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The scabbard of the sword is adorned with 14 gold plates engraved with depictions of monarchs. These pictures date to the eleventh century, and are thus about a century older than the sword itself. The figures have been identified as depicting the consecutive German monarchs from
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The first known explicit mention of the sword dates to 1315, in a letter of a lady-in-waiting of
Elisabeth of Aragon, wife to Frederick III. It may also be referenced in an inventory of 1246, which mentions merely
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and an invocation of Christ as legitimation for secular power and the
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