11th Century Crusader Sword Full Tang Tempered Battle Ready Hand Forged WR-634 T

Weapons such as this Crusader Sword is one of the finest Knight's swords we have seen. The long battle sword is of traditional form. Swords such as this can be dated stylistically to the second half of the 11th Century AD and were used to fight in the First Crusade. The First Crusade was a Christian endorsed military incursion into the Holy Land and other areas controlled by the emerging Seljuk Turks, who invaded the eastern half of the Byzantine empire in the late 11th Century. The Muslim threat to Christendom, combined with the Papal instruction that Milites Christi, or Soldiers of Christ, would be pardoned for their sins, encouraged the plentiful European warrior-class to join together and recapture "Christian" territory. During the Crusades several "Kingdoms" were created, such as the Kingdom of Jerusalem, created during the First Crusade. These were essentially protectorates, where the Knights ruled over and subjugated the local population. The Crusader sword is a beautiful lookin