Alabarda española, s.XIX.

This halberd is a weapon enastada of shaft of wood about two metres long and he has in his "head of weapons" a spear tip as a bib upper, a blade transverse leaf-shaped axe on one side, and another breastplate of punctured or to engage more small by its opposite.

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While China was employed from time immemorial certain types of weapons-staff with functions that are very similar, its medieval form was introduced in Europe around 1300 by the German and scandinavian ^{[citation needed]}. Although its popularity came from the hands of the swiss mercenaries.

The halberd in the History

It was used with great success as infantry weapon since the end of the Middle Ages to the SEVENTEENTH century. The use of this weapon in infantry battles, which resulted in wins face troops with heavy cavalry, reformed the composition of the armies and returned to give a vital importance to the infantry.

It was his fame so well deserved that many troops or bodies of the elite of the nobility of the beard, on versions of "ostentatious", with some military corps that is still used these days in public events and military parades as a weapon ceremonial. Today, the Royal Guards Alabarderos Spanish or the Swiss Guard of the Vatican used this weapon not only ceremonially, but they are also trained to wield it as a weapon of combat.

The soldier is armed with a halberd was called alabardero. Also it is called thus to the soldier performs guard of honour to the kings of Spain. It is a body of elite of the Royal Guard Spanish, who are direct custodians of the Real People, they are guard and protection to foot.

There are other weapons of antler that were contemporary to the halberd, and which could enter into the family of this, as the partesana, which is equivalent to a halberd with the iron very large and wide in shape of a half moon and shear for both sides; and the Naginata, which was used by the Samurai of feudal Japan. Similar to the halberd, the Naginata has a blade more slender and aerodynamic than that of a halberd.