General Grievous was widely feared for being a vicious Jedi killer during the Clone Wars,
and he was known to keep a vast collection of lightsaber hilts, most of which came from
his fallen victims.
So who’s lightsabers did Grievous own and how did he obtain them?
Grievous’ first lightsaber was actually given to him by Count Dooku shortly after
he had his cybernetic implants installed.
The lightsaber belonged to the Jedi Sifo-Dyas, whom Dooku had killed earlier.
The next lightsaber came to Grievous weeks later, during the battle of Geonosis.
Grievous was within the catacombs of the arena, watching the Jedi fight against the thousands
of battle droids unleashed on them.
He was ordered to remain hidden by Dooku, and when the clone army arrived, he was ordered
to retreat without having any witnesses know of his existence.
As he was making his escape, he came across Jedi master Ur-Sema Du.
She got separated from the main Jedi strike force and was on her own.
Still on orders to remain a secret to the outside world, Grievous struck her down and
collected her green lightsaber as a trophy.
4 months later, and Grievous would go on to collect at least 4 more lightsabers from the
Jedi Daakman Barrek, Tarr Seirr, Sha'a Gi, and K’Kruhk after killing the first 3, and
severely injuring the last one after ambushing them during the battle of Hypori.
At some point in the early stages of the Clone Wars, Grievous encountered a rogue darksider
who happened to have Darth Zannah's double bladed, saberstaff.
He easily killed the darksider and took the ancient Sith Lord’s lightsaber and added
it to his collection.
There’s no knowledge of him ever using it however.
At some point Grievous scored big in expanding his collection by at least adding 11 lightsabers
to it within a few days.
During an attack on a Republic vessel, Grievous briefly captured at least 7 Jedi younglings
and padawans, taking all of their lightsabers to his collection.
During this same time period, Grievous also killed Jedi Masters T'chooka D'oon and B'dard
Tone, as well as Jedi padawan Flynn Kybo.
Taking all of their lightsabers after their deaths.
Grievous’ battle droids also shot down Jedi Master Quarmall, who ended up surviving his
injuries, but nonetheless his lightsaber was taken by the cyborg general.
Sometime around the middle of the war, Jedi Master Jammaar was killed and his lightsaber
was taken by Grievous.
Actually, his lightsaber became one of Grievous’ favorites and one of the main 4 he used afterwards.
The reason for this was because Jammaar was one of the Jedi that was sent to fightback
Grievous’ people long ago during the Huk War.
So for him it was a bit personal, and killing the Jedi that fought against his people which
led to many of them to suffer after the Huk War brought great joy to Grievous which was
reflected in him fighting with his lightsaber afterwards.
Later in the war, Jedi Master Soon Bayts’ lightsaber was taken by Grievous after he
was killed by the cyborg.
There were multiple other Jedi that were known to have been killed by Grievous, but its unknown
if he took their lightsabers.
For example, he killed about half a dozen Jedi during his mission on capturing Palpatine
during the battle of Coruscant.
However, due to his time sensitive mission, it doesn’t seem like Grievous took the time
to collect any of the lightsabers that the fallen Jedi dropped.
He also briefly had Obi Wan and Anakin’s lightsaber in his collection, before they
were quickly stolen back by their original owners.
Grievous also had Adi Gallia’s lightsaber, but this was later retconned in The Clone
Wars tv show which showed her getting killed by Savage Opress instead.
Shaak Ti’s lightsaber was also originally supposed to be another one he obtained for
his collection, but Grievous killing her was never made official and only remained in a
deleted scene, as Shaak Ti was seen well and alive later on in the same movie, making her
death by him impossible.