Chapel with bar grill and mail aventail - Louis

Chapel with bar grill and mail aventail “Louis” was one of the most popular medieval helmets through XIII-XVII centuries. This simple, comfortable and functional helmet successfully resisted both halberds and the first bullets. Details changed, but the essence - the metal dome with wide brim remained constant, which says a lot about this design reliability. And here is one of the great representatives of the chapel family – Louis, chapel with bar grill and mail aventail. This is stylization for Byzantine helmet with a brim. It comes from southeast Europe region (Byzantium, South Rus, the Balkans), where such medieval war helmets used at XIII-XV centuries.

This hand-made Middle Ages helmet forged by our blacksmiths from the best cold-rolled 1,5 mm steel. This fighter face protection exactly repeats its historical prototypes. Moreover, this is not a decorative helmet, but a real battle defense, so you can use it in: SCA, HEMA, Larp, Stage performances, Medieval festivals, Reenactment events.
Basic price (525 euro) includes following options:
- Helmet dome forged from 1,5 mm cold-rolled steel with steel rivets;
- Hidden protection (nape and bar grill);
- Leather pick strap inside;
- 100% natural fabric liner (Liner for bascinet and barbute).

Pay your attention – this is universal liner model, and you could worn it under the Bascinet, Great Bascinet, Barbute or Sugar Loaf helmets. Comfortable and historically corrected protection made of 100% natural fabric – cotton or linen and stuffed with natural sheet wadding. This is basic complement, if you want to change it, please contact us [email protected].

As additional options, you can order Mail aventail 2*10 mm non-riveted rings for extra 95 euro. However, if you want to make your Louis chapel one of unique medieval helmets you can choose such an option as digital artistic etching (70 euro).

Main photo shows one of the best medieval helmet with following options:
- Helmet dome forged from 1 mm cold-rolled steel with steel rivets;
- Hidden protection (nape and bar grill);
- Leather pick strap inside;
- Mail aventail 2*10 mm non-riveted rings;
- Digital artistic etching;
- 100% natural fabric liner. Linear for bascinet and barbute.

Look at this medieval times helmet and think about benefits, which you’ll get, if you buy metal knight helmet
at Steel Mastery:
- Custom-made high-quality medieval armor helmet made of best steel by your individual parameters:
- Reliability and comfortable wearing for long-long years;
- Product made by cool brutal experienced blacksmiths, who really know how to make a good armor;
- Convenient payment systems (PayPal, Skrill, Visa, MasterCard, American Express);
- Flexible return system in case if you don’t like an item.

Check out these models of chapel helmets: chapel-de-fer with SCA grill, early cabasset (chapel)
We offer to complete your head protection with padded liners and caps, padded pelerines and aventails.
In section Armor for head, you can see all medieval knight helmet models that we offer for ordering. If you
did not find any for your taste and wish, please send us photo and description of the required model and we will
make it for you.