Salvete Omnes,
back in the XVII century, during the infamous Deluge - 1655-60- or the Swedish invasion and mayhem in the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth.
And from this period comes another splendid paint horse with a rider who was a son of a king, Valdemar Christian of Schleswig-Holstein.
Our prince in question was a cavalry commander within the Swedish royal army during the 1655 invasion, he commanded a regiment of reiters he had completed enrolling in Bremen, at that time was a territory taxed and aligned with the Swedish realm.
Polish soldier, poet and chronicler Wespazjan Kochowski wrote that this Swedish mercenary and Danish prince was wounded at the battle of Golab in February 1656 and died in Lublin, around the time when the Polish-Lithuanian forces took the city from the Swedish occupiers in April 1656.
Some interesting elements of this horse tack
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| very ornate saddle and tack |
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| the beautiful paint is shod with horseshoes |
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| quite short shanks on this curb-bit, while forelock and mane are just flowing |
enjoy
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