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Possibly Italian, 1470 Collection: Mr. Alfred W. Cox, Glendoick, Perthshire

Possibly English, about 1500 Collection: H.M. the King, Windsor Castle

Count de Valencia suggests that this is possibly the chanfron of the horse ridden by Francis I of France at the battle of Pavia. The nationality of these two chanfrons is uncertain; but we consider the former possibly Spanish. In the Museum of the Rotunda, Woolwich, placed upon the head of the horse that supports the armour known as the Bayard suit, is a chanfron of great beauty of form and elegance of workmanship (Fig. 996). It is in the flamboyant Gothic manner, and is of its type as fine an example as any with which we are acquainted. It was doubtless part of the armour which is supposed to have been brought from Rhodes; but about this we can get no definite information, although the suit for the man with which it is associated is recorded as having been brought from the Château St. Germains.