A misericorde was a long, narrow knife used during the High Middle Ages to deliver mercy killings to mortally wounded knights. It was designed to be thin enough to strike through the gaps in a knight's armour. This description is adapted from Wikipedia contributors under CC BY-SA 4.0; changes were made. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/
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Weapon Class (category)Sword / Polearm / Bladed 1 Sources
1. Wikipedia: Misericorde (weapon)
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- Weapon class (sword-polearm-blade) is a pre-industrial/melee weapon type by its own nature per the entity's own sourced description text; not carried in current active military service.
Article text
The misericorde was known from the 12th century and has appeared in the armaments of England, Germany, and Persia.
In Group: Medieval Daggers, Lead sentence
A misericorde ( or ; from French miséricorde, "mercy"; itself derived from the Latin misericordia, "act of mercy") was a long and narrow knife used during the High Middle Ages to deliver mercy killings to mortally wounded knights, as it was designed to be thin enough to strike through the gaps in their armour.
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