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 *quoted inventory of the armaments of Louis X, le Hutin, King of France; for among the various apparel appears:— Item, uns pans et uns bras de jazeran d'acier.

Item, un jazeran d'acier.

Item, une couverture de jazeran de fer (horse armour). Item, 3 paires de couvertures gamboisées des armes le roy et unes indes jazeguenée.

Showing body armour that could be classed as jazerant Hradschin Palace, Prague

Made for Francesco Maria I della Rovere, Duke of Urbino. The work of the brothers Negroli of Milan, about 1530 Imperial Armoury, Vienna

The last item shows the use of the word as an adjective; for, though we have the three pairs of horse housings, quilted in the manner of the gambeson, the word jazeguenée indicates they were made after the fashion of the jazerant.