The gauntlets or mittens are pieces of armor are wearing metal gloves to protect fingers and hands. During the eleventh and twelfth centuries, consisted of a simple mesh bag formed by the end of the sleeve hauberto and France led to an opening in the handle to remove the hand. Then he made leather gloves with a redondela iron over the back and other mesh on the sleeves buttoned. In the fourteenth century, separate fingers, mittens XV consists of pieces of steel off the divisions of the hand and the middle of the XVI returned to separate the fingers to fire the pistol. In the Gothic period were used armed mittens sharp points being composed some of the fist, or back the mitten comprising two parts, the index finger carrying fifteen, the annular sixteen, twenty-two and heart among these pieces, others aimed at joints. A beautiful pair of mittens this class is preserved in the Spanish Royal Armory. Since the early fifteenth century, the iron gauntlet was independent of the leather glove, which was below and the best were made in Nuremberg. In many tournament armor of the fifteenth and early sixteenth left hand had split-fingered mitt and right, for the spear, defended by a mitten.