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The weapon had a pointed metal tip that, with the speed and weight of a destrier behind it, could run a man through in spite of shield and chainmail as easily as a knife slid through butter.
But, despite all his sensible arguments against it, as soon as duties permitted, he found himself on the back of his destrier , making the long and difficult journey to Netherby.
However, the one demonstration he excelled at was portraying a knight's destrier (the Latin term for a warhorse).
As to your comment about horses, there were all different sizes - knights and kings typically rode the massive destriers , but their pages and attendants frequently rode the smaller palfreys.
In her ground-breaking work on the medieval warhorse, Ann Hyland notes the importance of ‘ destriers [warhorses], coursers, rounceys, palfrey and packhorses’.
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