Medieval Arming Swords
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Tizona Cid Cadet Sword - Forged
The Tizona is one of the two swords, along with the Casting , the legendary tradition attributed to the Cid, until it gave to his sons-in-law the Infantes of Carrión. The sword had been won in combat by the warrior Catalan Count of Barcelona and, despite the fact that it was given, along with Tizona, your sons-in-law the Infantes, the same was returned by them after the outrage committed on his daughters doña Elvira and Doña Sol in the town of Corpes, and that gave rise to the name of the reproach that tells the cantar de mio Cid.
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After the incident, The Cid had been disgraced and calls for justice to the king. The trial culminates with the "riepto" or duel in which the representatives of the cause of the Cid are due to the infants. They are disgraced in fair public and nullify their wedding returning also the swords. Being Cast given again by the Cid to his knight Martín Antolínez. Historians also doubt that the guarded in the Royal Palace of Madrid and shown as the sword Colada real is in fact authentic.
Total length: 75 cm
Blade: Stainless Steel
Edge: Blunt
Scabbard: None
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Tizona Cid Cadet Sword - Brass
The Tizona is one of the two swords, along with the Casting , the legendary tradition attributed to the Cid, until it gave to his sons-in-law the Infantes of Carrión. The sword had been won in combat by the warrior Catalan Count of Barcelona and, despite the fact that it was given, along with Tizona, your sons-in-law the Infantes, the same was returned by them after the outrage committed on his daughters doña Elvira and Doña Sol in the town of Corpes, and that gave rise to the name of the reproach that tells the cantar de mio Cid.
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After the incident, The Cid had been disgraced and calls for justice to the king. The trial culminates with the "riepto" or duel in which the representatives of the cause of the Cid are due to the infants. They are disgraced in fair public and nullify their wedding returning also the swords. Being Cast given again by the Cid to his knight Martín Antolínez. Historians also doubt that the guarded in the Royal Palace of Madrid and shown as the sword Colada real is in fact authentic.
Total length: 75 cm
Blade: Stainless Steel
Edge: Blunt
Scabbard: None
All dimensions are approximate and may vary from piece to piece.Excl. Tax: £31.67 Incl. Tax: £38.00 -
Charles V Cadet Sword - Forged
Charles I of Spain and V of the Holy Roman Empire, called "Caesar", is elected Holy Roman Emperor on the death of his grandfather Maximilian in 1519. Charles I of Spain and V of Germany was known in his time as "THE Emperor" since no king ever managed to gather under his command such an immense empire.
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He retired to the Monastery of Yuste where he remained a year and a half in retreat, away from the cities and political life, and accompanied by the order of the Jerónimos who spiritually guided the monarch until his last days. On 21 September 1558 he died of malaria. The coffin of Carlos I is located in the Royal Crypt of the Monastery of El Escorial known as the Pantheon of the Kings.
Length: 75cm
Edge: Blunt
Scabbard: None
All dimensions are approximate and may vary from piece to piece.Excl. Tax: £31.67 Incl. Tax: £38.00 -
Charles V Cadet Sword - Brass
Charles I of Spain and V of the Holy Roman Empire, called "Caesar", is elected Holy Roman Emperor on the death of his grandfather Maximilian in 1519. Charles I of Spain and V of Germany was known in his time as "THE Emperor" since no king ever managed to gather under his command such an immense empire.
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He retired to the Monastery of Yuste where he remained a year and a half in retreat, away from the cities and political life, and accompanied by the order of the Jerónimos who spiritually guided the monarch until his last days. On 21 September 1558 he died of malaria. The coffin of Carlos I is located in the Royal Crypt of the Monastery of El Escorial known as the Pantheon of the Kings.
Length: 75cm
Edge: Blunt
Scabbard: None
All dimensions are approximate and may vary from piece to piece.Excl. Tax: £31.67 Incl. Tax: £38.00 -
Great Captain Cadet Sword - Forged
Gonzalo Fernández de Córdoba was a Spanish general who fought in the Conquest of Granada and the Italian Wars. He reorganized the emerging Spanish army and its tactics, and was regarded as the "father of trench warfare". He was also called "The Great Captain".
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Córdoba was a pioneer of modern warfare. As a field commander, like Napoleon three centuries later, his goal was the destruction of the enemy army. Córdoba systematically pursued defeated armies after a victory to minimize future resistance. He helped found the first modern standing army (the nearly-invincible Spanish infantry which dominated European battlefields for most of the 16th and 17th centuries).
Total length: 75 cm
Blade: Stainless Steel
Edge: Blunt
Scabbard: None
All dimensions are approximate and may vary from piece to piece.Excl. Tax: £31.67 Incl. Tax: £38.00 -
Great Captain Cadet Sword - Brass
Gonzalo Fernández de Córdoba was a Spanish general who fought in the Conquest of Granada and the Italian Wars. He reorganized the emerging Spanish army and its tactics, and was regarded as the "father of trench warfare". He was also called "The Great Captain".
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Córdoba was a pioneer of modern warfare. As a field commander, like Napoleon three centuries later, his goal was the destruction of the enemy army. Córdoba systematically pursued defeated armies after a victory to minimize future resistance. He helped found the first modern standing army (the nearly-invincible Spanish infantry which dominated European battlefields for most of the 16th and 17th centuries).
Total length: 75 cm
Blade: Stainless Steel
Edge: Blunt
Scabbard: None
All dimensions are approximate and may vary from piece to piece.Excl. Tax: £31.67 Incl. Tax: £38.00