A sabre is what type of weapon?
Sabre a cavalry weapon, it also came to replace various types of straight-bladed swords used by infantry. The Swiss sabre originated as a regular sword with a single-edged blade in the early 16th century, but by the 17th century began to exhibit specialized hilt types. In the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth (16th–18th century) a specific type of sabre-like melee weapon, the "szabla", was used. Richly decorated sabres were popular among the Polish nobility, who considered it to be one of the most important pieces of men's traditional attire. With time, the design of the sabre greatly evolved in the commonwealth and gave birth
Sabre of Charlemagne Sabre of Charlemagne The so-called Sabre of Charlemagne (German: "Säbel Karls des Großen") is an early sabre of Hungarian (Magyar) type (presumably made in the early 10th century) falsely reputed to have belonged to the ruler Charlemagne which has exceptionally been preserved (as opposed to recovered from the archaeological record) as part of the Aachen regalia of the Holy Roman Empire. Along with the rest of the imperial regalia from both Aachen and Nuremberg, it is now kept in the Hofburg Palace, Vienna. The Sabre of Charlemagne is not to be confused with a second weapon which is also ascribed