Subject: Trabantengarde noble bodyguard

Culture: German Saxon

Setting: Reformation, Germany late 16th-17thc

Object: polearms

* Metropolitan Museum of Art > Stone Gallery of Arms and Armor

"Staff Weapons Carried by the Bodyguards of the Prince-Electors of Saxony Left to right:

1. Glaive, probably of August I (reigned 1553-86) Etched steel, wood German, about 1560 ...

2. Halberd of Christian II (reigned 1601-11) Etched steel, wood German, dated 1601 ...

3. Partisan of Johann Georg II (reigned 1656-80) Etched steel, wood German, about 1660 ...

4. Halberd of Christian I (reigned 1586-91) or Christian II (reigned 1601-11)

Steel, etched and gilt; wood German, about 1590-1610 ...

5. Halberd of the Swiss Guard of Johann Georg II (reigned 1656-80)

Steel, etched, blued, and gilt; wood German, dated 1680 ...

6. Partisan of Johann Georg I (reigned 1611-56) Etched steel, wood German, about 1625" ...

"7. Halberd of the Swiss Guard of Johann Georg II (reigned 1656-80)

Steel, etched, blued, and gilt; wood German, dated 1680 ...

8. Halberd of Christian I (reigned 1586-91) Steel, etched and gilt; wood German, about 1590 ...

9. Halberd of Johann Georg I of Saxony (1585-1656) as administrator of the bishopric of Meresburg

Etched steel, wood German, dated 1609 ...

10. Partisan of the Swiss Guard of Friedrich August I (reigned 1694-1733)

Steel, etched and pierced; wood German, about 1725 ...

11. Partisan of the Polish Noble Guard of Friedrich August I, who twice ruled as king of Poland (1697-1733)

Steel, pierced, etched, and gilt; wood German, about 1720" ...