[522] Albert of Aix; Raimond d’Agiles; Guibert.
[523] Mills is wrong in supposing that plate armour was not at all known before the beginning of the thirteenth century. As far back as the time of Louis the Debonair, the Monk of St. Gall gives a full description of a man in plate armour, and also mentions the barb, or iron covering of the horse.
[524] See, for these particulars, the Monk of St. Gall; Albert of Aix; Raimond d’Agiles; Fulcher; Guibert; William of Brittany; Menestrier St. Palaye; Ducange.
[525] Albert of Aix, lib. viii.
[526] Fulcher; Guibert.
[527] Albert of Aix; Fulcher; Robertus Monachus.
[528] Fulcher; William of Tyre; Albert.
[529] Ducange.
[530] Assizes par Thaumassiere.
[531] William of Tyre, lib. xviii.