If a 'skilled' (with sword) executioner was summoned from Calais, did he bring his own 'equipment' and, if so, is there record of him & it there?
Was the sword seized when Francis, Duke of Guise retook the area in Calais' fall of 1558? And if so, where would it have gone?
As the oldest known such executionersexecutioner's sword dates from 1540, has it been lost, destroyed or 'archived'?