Knights Templar History: Knights Templar Decorative Sword

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Knights Templar Decorative Sword

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FilmSwords is a company makes medieval decorative swords "as seen in the movies." This makes me believe that the Swedish film "Arn: The Knight Templar" is more popular than I thought.

Peter Johnsson (who works as designer for Albion) modelled it on a type of sword being used at the end of the 1100s. A well-known representative of this type exists and is preserved in the Kunsthistorisches Museum in Vienna: the sword of Saint Maurice, part of the imperial regalia of the Holy Roman Empire.

Arn was given his sword by his master and mentor, monk and one-time Templar, Brother Guilbert.

The sword bears an inscription "In hoc signo vinces" - "With this sign though shall be victorious." This motto is not exclusively a Templar device, but it was somewhat favored by the Knights of the Temple. Other than that I have nothing to say about the authenticity of the sword. Buy at your own risk!