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Szczerbiec (Polish pronunciation: [ˈʂt͡ʂɛr.bʲɛt͡s]) is the ceremonial sword used in the coronations of most Polish monarchs from 1320 to 1764. It now is displayed in the treasure vault of the royal Wawel Castle in Kraków, as the only preserved part of the medieval Polish crown jewels.
Polish hussar sabre, 17th century. The hussar sabre was the best-known type of szabla of its time, and was a precursor to many similar types of European swords. Introduced around 1630, it served as a Polish cavalry melee weapon, mostly used by heavy cavalry, or Polish Hussars.
When Poland regained its independence in 1918, the renascent Polish Army inherited a wide variety of swords from the armies of German Empire, Russian Empire, and Austria-Hungary, as well as France, Italy, and many other states from where weapons were being imported during the Polish-Bolshevik War of 1920. Experiences in the war shaped Polish ...
Relacje wojenne z pierwszych lat walk polsko-kozackich powstania Bohdana Chmielnickiego okresu "Ogniem i mieczem" (1648–1651) [War reports from the first years of Polish-Cossack fights in the uprising of Bohdan Chmielnicki during the "With Fire and Sword" period (1648–1651)] (in Polish). Warsaw: Viking. ISBN 83-912638-0-0.
The Grunwald swords (Before 1410), once part of the Polish Crown Jewels, lost in 1853. The Sigismuntus Iustus [ pl ] ("[Sword of] Justice of Sigismund", c. 1520), sword of King Sigismund I the Old .
The only surviving original piece of the Polish crown jewels (Polish: Polskie klejnoty koronne) from the time of the Piast dynasty is the ceremonial sword Szczerbiec. It is currently on display along with other preserved royal items at the Wawel Royal Castle Museum in Kraków .
The swords were sent on 15 July 1410, just before the Battle of Grunwald (Tannenberg), as a symbolic invitation to engage Jungingen's forces in battle. After the Polish–Lithuanian victory, both swords were taken as a war trophy by King Władysław II to Kraków, Poland's capital at the time, and placed in the treasury of the Royal Wawel Castle.
The Polish sword was no different than swords used in the West – it was straight, with a blade 80–120 cm long, 1,0 - 1,8 kg of weight, having an almond-shaped pommel and a bar crossguard. [8] The spear, in Poland of the time referred to as "wood" (pol. drzewo ), was 3,5 - 4,5 m long, had a spearhead of lancet-like or leaf-like shape, but ...