The twelfth century poem Yonec by Marie de France includes the character Cormac holding a man at sword point according to "The Ring, the Sword, the Fancy Dress, and the Posthumous Child: Background to the Element of Heroic Biography in Marie de France's Yonec" (Matthieu Boyd, 2008). Similarly in Thomas Malory's Le Morte d'Arthur (1469/1470) in "The Tale of Sir Launcelot Du Lake" Lancelot pressures Belleus at sword-point according to Catherine La Farge 's "Launcelot in Compromising Positions: Fabliau in Malory's 'Tale of Sir Launcelot Du Lake", 2011). And there is a scene in Hamlet where Laertes and followers confront Claudius armed.

For a real life example in 1776 there was an incident where a Spanish colonial Captain violated sanctuary by driving out a wanted man from a church at sword-point (SPANISH CRIME AND PUNISHMENT: THE NATIVE AMERICAN EXPERIENCE IN COLONIAL SAN DIEGO, 1769-1830", Richard L. Carrico, 1990). And in July 1593 Francis Stewart, Earl of Bothwell confronted James VI of Scotland sword-in-hand while the king was on the toilet ("Elizabeth: the Forgotten Years", John Guy, 2016). There was also the incident of Thomas of Lancaster and his followers showing up armed to parliament to pressure Edward II, and the Lords Appellants appearing similarly before Richard II, this tactic appears to have been used a number of times by oppositional barons at parliament during Plantagenet times.

So wielding or visibly carrying a sword to pressure, antagonise or force someone is something that has happened historically and was talked about and imagined in historical times. It is not simply a modern invention.