Misericordia (dagger)
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| Weapon type: | Dagger, armored piercer |
| Designations: | Misericordia, Merci de Dieu, God of grace, God of grace, giver of grace, armored piercer |
| Use: | weapon |
| Creation time: | 12th Century |
| Working time: | High to late Middle Ages |
| Region of origin / author: |
Europe , knighthood |
| Distribution: | Holy Roman Empire, England, Europe |
| Handle: | Wood, metal |
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The Misericordia ( Merci de Dieu , God have mercy , grace donors ) is a medieval dagger from Europe .
description
The Misericordia has a narrow, pointed three or four-edged blade. The blade becomes narrower from the handle to the location . The booklet is worked in different ways, mostly has a disc-shaped guard and a pommel. The misericordia was used to pierce between armor joints. Therefore it had no edges, but was a pure stabbing weapon . The name came about because the knights inflicted a death blow on a defeated opponent or a coup de grace on a fatally wounded person (hence the name). In the Holy Roman Empire the term armored piercer was used or he was called God of grace . From the typification he falls under the daggers and armored piercers.
Individual evidence
- ^ Armory: A compendium of medieval melee weapons: Armory: A compendium of medieval melee weapons , G & S Verlag , p. 64 | ISBN 978-3925698460
- ↑ 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, page 451, ISBN 978-0-486-40726 -5
literature
- Meyers Konversations-Lexikon , Leipzig 1908, p. 896. Miséricorde Pierer's Universal-Lexikon, Altenburg 1858, p. 223.
- Calvert Frederick, Spanish Arms and Armor, Being a Historical and Descriptive Account of the Royal Armory of Madrid, BiblioBazaar, LLC, 2009, ISBN 978-1-110-30831-6
- Auguste Demmin, The historical development of the weapons of war from the Stone Age to the invention of the needle gun: a handbook of weapons , Verlag Seemann, 1869
- Friedrich Deters, The English attack weapons at the time of the introduction of firearms (1300-1350) , Volume 38 of The English attack weapons at the time of the introduction of the firearms Verlag C. Winter, 1913