In the miniatures of that time we find Charles the Good, Count of Flanders, who died in 1127, represented with a cap with a point at the top, to which a long streamer is attached, and a peak turned up in front.  A cap very similar, but without the streamer, and with the point turned towards the left, is to be seen in a portrait of Geoffroy le Bel, Comte de Maine, in 1150.  About the same period, Agnes de Baudement is represented with a sort of cap made of linen or stuff, with lappets hanging down over the shoulders; she is dressed in a robe fastened round the waist, and having long bands attached to the sleeves near the wrists.  Queen Ingeburge, second wife of Philip Augustus, also wore the tight gown, fastened at the collar by a round buckle, and two bands of stuff forming a kind of necklace; she also used the long cloak, and the closed shoes, which had then begun to be made pointed.  Robert, Comte de Dreux, who lived at the same period, is also dressed almost precisely like the Queen, notwithstanding the difference of sex and rank; his robe, however, only descends to the instep, and his belt has no hangings in front.  The Queen is represented with her hair long and flowing, but the count has his cut short.

[Illustration:  Fig. 412.—­Costume of King Louis le Jeune—­Miniature of the “Rois de France,” by Du Tillet (Sixteenth Century), in the National Library of Paris.]

[Illustration:  Fig. 413.—­Royal Costume.—­From a Miniature in a Manuscript of the Twelfth Century, in the Burgundian Library, Brussels.]

Women, in addition to their head-dress, often wore a broad band, which was tied under the chin, and gave the appearance of a kind of frame for the face.  Both sexes wore coloured bands on their shoes, which were tied round the ankles like those of sandals, and showed the shape of the foot.

The beard, which was worn in full at the beginning of the twelfth century, was by degrees modified both as to shape and length.  At first it was cut in a point, and only covered the end of the chin, but the next fashion was to wear it so as to join the moustaches.  Generally, under Louis le Jeune (Fig. 412), moustaches went out of fashion.  We next find beards worn only by country people, who, according to contemporary historians, desired to preserve a “remembrance of their participation in the Crusades.”  At the end of this century, all chins were shaved.

The Crusades also gave rise to the general use of the purse, which was suspended to the belt by a cord of silk or cotton, and sometimes by a metal chain.  At the time of the Holy War, it had become an emblem characteristic of pilgrims, who, before starting for Palestine, received from the hands of the priest the cross, the pilgrim’s staff, and the purse.