A king would have used similar horses for both tournaments and battle. They would have used a special type of stallion that needed to be fast, with lots of power.
Arming a horse in the 16th and 17th centuries commonly included using the following:
• Crinet
• Shaffron
• Crupper
• Peytral
• Stirrups
All the horse armour together was known as a bard.
