On the original post, the paintings of the Thirty Years War, such as the highly detailed ones by Sebastiaen Vrancx and Peter Snayer, show a proliferation of complex hilted, straight bladed weapons.
They also regularly appear on the infantry figures in C17th drill books.
I have a weapon not unlike this, which someone on this forum identified for me as a Dutch cavalry weapon of the 1620s - 30s. Its lost the small shells in the guard, but has a complex hilt and robust tapering blade.
Here's Vrancx's 'Soldiers plundering' c.1620. Look at the forground and background soldiers
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