Images showing the use of garters on various types of hose.

• Buckles and tips from the garters found in the tomb of Queen Aregonde, c. 570
• Garter, London, early 14th century
• Sword-fighting, Corpus iuris civilis (UBG 32, fol. 91v), first half of the 14th century
• A man, Sermons (UBG 730, fol. 49v), first half of the 14th century
• A man sows grain, The Luttrell Psalter (British Library Add. 42130, fol. 170v), c. 1325-1335
• Killing an adulterer, Concordantiae caritatis (SBL 151, fol. 244v), c. 1349-1351
Byneþe here hamme upon a hose gray,
y-bounde is žat dame wyþ a garter grey,
here legges faste to ty3te here hose

“Þo oure lord god …”, PML M.957, c. 1400

• The greeting of Willehalm and Rennewart, Willehalm (ÖNB 2643, fol. 185r), 1387
• Badge: a hunter, late 14th century
• The drunkenness of Noah, Weltchronik (ÖNB 2823, fol. 21r), 1463
And the comouns weren no wolen, but yf it be a powvere cote undir thair uttermest garnement, made of grete caunvas, and callid a frokke. Thair hausyn beth of lyke caunvas, and passyn not thair kne, wherfore thai beth gartered and ther theis bare. Thair wyfes and childeren gone barefote; thai mowe in non otherwyse leve.

Sir John Forescue’s description of French customs, The Governance of England, c. 1475

• The stoning of St. Stephen, 1502
• Flight into Egypt by Albrecht Dürer, 1503-1504
• Nativity, 1505
• The bearing of the Cross, a prayerbook (ÖNB 3257, fol. 20v), 1505
• The martyrdom of St. Catherine on an alterpiece at Poniky in Slovakia, 1512