Folia Historica 31. (Budapest, 2016)

I. KÖSZÖNTJÜK A 80 ÉVES T. NÉMETH ANNAMÁRIÁT - Kovács S. Tibor: A „konstábler bot" és a „huszas" buzogány. A középkori buzogányok és kései utódaik Magyarországon

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A Kállay-kormány tagjait bemutató fénykép, Budapest, 1942. március 10. MNM, Történeti Fényképtár

"CONSTABLE STICK" AND "TWENTY" MACE.

MACES IN HUNGARY FROM MIDDLE AGES TO MODERN TIMES

Summary

In 1167 at Zimony, in a battle between Hungarians and Byzantines the later used their iron maces (Korrhiné) successfully against the Hungarian heavy cavalry, who had no such weapon in their armour.

Descended from the late Roman army's weaponry, maces, mainly the four-knobbed, iron variety were adopted both by Byzantine infantry and cavalry from the 9th century on. (Fig. 1.)

Apart from the Byzantine types, Middle Eastern type maces (Fig. 2.) occur too, that are very similar to the ones used by the Seljuq troops in the 12-13th centuries, and even appear on contemporary coins. Among the orders taking part in the Crusades in the Middle East, the Knights Templar played an important role; the mace, namely the Seljuq-Turkish variety occurred among their weapons as far back as the 12th century.

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