Chronological listing of Polish-Lithuanian and Hungarian sabers

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25 - Tomb effigy of Serédy György (†1557) at St. Egidius/Sz. Egyed Church in Bártfán/Bardejov, Slovakia.

Immediately after Serédy's death, his widow, Katalin Byczynski, had it installed. The material is variegated marble with a reddish base tone. It was originally used as a lid for a stone coffin; this was dismantled in the 18th century. Parts of its sides are walled up in various places of the Sz. Egyed church, and partly used for altar tables. The inscription engraved on both sides of the stone slab: MAGNIFICVS DOMINVS GEORGIVS DE SERED OBIIT DIE 23 MENSIS APRILIS ANNO D[OMI]NI 1557.

From "Memory from the past, display for the future - early modern funeral monuments from the Transylvanian principlality by Dora Merai" we learn that it "was commissioned from Hieronymus Canavesi in Cracow by Katarzyna Buczynska de Olszyn, who also came from Poland".

Katarzyna Buczyńska remarried in 1558 with Olbracht Łaski, the heir of Kežmarok and extensive estates in Hungary and Spisz, later the starost of Spiš (recorded in 1581). She died in 1581. (Aedifico et Conservo. Eskalacja jakości kształcenia zawodowego w Polsce. Kontynuacja edycji projektu z l. 2010-2011)

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Note: Seredy Gyorgy's sabre seems to have the same cropped acorn-cap as Ferdinand's sabre and this one at the Museo delle Arti Marziali, Brescia in Italy (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QcXlasRbkm8). They both seem to be modified Ottoman hilts (notice the faceted hilt, meaning octogonal or hexagonal cross-section of the handles), with long quillons.