![]() ![]() It was first used as a coronation sword by Ladislaus the Short in 1320. ![]() However, the Golden Gate was only constructed in 1037 and the sword is actually dated to the late 12th or 13th century. Straight double-edged ( Oakeshott type XII) įlat with an arched crossguard (Oakeshott type 6) and a flat round pommel (Oakeshott type I) Ī legend links Szczerbiec with King Boleslaus I the Brave who was said to have chipped the sword by hitting it against the Golden Gate of Kiev during his intervention in the Kievan succession crisis in 1018. Pictorial documentation of Szczerbiec made in 1764 by Johann Christoph Werner, court painter to King Stanislaus Augustus of Poland
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