“…Biau sire saint Jacque, que j’ai requis, aidiés moy et secourrez à ce besoing”. A medieval equestrian equipment with the emblem of Saint James the major from Western Poland and its European significance

This paper provides the analysis of equestrian equipment excavated from two castles and a town, Lubrza and Międzyrzecz, located in Lubuskie Voivodship in western Poland. It contains a stratigraphic context assessment and a description of the four artifacts. The second part of this work establishes the chronology of the artifacts using comparative analysis with similar items recovered in various parts of Europe. Cultural contextualization of the finds from the late medieval borderland of Silesia, Brandenburg, and Greater Poland concludes the article.