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Not that common.
Very curiously, we do not see husband and wife, necessarily, in these pictures. Talhoffer only writes of man ("er") and woman ("frow"). (More illustrations, with original transcription and with modern German translation.)
While it may seem 'obvious' that this would perhaps also apply to 'marital affairs' this is only ...
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The first source below confirms:
that given numbers in the past may be unreliable
quotes the Lübeck Chronicle with similar numbers
As tremendous as the battle and the decision of Tannenberg was, and as much as was recorded at that time, it has only been passed down with great uncertainty.
The sequel to Detmar's Lübeck Chronicle puts the Polish-Lithuanian ...
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As far as the masks go, it does appear that there was a cultural fashion among the steppe nomads of that time to use face masks with facial features on their helmets. Also the only two we have from that period with that kind of stylized mustaches do appear to most likely be Cuman. These are the helmet finds in Lipovets and Kovali, both from 12-13th century ...
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