Morion (helmet)

Morion

A Spanish conquistador comb morion (c. 17th century)
Type	Combat helmet
Material	Steel
Place of origin	Kingdom of Castile
Introduced	16th century

A morion (Spanish: morrión) (Catalan: morrió) is a type of open-faced combat helmet originally from Spain, used from the beginning of the 16th century to the early-17th century. The morion usually had a flat brim and a crest running from front to back. Its introduction was contemporaneous with European exploration of much of North, Central and South America - explorers such as Hernando de Soto and Coronado may have supplied morions to their foot-soldiers in the 1540s.