11-22-2006, 07:23 PM
Procopios says that Empress Theodora sent to Belissarios and his Voukellarioi , after the battle of Darra, helmets with white plums and white pennons for their lances.
Though the practice of giving white uniforms to imperial retinues comes from middle Roman period and the practice simply continiued in Byzantium.
The practise was later reindroduced by the Hapsburgs, the Romanovs and even by Napoleon at a time.
Kind regards
Though the practice of giving white uniforms to imperial retinues comes from middle Roman period and the practice simply continiued in Byzantium.
The practise was later reindroduced by the Hapsburgs, the Romanovs and even by Napoleon at a time.
Kind regards
HOPLITE14GR (aka Stefanos)
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Phokean Ekdromos
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