Koncerz
Illustration — A koncerz with a conventional cutting edge A koncerz is a type of sword used by Polish-Lithuanian cavalry in the Renaissance period. It is a narrow and long thrusting sword, generally used by a type of heavy cavalry (husaria, the famed Polish hussars) and optimized to defeat body armor, either by piercing directly through the metal links of mail armour or by thrusting at the exposed gaps between the plates of plate armour, but was not used to cut or slash at enemy combatants. The koncerz originated from a medieval sword and appeared at the end of the 15th century when it was about 1.3 m long, and relatively unwieldy compared to single-handed thrusting swords designed for use by infantry.
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The koncerz was used more like a lance while mounted on horseback; it provided the rider with a very long reach in a relatively compact and portable format that was suitable to carry as a sidearm (the primary weapon of hussars was a kopia, a very long lance). The closest Western European equivalent is the long two-handed thrusting sword, known as an estoc, or 'tuck'.
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- 1.Beauplan, Guillaume le Vasseur : de (1660), Description d'Ukraine, qui sont plusieurs prouinces du royaume de Pologne. Contenues depuis les confins de la Moscouie, iusques aux limites de la Transilvanie. Ensemble leurs moevrs, fançons de viures, & de faire la Guerre. Par le Sieur de Beavplan, Rouen, p. 104; Stefańska, Zofia (1968), Muzeum Wojska Polskiego w Warszawie, Katalog zbiorów wiek XVII, Varsavia, s. 36
- 2.Żygulski, Zdzisław (1975), Broń w dawnej Polsce, Varsavia, s. 272, avanzò l'ipotesi che il koncerz potesse essere utilizzato dagli husaria più anziani quale sostituto della kopia (la lancia degli husaria) durante le cariche.
- 3.Beauplan, Guillaume le Vasseur : de, Op. Cit., p. 104
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