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It was created around 1300 in Franconia and It remained in a Franconian monastery ( presumably in Eastern Franconia ) until the mid-16th century.

It is first mentioned by Henricus a Gunterrodt in his De veriis principiis artis dimicatoriae of 1579, where he reports it to have been acquired ( looted ) by a friend of his, one Johannes Herbart of Würzburg when serving in the force of Albert Alcibiades, Margrave of Brandenburg-Kulmbach in the campaigns of 1552 / 3.