Earl of Pembroke's Armour

[1] The armour on display at the Royal Ontario Museum in Toronto is the torso and upper leg portion of the full suit that was created for William Herbert, 1st Earl of Pembroke.

[2] The Greenwich workshops were founded by King Henry VIII in 1525 to provide tailored armour for nobles of England.

This piece, originally from the ancestral estate of the Earls of Pembroke,[3] was kept in the Armoury of Wilton House near Salisbury in Wiltshire, England.

The armour is composed of overlapping horizontal lames of steel that are held together by internal leather straps and sliding rivets.

The shape of the shoulders and sides of this piece reflect the cut of the doublet worn by civilians during the reign of Mary I.