 Johann Pistorius detailed the history of the sword as having been given by the queen-mother of King Salomon of Hungary to Otho, Duke of Bavaria, who had urged the emperor to reinstate Salomon's possessions.Otho had given it to Dedus, younger son of the Margrave Dedus.The king received it after his death,  giving it to the royal counselor Leopold de Mersburg,  whose death—it was asserted by partisans of his rival, Otho—had been a divine judgment.