15th century cord

Cord of the 15th century used in the Grand Duchy of Lithuania and the Crown of the Kingdom of Poland.
Kord ON, this is an independent type of weapon. As Yuri Bohan writes in his article “The structure of the Grand Duchy of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania in the second half of the 14th – 15th centuries” the cord was indicated as an independent type of infantry weaponry in the legal documents of 1458. So the decree (snatched) of one from the Greater Poland Seymiks of 1458, demanded that people who did not have income from the «chynsha», straighten out every 20 «lan», infantry with a shield, helmet and cord.