Discussion: The name Spanish Morion is English. In French, it’s called a Cabasset. Regardless of what you call it, it is a variant of the Spanish morion, which was popular in the late 16th and early 17th centuries. Most collectors refer to it as a cabasset, which, in my opinion, is a better term. The term cabasset comes from the Spanish word cabesa, which means head ‚”The Spanish morion almost certainly developed in Italy but spread throughout Europe. During the 17th-century English Civil War, armies wore the Spanish morion; some came with settlers to the New World. The Spanish morion‚ name is attributed to the fact that it was highly used by the Spanish. However, it was made primarily in Italy and Germany (see page 189 in my book), then imported to Spain. Morions and Spanish morions were used in conjunction with a shield. The shield would be held in the left arm with the aid of an “enarmes” (see pages 403-C, 413-#20 and #21 in my book) and a shoulder strap (2) called a “guige” (see pages 402, 403-D and 405-F in my book). The guige was attached to the shield and would hang over the neck/shoulder to alleviate the shield’s weight. Imagine spending 8 to 10 hours a day lugging a shield without the aid of a guige. At the moment of conflict, the man-at-arms would raise his shield to eye level thanks to the enarmes. While his shield would protect his face, the Spanish morion/cabasset would protect the man-at-arms’s head.