Flamberge
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| Information | |
| Weapon type: | Sword, two-handed |
| Designations: | Flamberge, Flamberg, flame sword |
| Use: | weapon |
| Region of origin / author: |
Switzerland , Confederates |
| Distribution: | Europe |
| Overall length: | about 170 cm to about 180 cm |
| Blade length: | about 120 cm to about 130 cm |
| Weight: | about 3.5 kg |
| Handle: | Wood, leather, metal nails, fabric fringes. |
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The Flamberge , the Flamberg or the Flame Sword is a two-handed sword that probably has its origins in medieval Switzerland . It is a version of the European two-hander .
description
It bears the name Flamberge because of its corrugated (flamed, i.e. flame-shaped) blade. It was mainly used to punch alleys in enemy pikemen's walls (so-called Gassenhauer) so that your own foot troops could advance through them and get through to the enemy pikemen, as well as to fend off enemy soldiers who advanced between the rows of pikemen. The mercenaries recruited for this task, the so-called double mercenaries or swordplayers, were paid double wages. The double mercenaries were highly paid specialists when they were on duty, but they usually did not have a long life.
The length of the blade of a flaming sword was different. The swords were often made individually, especially since the wearers had different body sizes. In the Swiss city of Chur you can examine different flame swords from the years between 1200 and 1550 in various museums.
The term Flamberge was sometimes used for all bladed weapons with flamed blades (daggers, rapiers, etc.).
literature
- George Cameron Stone , Donald J. LaRocca, A Glossary of the Construction, Decoration and Use of Arms and Armor: in All Countries and in All Times , Courier Dover Publications, 1999, pages 642, 643, 644, ISBN 978-0- 486-40726-5
- Liliane Funcken , Fred Funcken , Historical weapons and armor: Knights and Landsknechte from the 8th to the 16th century: Middle Ages and Renaissance , Orbis Publishing, 2001, page 174, 175, ISBN 978-3-572-01308-1
- Wendelin Boeheim , Handbook of Arms , Nachdr. D. Ed. Leipzig 1890, Fourier Verlag, Wiesbaden 1985, pages 261, 262, ISBN 978-3-201-00257-8
- Hugo Schneider, Friedrich Kobler: Flamberg , in: Reallexikon zur Deutschen Kunstgeschichte , Vol. 9, 1992, Sp. 633–638
