Heavy cavalry and longswords

[Rodolfo Martínez]

Hello people.

Do you know if during the first half of the XVI century, long/bastard/war or hand and a half swords were used by heavy cavalry soldiers (Like French Gendarmes, or Italian Condottieri) while mounted?

Thanks.

[Dave Neeson]

not sure about the 16th century but there is a picture in the macijoviski (spelling?) bible of a knight with something resembeling a 2 handed sword being used form horseback but this is dated to the mid 1200's
happy searching.

[LafayetteCCurtis]

French archiers--the mounted archers who turned into heavy cavalrymen--were noted as carrying an espee a deux mains ("two-handed sword," though seeing the context it's probably a longsword rather than a zweihander) each, but I'm not sure about them using it in action. On the other hand, Jacques Callot's engravings depict some 17th-century cavalrymen swinging their ordinarily one-handed swords with two hands, presumably by gripping the pommel.