help of my audience, eventually I plan to get it adapted to anime, manga, and videogames.

@@SergioLeonardoCornejo awsome!

@@vincenttumblin5621 yup.

@Ionas the one which sends me fan art of my characters, loser. I don't even know who you are.

😂 as a french, I can only thank you for these additions to my english vocabulary ^^ I just read that "Not enough room to swing a dead cat around" is refering to a kind of whip, so I don't know if it's better or worse than a real cat...

@@Yougaljuboja Mon plaisir madame, est-ce qu'il y a un également bizarre expression en français? Je connue que les italiens disent "À la bouche de loup" pour "Bon chance," mais je ne connue pas un bon expression français que je peux traduire littéralement à confuser les autres américains.

Oh, how did you learn french ? Yes we also have a weird (and filthy) expression that we say instead of "bonne chance"... it's literally "merde" ^^ In the 19th century, when a theater piece was sucessful, it means that a lot of ppl were coming with horse-drown carriage and that the horses would have to stop in front of the theater for a bit, so the actors wished themselves "une grosse merde"... and it stayed. Feel free to use this classy french expression in your daily life : a job interview, a romantic date, a big announcement 😅😆 I guess it will paired perfectly with "pardon my french" 😉

NFL players don't have peripheral vision either, and have to move to their heads to see. But mostly they aren't French or British thought.

That's an amazing story! It's always cool to hear about history like this.

@@cjmunnee3356 oh wait….. here is THE best story of my ancestors on Colonial Louisiana….. my 6x Great grandfather’s daughter married and had two boys with her husband but due to complications in childbirth she went blind and not long after her husband died. She saw several medical “experts” and traveled to France with her Father and uncle to seek an “advanced” second opinion on treatment. These French experts decided that since she lost her eyesight in childbirth it was decided that she could regain her eyesight by another childbirth. However, she is a young blind, wealthy widow. So she decided she would marry Her Uncle! Yep her Father’s Brother but she needed permission from the Catholic Church in Rome. That process (likely along with a most generous monetary donation of course) took many months before the official document granting a medical dispensation from the Roman Curia based upon the French Doctor’s medical opinions arrived from Rome. In the meantime she got pregnant and went through childbirth and delivered a baby boy, she married her Father’s Brother, and never regained her eyesight so the French Physicians were wrong. Now that’s a really good story!

@@Aswaguespack Dude! Your family did some stuff! I love stories from way back like this. It makes you think about things.

Henry VIII's first Field of Gold suit. The one that was banned for not meeting the competition rules. No voids, 100% coverage over backs of legs, knees, armpits, groin, etc. An amazing piece of work we still have today. The second suit he had to use is pretty rocking to.

The fact it's not as humane and fully metal i feel is what contributes to its reputation of being both so intimadating and silly, even its "fashion value"... It fits on some outfits very well and very terribly on others, no in-between, hence also why most people tend to have such divisive ideas about even among tbe individual(people saying they love it one moment and hate it the other)

Hey I watched the video too!

You have to learn to rest forwards and trust the armour/helmet for support.

Thank you!