To be a knight in Christian Europe during the Middle Ages was to be a holy warrior in theory if not always in application.  Your first duty, according to many texts, was to God, but God didn’t necessarily pay a knight’s bills, and often did what his paying lord did rather than his spiritual One.  It may, however, surprise you to learn that many knights, especially during the Crusades, actually took their duty to God seriously as well as to their king.  While many were, indeed, no better than gangsters, knights who took the code of Chivalry seriously were quite noble indeed and did protect their lands with justice and fairness as well as they could.  Faith built the character which in turn would become a light for which others would follow.  This power was not lost on many men who would come to emulate something of their forefathers who had demonstrated the courage to follow virtue instead of earthly pleasure.  The Christian Knight Sword, in this sense, represents this ideal perhaps better than other knight swords.  Shaped very much like a crucifix, this rather practical, plain looking sword has no ornamentation to speak of.  It was designed for a task; combat, and it was not meant to glorify that for that would mean glorifying killing, which, as you know, is a sin.  A knight was not to use his swords unless he had to in defense of the realm and of Christendom, and a good knight was careful never to make such action neither the last or the first resort.  Such a sword is a welcome addition to any collection.