Military Function
The military function that a man-at-arms performed was serving as a fully armoured heavy cavalryman; though he could, and in the 14th and 15th centuries often did, also fight on foot. In the course of the 16th century, men-at-arms increasingly serve as other cavalry types, the demi-lancer and the cuirassier.
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