Malleus Martialis Swords

«Man is a dream about a shadow. But when some splendour falls upon him from above, a shining light rests upon men, and a gentle life.»
— Pindar, Pythian Odes 8, 95–97 (446 BC)

The Chevalier is back and out soon. Now fully ambidextrous.
DM or email to reserve yours in advance!

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thanks to Nicolás, who also works here as a swordsmith apprentice and graciously agreed to be a model for this shoot :)
thanks to Fornace Masini Impruneta for the ellenic vibes of their location!

MEYER RAPPIER REDESIGN ✨️
robinswords wasn't totally convinced by our previous Meyer Rappier. The knuckle bow didn't leave enough room for a gauntlet fully below the cross. Then we redesigned it taking his advice, and he gave the new one five months of weekly sparring.

What he found was a sword with two distinct personalities. Hold it for the cut and it has authority and blade presence. Shift your grip, get the thumb on the Schilt, and the tip becomes something else entirely: responsive, precise, easy to place exactly where you need it.

The hilt and blade took everything he threw at it. Longsword, military saber, sidesword. Some scuffs, nothing severe. Thanks also to the *bombproof* hilt, to say it in his words :)

Nothing's perfect, and we're happy to acknowledge it: Rob flagged the grip profile and the guard quillon block edge: we need to make the grip more rectangular and the quillon block edge more rounded. Both are addressed in every Meyer Rappier from now on and we're also sending him a replacement grip to test.

Features:
• Knuckle bow widened for full mobility with gauntlets
• Grip reshaped to 9 cm, + the 1 cm pommel neck for a comfortable hand position
• Diamond blade with Schilt | 106 cm overall | max width 3.5 cm
• Weight: 1020 gr (+/-50) | PoB: 9 cm from the cross
• High flex | thickened tip | 50 HRC
• Modular Sword System™, fully dismountable
• Cord and leather grip options available

And then there is the part that is harder to put into specs: everyone he handed it to came back grinning.

Thanks Rob! And you, go watch the full review on YT ❤️‍🔥

Order yours at the link in bio.

*LIUTGER UPDATE*
Since the beginning, the Liutger Arming Sword was designed for medieval sword and buckler practice, with the proportions and dynamics following what the combat manual MS I.33 asks of a sword: a broad but agile blade that works with the buckler as a unit, across the assaults described in the treatise.

Here's what changed based on your feedback:
→ Straight octagonal guard as the base option
→ Curved octagonal guard available if that's what your practice calls for
→ Leather chappe is default now, and removable if your approach is different
→ 4 new leather colors alongside the original 3
→ Customize your chappe body and rim with any color combination, included in the price

Getting here meant a choice: the curved guard became a premium option, as it needs to be forged individually. What that made room for: the straight guard, the leather chappe, the full grip color range, and every match that comes with it - all part of the base sword.

Overall 88 cm | 71 cm blade | 1 kg | 8.5 cm PoB | High flex | Modular (MSS™).

Grab the one in stock: green leather, straight guard, green chappe 💚
https://malleusmartialis.com/product/liutger-arming-sword/

May 1st, 1282 | The Poet in exile walks the piazza in the cold morning, one foot ahead of the other, eyes on the pavement. Under the stones, the memory of two thousand dead is still buried. He stands there long enough that the cold finds its way through his woolen lucco, and this drives him towards the Ordelaffi's Palazzo, where his Commedia is waiting.

"La terra che fe' già la lunga prova / e di Franceschi sanguinoso mucchio, / sotto le branche verdi si ritrova." Dante Alighieri, Inferno, XXVII
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Eighteen years earlier, on the morning of the first of May, Commander Guido da Montefeltro opened the gates of the last Ghibelline fortress, Forlì, and let Pope Martin IV's French armies in. They had been cold and hungry for months, and the city that received them was warm and full of wine; no one was fighting back, so they drank.

By evening the fires had died down and the streets had gone quiet. A figure climbed the tower of San Mercuriale and rang the bells. Mars had moved toward Capricorn, and that figure, the renowned astrologer Guido Bonatti, had predicted it to the Commander.

In the torchlight, in the noise, in the narrow streets that the cavalry did not know and the besieged knew by heart, short fullered swords came out.
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In a monastery courtyard, the same sword silhouette moves slowly in the first light. A student raises it into guard, breath coming out white, and across from him a priest waits with his buckler forward and his eyes on the blade. Someone is writing it all down on the stone ledge beside them: the angle, the bind, the siege. The same pale light falls on the steel across every border in this world.
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Soon, a new version of the Liutger Arming Sword is on the way.
Stay tuned at malleusmartialis.com

Most people, when they think of a sword in a stone, think of Arthur. The boy king, the moment that changes everything. Few think of Galgano, the knight who put his sword into the rock not to claim a throne, but to renounce war.

The legend, as usual, is more complicated than the cinematic versions most of us grew up with. There are nine centuries of retellings, and lots of different swords that somehow became one.

For a swordmaker, getting to what is actually right requires the willingness to reach past the comfortable image and into the actual evidence.

Bespoke swords like the Aineias, the Clementia, and the Galavant were born from this philosophy.

The full story about the sword in the stone, told from a swordmaking perspective is on the blog ⚔️

https://malleusmartialis.com/educational/the-sword-in-the-stone-history-legend/

NEW IN - DIESTRO 2 Sidesword

The Diestro was named after its versatility in teaching and learning both the sword and the systems it was dedicated to: Iberian Destreza and the Italian school of sidesword, two fencing styles that put geometry above everything else.

