It’s a reasonable assumption but there was a… French? king who survived a battlefield gut wound because the knife stuck in his stomach to the hilt didn’t make it through the fat.
Knights were nobility by definition, and it was precisely as plate became a reality that conditioning standards were dropping.
Of course they also brings up that what a “knights full armor” is varies widely by time and place
Well the post says “knight in full armor,” implying a person in good shape.
It’s a reasonable assumption but there was a… French? king who survived a battlefield gut wound because the knife stuck in his stomach to the hilt didn’t make it through the fat.
Knights were nobility by definition, and it was precisely as plate became a reality that conditioning standards were dropping.
Of course they also brings up that what a “knights full armor” is varies widely by time and place