The Cleveland Museum of Art
Collection Online as of February 8, 2025

Hauberk
1400s
Diameter: 1.1 cm (7/16 in.); Overall: 128.3 x 91.4 cm (50 1/2 x 36 in.)
Gift of Mr. and Mrs. John L. Severance 1916.1817
Location: 210A Armor Court
Did You Know?
A hauberk might include as many as a quarter million steel rings.Description
A hauberk is a mail shirt that generally reached to the knee and was the predominant form of metal body defense throughout Europe until about 1350. Knights wore mail over a padded undergarment known as an aketon and would have been supplemented by a metal helmet and a shield. After the development of full plate armor, mail continued to be a linking element or accessory well into the 1500s.- ?-1916Frank Gair Macomber (1849-1941), Boston, MA, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art1916-The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
- Gilchrist, Helen Ives. A Catalogue of the Collection of Arms & Armor Presented to the Cleveland Museum of Art by Mr. and Mrs. John Long Severance; 1916-1923. Cleveland: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1924. Mentioned: p. 79, D8 archive.orgFliegel, Stephen N. Arms and Armor: The Cleveland Museum of Art. [Cleveland, Ohio]: The Museum, 1998. p. 36, 166, ; cat. no. 87Noel, William, and Daniel H. Weiss. The Book of Kings: Art, War, and the Morgan Library's Medieval Picture Bible. Baltimore: The Walters Art Museum, 2002. p. 86, cat. no. 27, fig. 2Fliegel, Stephen N. Arms & Armor: The Cleveland Museum of Art. [Cleveland, Ohio]: Cleveland Museum of Art, 2007. p. 186, cat. no. 87
- The Book of Kings: Art, War and the Morgan Library's Medieval Picture Bible. The Walters Art Museum, Baltimore, MD (organizer) (October 27-December 29, 2002).Armor Court Reinstallation. The Cleveland Museum of Art (organizer).
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