David Klocker Ehrenstrahl - more horse and some royal riders

a golden horse of Karl XI

 Salvete Omnes,

a fine bay steed, king in a gilded cuirass

just for your viewing pleasure - some more horses from the brushes of David Klocker Ehrenstrahl, court painter at the Swedish royal court of the XVII century. 

splendid gray 

Karl XI in a buff coat 

bay Sultan

Visir 

a ruler of Holstein - Fredrich IV

Valete

Estonian Native Horse and genetics

 Salvete Omnes,

while perusing academia.edu subscriptions and searching for the Birka warriors etc I came across Gus Cothran's page on academia. 
I guess I started my adventure with horse genomics by reading prof. Cothran's articles etc.
So in his(and esteemed colleagues)  2019AD article -  Population Genetic Analysis of the Estonian Native Horse Suggests Diverse and Distinct Genetics, Ancient Origin and Contribution from Unique Patrilines- (link) we have a study of the Estonian Native Horse -    University of Oklahoma livestock and breeds page - wiki page, breeders pages. 

The horse averages 147cm at withers and about 430kg in weight (I guess the stallions). Its gene pool includes Mongolian horse and the Yakutian; Scandinavian horses like Gotland Pony, Norvegian Fjord, and Islandic Pony; British Isles horses - Exmoor and Shetland,  Polish Konik and Carpathian Hucul... 

This small horse might have been part of the horses' pool used by the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth armies as between 1569-1629 Duchy of Livonia was part of our Polish state. Also, it is reasonable to infer that some Polish stallions left their progeny among the herds of the Estonian horse during that period.  After 1620s the Duchy of Livonia was conquered and annexed by the Swedes who already held the northern part of Estonia. It all ended with Peter the Great of Imperial Russia conquering all of Estonia during the Great Northern War. And Estonian horse became popular in Imperial Russia.. and so on until the present it is the native breed in the independent Estonia. 

Valete

Claes Ralamb Costume book - horses and tack

Salvete Omnes,
one of the Swedish Kingdom ambassadors to the High Porte in Constantinople ( Istanbul) Claes Ralamb ordered a so called Ottoman costume book painted for his collection while at this post, and he took it with him back to his homeland (along with the famous sultan procession paintings ) - mentioned already on my blog long time ago.
the digital copy of the entire book here.

from that collection we can 'corral' the paintings showing the horse  of the Ottoman empire -



 







 

 
 


an Ottoman sipahi


 also of interest are these wild cats (leopard etc) pelt-skin clad warriors of the Ottoman sultans etc - some of them are the jannisary, and some are deli warriors.


and finally  a Safavid Persian with a kalkan shield at his belt? covered by his coat - an interesting way to carry the kalkan

Valete

Rocznica Kircholmu 1605-2019

Salvete Omnes,
[in Polish]

i kolejna rocznica bitwy która rozsławiła husarie i polsko-litewskiego dowódce Jana Karola Chodkiewicza - nieledwie polskie Cannae, ku glorii JKM Zygmunta III i Rzeczpospolitej Obojga Narodów.

z mowy Jakuba Sobieskiego na pogrzebie Jana Karola Chodkiewicza (za Kudelka, Bitwa Pod Kirholmem)

parę rzeczy zrodlowych etc:
2 strony z 'Carolomachii'  autorstwa jezuity Wawrzyńca Bojera (wydane  jako Krzysztof  Zawisza 1606)  -

Piotr Skarga o zwycięstwie- via FBC - Pokłon Panu Bogu -
Pismo samego hetmana Chodkiewicza opisujące bitwę - także via Polona.
Grafika za akwarelą Juliusza Kossaka.
 z Kroniki biskupa Pawla Piaseckiego:


plan bitwy pod Kircholmem mości Kudelki  i kopia polskiego artysty T. Wieszczyckiego  grafiki Lauro i Tempesty z 1606 roku - więcej na temat pod Silva Rerum.

Chwała bohaterom i ich rumakom

valete!
ps
wielu sławnych, a dziś zapomnianych jak Tomasz Dąbrowa, Wincenty Wojna czy Lacki, rycerzy polsko-litewskich walczyło tamtego dnia, min sławny zagończyk  późniejszej wojny z Moskwa o Smoleńsk etc imć pan Aleksander Lisowski był towarzyszem husarskim w chorągwi husarskiej Wilamowskiego.
ps'
strona Mariusza Balcerka na Academia. edu i badania tegoż badacza nad bitwą.