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The Helmschmied family of
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were one of late medieval and Renaissance Europe's foremost families of
armourer Historically, an armourer is a person who makes personal armour, especially plate armour. Historically armourers were often men, but women could also undertake the occupation: for example Alice la Haubergere worked as an armourer in Cheapside i ...
s. Their name, often spelled ''Helmschmid'' in historical sources, modern scholarship, and museum collections, translates to ''helmet smith''. The family's most prominent members were
Lorenz Helmschmied Lorenz Helmschmied or "Helmschmid" (active 1467–1515) was a German armourer and a member of the Helmschmied family of armourers from Augsburg. He was one of the primary armourers to the Habsburg court of the Holy Roman Emperors Frederick III, H ...
(''floruit'' 1467-1515), Kolman Helmschmied (1471–1532) and Desiderius Kolman Helmschmied (1513–1579). The Helmschmieds made
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for the high nobility of the
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, including multiple
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, for rulers of the
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, for the
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and
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, as well as other wealthy clients. They competed for fame and noble patronage with the other two most prominent late 15th century European armour smith families, the Seusenhofers of
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(Austria) and the Missaglias of
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. Many works that the Helmschmieds made for
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and
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are preserved in the
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, and many of their other works are kept in the
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in Vienna.


Gallery

File:Sallet of Emperor Maximilian I (1459–1519) MET DP-12880-034.jpg, Sallet helmet made for Holy Roman Emperor Maximilian I File:HJRK A 79 - Armour of Maximilian I, c. 1485.jpg, Armour made for Maximillian I File:HJRK B 174 - Racing armour back, c. 1495.jpg, Horse racing armour made for Maximillian I File:Close Helmet for a Boy MET DP22401.jpg, Helmet made for a young boy File:Pair of Tassets of Emperor Charles V of Austria (1500–1558) MET DP341735.jpg, Pair of tassets made for Holy Roman Emperor
Charles V Charles V may refer to: Kings and Emperors * Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor (1500–1558) * Charles V of Naples (1661–1700), better known as Charles II of Spain * Charles V of France (1338–1380), called the Wise Others * Charles V, Duke ...
File:Burgonet MET 25.135.66 005AA2015.jpg, Burgonet helmet File:Antonio Moro - Willem I van Nassau.jpg,
William the Silent William the Silent or William the Taciturn (; 24 April 153310 July 1584), more commonly known in the Netherlands as William of Orange (), was the leader of the Dutch revolt against the Spanish Habsburg Netherlands, Habsburgs that set off the ...
(William of Orange) wearing Helmschmied armour File:WMK - Kürass Ferdinand.jpg, Armour made for Archduke Ferdinand I, who would later become Holy Roman Emperor


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* (see index) Armourers Families of German ancestry History of Augsburg {{surname Surnames of German origin