Now, a new Diestro configuration is ready to shine in your hand.
Where the first model kept straight quillons for ambidextrous versatility, the Diestro in the configuration 2 follows the Marozzo line: curved, fishtail-shaped quillons whose geometry does active work. The curvature catches and rotates against the opponent's blade, sheaving it out of line.

Two in stock.
🔗 https://malleusmartialis.com/product/diestro-sidesword-in-stock/
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FLOS LONGSWORD | THE RETURN ⚔️
There’s a compromise at the core of a lot of training. A federschwert can take you far. But at some point, it becomes a burden. You study Fiore dei Liberi, but you practice with something built for a different purpose. Often for good reasons: accessibility, cost, availability - but still a compromise.

So the interpretation adapts. It has to. But the Flos Longsword was designed and improved to reduce this gap, aligning more closely with the handling and structure of historical originals:

- More pronounced triangular blade geometry
• Now also available in a dismountable version within our Modular Sword System™, featuring the new truncated pyramid button, that disassembles in under one minute with a wrench, included in the box
• The disc pommel has been slightly increased in mass and refined, with hollow faces

Specs:
– Weight: always around 1500 g
– Tip: thickened, rounded
– Ideal use: historically accurate reenactment, stage combat, technical study

It is not optimized for HEMA sparring. The stiffness is intentional, and follows the needs of martial reconstruction rather than competitive exchange.

If the tool reflects the system, the system can be studied without adjustment.

1 in stock | specs and details: https://malleusmartialis.com/product/flos-longsword/

There's an ideal in knighthood that being formidable and being refined were (and are) the same discipline. Historically, that excellence was legible: it lived in the way you moved, in the code you answered to, and in the objects you chose to carry. The sword was a statement of intent, worn on the hip, readable to anyone who knew what they were looking at.

In 1409, Fiore dei Liberi drew the longsword at the center of his system.
The 'Flos Longsword' is our interpretation of that sword, now updated and informed by the master's depictions and by surviving examples like the sword attributed to the Black Prince.

What's new?

- Slimmer blade profile, closer to the handling of a historical original
- Available hot-peened or dismountable: blade and tang remain one continuous piece of steel in both cases, no welds.

The Flos isn't built for HEMA sparring, the rigidity and the guard anatomy aren't built for sport exchanges. It's dedicated to those who study the martial techniques, for collection, reenactment, stage combat, and cinema. Six centuries later, the Flower of Battle is still in bloom.

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Is your sword working against you?
In HEMA, there are two kinds of fencers. And they don't always agree on what makes a sword "right."

• The competitors. They train like athletes, think like athletes. The sword matters, but the athletic gesture and physical performance usually matter more.
• The martial historians. Source material, period geometry, handling fidelity. They're not just training. They're proving a theory. And the sword is the evidence.

Are you both? Excellent, but here's what nobody says clearly enough:

IT IS NOT THE SAME SWORD.
And pretending it is, is how you waste money , and potentially get hurt.

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→ What to look for then?

• In tournament swords
- Flexibility first. If your host organizer isn't testing this or does not have reasonable parameters (or none at all), ask why.
- Edge and corner rounding. Sharp profiles are dangerous: not a finishing preference, but a baseline.
- Thick edges ≠ quality. A sword designed only to survive contact isn't designed to perform.

• In study swords
- Flexibility is not required, it varies by model, depending on the original anatomy.
- Edge rounding still matters, as above.
- Everything else (edge thickness, point width) can be reduced, and employed at modulated intensity, with the right guidance.

For both, the sword can be safe, but doesn't make you safer, training does. Intensity needs to be taught, not assumed. Both ways are serious. That's why we don't cut corners on either.

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Most people pick a sword. The sharp ones know why.

📩 DM us - tell us where you stand and we'll find you the right blade.
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BELLADAMA KNIGHTLY SWORD | You lost it in battle. We brought it back to you.
Sheathed in the steel of your harness, your legs hit the flanks of the Frisian horse, the clash of blades mingled with the harsh rhythm of your breath. The murmur of the river was buried beneath the shouting, the pounding of hooves, and the anxious whinnying of horses, while the hiss of arrows swept across the field.

In a single instant, a thin, trembling chime rose over the chaos as the blade was struck from your gauntleted hand and cast into the water, carried away by the river's current.

The sword went down alone. Into the cold. Into the dark.
The mud closed over it. The reeds grew around it.
Centuries passed, quiet and indifferent, and left their marks.
Now it returns to you, finally.
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We took inspiration from the Wallace Collection's treasure, stripped of its 19th-century restorations and alterations, and paired it with a reconstruction of a preserved 14th-century English scabbard from the London Museum. This was a substantial undertaking, a collaboration where art conservation and artisanality went hand in hand.

The result is a sword of collector's quality and museum-grade accuracy: fully functional, authentic, and worthy of the modern knight's side.

Specs:

Period: 14th - 15th century
Pommel: J1 [Oakeshott]
Blade Typology: Type XV or XVIII [Oakeshott]
Blade Anatomy: Diamond cross section
Cross: Style 8, curved [Oakeshott]
Overall Length: 85 cm
Blade Length: 67,8 cm
Max Blade Width: 6 cm
Cross Width: 21 cm
Grip Length: 10 cm (pommel not included)
PoB: 4.5 cm
Edge Thickness: 1.5 mm
Weight: 1300 gr. (±50 gr.)
Tip: Rounded
Hardening: 50 HRC
Flexibility: 15 - 18 kg | Zero Flex

1 in stock now | An impossibly rare chance.
https://malleusmartialis.com/product/belladama-knightly-sword/