Montante
Sign in to savethumb|100px|Montante from 15th or 16th centuries. The montante is a two-handed sword used primarily in Spain and Portugal during the 15th to 17th centuries.
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thumb|100px|Montante from 15th or 16th centuries. The montante is a two-handed sword used primarily in Spain and Portugal during the 15th to 17th centuries.
It developed from the longswords of the Late Middle Ages and the Renaissance. Its characteristics are a middle step between a standard European longsword and a German zweihänder, which it developed simultaneously with.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Montante” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.