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Meh, the armour weights are hit or miss. You can find "evidence" to support it either way depending on where you look. Some of it's reasonable, such as full plate being close in weight to period tournament armour, though that was technically heavier than the full plate that would have been worn by soldiers in the field since it was sports gear rather than fighting gear. Some of it's less reasonable, such as much of the maille which is closer to modern recreation armour which is usually made of thicker wire than period maille.
One thing to keep in mind is that the concepts of "fantasy" armour in most RPGs are anachronisms dating to what we knew of history back when the original D&D came out. That was an understanding of history which was based less on actual history and more on the Victorian idea of reconstructionism (the origin of Vikings supposedly wearing horned helms, for example) which sometimes led to the Victorians just making s&*! up that sounded cool/plausible. It's not until very recently (in a relative historical sense) western culture started actually getting interested in and rediscovering the truth behind its own lineage of martial arts. Even then, most game designers leave that stuff in as a sort of homage to our collective gaming roots rather than stress over realism and/or accuracy.