Maximilian armour is type of full plate armour (it means for the whole body) which appeared in 16th century in Germany. It is named of emperor of so called Holy Roman Empire (in essence German Empire) Maximilian I of Habsburg (1459-1518, emperor 1508-1519). It is characteristic by its folds on armour, raised shoulders and its weight (it is heavier then medieval gothic armour from 15th century).
Development of armour in 16th century, or so called Early Modern Age is practically countinuation of of development of European armour from Middle Ages (we can say that it is also form of continuation of in some sense medieval armory). This type of armour could not be appeared that before armour of 16th century did not existed medieval types of armours, gothic and millanese (helm in this armour is especially result of development of itallian style armour from Middle Ages). Photos you can see here are representation of armour type that is called Maximillian armour.
Full plate armour (invented in second half of 14th century), it means full body plate armour and is made from shaped plates designed for particular parts of body appeare in whole history of the world only in western Europe. This types of armour can not be found in anywhere in the world, only western Europe in history, that it is made.
The most outspread system of armous in history are mostly lamellar armour, which are made by small joined plates. They appear in Byzantium, Mongoly, China, Japane and in other places.
Osmanlian Turks did used combination of mail (chained armour) and small plates, so that their armour did enabled them very good mobility (altough Europeans was not immobile in armour), also they did not used full helm.
Those stories from 19th century that they must be using windlass to mount on horse are not accurate. Knight, generally armoured European warrior was considerably mobile in armour, but this type of armour did hardened movement (but not in a way that they used windlass to mount on horsback).
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