The morion is an open helmet used from the mid-16th through the early 17th century, characterised by a flat, upturned brim and a distinctive comb running front to back. Despite its popular association with the earliest Spanish conquistadors, the morion actually postdates figures like Cortes and Pizarro by several decades, only coming into wide use from roughly the 1570s onward, and was worn just as commonly by English, Italian, German and other European infantry as by the Spanish. This reproduction features a peaked brim variant, offering an alternative silhouette within the broader morion family of open combed helmets.
Peak Morion Helmet
The morion is an open helmet used from the mid-16th through the early 17th century, characterised by a flat, upturned brim and a distinctive comb running front to back. This peaked version features a pronounced pointed brim, a variant silhouette within the wider morion family. Though iconically linked to early Spanish explorers, the morion did not actually see wide use until several decades after the conquests of Cortes and Pizarro.
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