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haberjet

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Searchable Lemmata: halberget (AF), haubergettus (L), haubergettium (L), haberjet (MdE), hauberget (MdE).
Alternate Forms: habergetum, haubergetto, habergettis, hauberjettum, habbergeto, halbergeso, halbergeto, halbergetto, halbergetti, albergeti, haubergentum, haubergié, habergiez, haberget.

    Definitions and Defining Citations:

1(n.) Textile; type of cloth, almost certainly a light worsted [see Munro, J. (1999), p. 105], presumbably of high quality, possibly diamond twill weave; also, a piece of such cloth. A few attestations describe haberjet as 'de Stanford' (see below and cf. the entry for 'stanford'). The term is orthographically related to habergeon; it has been suggested that the cloth-name may derive from a similarity in appearance to chain-mail [Carus-Wilson (1969), Nockert, M. (1983), 107; Walton Rogers (2001), 166) and cf. following sense]. Modern uses appear only in historical contexts.(circa 1170 - ante 1900)
1. Cuvert ert d'un mantel de menu haubergié, E descuvert li erent les jambes e li pié Biblical/Hagiographic, Historic. [AND Becket (326) circa 1174]
2. pro xxxij ulnis halbergetti tincti in grana Accounts. (dyed in grain) [DMLBS Pipe (18) 1196]
3. dedit predicto Alardo sexaginta solidos esterlingorum et unam robam de halberget [AND Pleas King (27) 1198/1202]
4. robavit ei [Henrico] tunicam et pallium et camisiam suam ... j palium de haubergeto Accounts. (citations from individual page of text may not appear in original order) [DMLBS CurR (II 180) 1203]
5. quod ... mercatores Bolonie implacare possint in haubergettio de Stanford' emendo dcccxx m. et illud haubergerium libere educere de ... Anglia Accounts. ('of Stanford') [DMLBS Pat (86a) 1208]
6. de dras teinz e de rosez e de habergiez(cf. the following citation) [AND Magna Carta (360.35) 1215]
7. sit ... una latitudo pannorum rinctorum et russettorum et halbergettorum, sc. ij ulne infra listas Legal. [DMLBS Magna Carta (35) 1215]
8. quod nullus mercator ... vendat ... pannum ... vel haubergettum qui non habeat ij ulnas infra listam Accounts. [DMLBS Cl (378b) 1218]
9. habeat ... precium xxiij peciarum fileti ad stradas faciendas. ... precium vj ulnarum de grosso halbergetto Accounts, Legal. (citations from individual page of text may not appear in original order) [DMLBS Cl (89) 1228]
10. pannarius ... habeat ... haubergentum album de Stanforde, haubergentum Musset', haubergentum tinctum in viride vel in burnetam vel in bluet ... item habeat grossum russetum vel minuetum, burellum Londoniense vel burellum de Beauveis, ...(Nominale) [DMLBS Neues Archiv (IV 340) circa 1300/1400]
11. Escole de Oxenford / Escarlet de Nichole / Hauberge de Estanford / Blauncket de Blye / Burnet de Beuerle / Russet de Colcestre Poetic. [LexP Douce (9-14) circa 1250]
c.f.: haubergium
MdE.
Sex: N/A    Use: Secular    Status: High    Ceremonial: No
Body Parts: N/A.
References: Carus-Wilson, E. (1969); Munro, J. H. (1999); Nockert, M. (1983)
2(n.) Armour; hauberk (light?) or similar defensive garment, occasionally described as made of mail ('ferreo') or similar. Cf. separate entry for haubergettus.(ante 1212 - 1400 ?)
1. Johannes de Reingny tenet Neuton' [Cumb] per serjanteriam ... et ibit ad preceptum ... regis in exercitu Scocie cum uno habbergeto Accounts. (with reference to serjeanty) [DMLBS Fees (197) 1212]
2. j habergetum, capellum ferreum, gladium et cultellum Historic. [DMLBS M. PAR. (Maj. VI 208) 1252]
3. haubergetti: et in j alio haubergetto ferreo cum j coifa ferrea empto [pro municione] Accounts. [DMLBS MinAc W. (Wales I 406) 1305]
4. aketonis, habergettis, bacinettis [etc.] ... armatos Accounts. (cf. ib. 204a) [DMLBS RScot (183a) 1318]
5. j dolium plenum galearum, hauberjettorum, et aliarum armaturarum Accounts. [DMLBS Cl (137 m. 4) 1319]
6. per servicium inveniendi j hominem equitem cum aketona, haubergetto [etc.] Accounts. (with reference to serjeanty) [DMLBS LTR (Mem 105 m. 27) 1333]
L.
Sex: Male    Use: Military    Ceremonial: No
Body Parts:

    Etymological Evidence:

Speculative, Of obscure origin (cf. medieval L haubergetum); related to hauberk and habergeon. Appears referring to a type of cloth dyed in grain from the Pipe Rolls of 1196; appears as a hauberk or similar defensive garment or armour from Matthew of Paris' Chronica Majora (c1252?), and with reference to serjeanty as early as a 1212 Liber feodorum (Book of Fees).
WF:
Etym Cog: haubergeon (MdE).
References:

    Archaeological Evidence:

Once thought to be a 2 x 2 twill (Carus-Wilson, (1969)) this cloth is now associated with 2 x 1 diamond twills found in tenth/eleventh to thirteenth-century archaeological contexts in medieval towns (Walton Rogers ( 2001),166, 168.
References: Carus-Wilson, E. (1969)
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