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in the monastery of San Salvador de Oña—that the heraldic design represented by the four hoods or helmets, with borders of gold fleur-de-lis, belongs to the Count of Bureba, Don Rodrigo Gomez, the epitaph on whose grave reads: "His name was as famous in Spain as was that of Themistocles at Athens."

 

Fig. 102. Sword, probably early XIIIth century

Collection: Count von Erbach zu Erbach. From Hefner-Alteneck's "Waffen, etc."

Fig. 103. From an illumination assigned by the late Herr Hefner-Alteneck to the end of the XIIth century, but which, in the opinion of the present writer, dates from the early years of the XIIIth century

From Hefner-Alteneck's "Waffen, etc."

The knightly sword of the transitional XIIth-XIIIth century type, with its large pommel, either of what we term the Brazil nut form or of the wheel form, its heavy straight quillons, its broad blade, as yet but lightly tapered, should be quite familiar, for it appears in nearly every contemporary illumination. If we look at the later illustrations of which we have made use up to this point to assist us in the description of other armaments, we find that in most instances the wheel-pommeled sword is there, varying only in the thickness of its quillons or the length of its grip. Of this type we are able to give an illustration (Fig. 100) from an authentic specimen in the Musée d'Artillerie of Paris. The pommel is of flat wheel form, and the