page_title: Demi-lancer
section_title: Recruitment
hierarchical_section_title: Demi-lancer / Recruitment
caption_attribution_description: Español: Retrato ecuestre del emperador Carlos I de España (1500-1558), que aparece llevando la armadura que usó en la batalla de Mühlberg, que se libró en 1547 y en la que el emperador derrotó aplastantemente a los protestantes alemanes.
context_page_description: The "Demi-lancer" or demilancer was a type of heavy cavalryman found in Western Europe in the 16th and early 17th centuries.
context_section_description: Demi-lancers were prominent in the English troops who fought in the Dutch War of Independence, and were mobilised as part of the defences of England against the invasion threat posed by the Spanish Armada. In all 2,711 demi-lancers were raised in England in 1588, the Armada year. The English demi-lancers were raised using the "Trained Band" system, and from the feudal levy on nobles and ecclesiastics.
caption: Emperor Charles V, equipped as a demi-lancer - though his lance is of a lighter type than was typical, by Titian.
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