What kind of armor did the knights wear?

They wore a shirt made out of interlinked metal rings or metal rings welded together. The shirt must have been very heavy because it was 30 pounds!!!! They had leg protection and gloves called mufflers. The mesh was not a good armor though because it caused blunt trauma when the knights were hit by a sword or something.

The armor was not protective against arrows and crossbow bolts. The tip of the arrow or bolt would break apart the chains and penetrate the knight(ow that would really hurt). The armor was upgraded later on and  was mad into solid plates of metal which would protect arrows and bolts but then a fire arms were invented and the armor could not protect the knight from bullets.