ARMORUM ARCHIVE
Spanish soldier, governor and fencing theorist traditionally regarded as the founder of Verdadera Destreza; his philosophical treatment of arms reshaped Spanish fencing literature.
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German fencing master, military officer and physical educator who taught at Leipzig, founded a gymnastics academy and teacher-training school in Dessau, and promoted therapeutic and women’s gymnastics.
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English cleric proposed in modern scholarship as the author of Of Knyghthode and Bataile, a Middle English verse adaptation of Vegetius produced around 1460; the attribution remains disputed.
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English engraver, antiquary and writer whose illustrated studies of English customs, dress, games and pastimes preserve important evidence for historical martial and sporting practices.
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Bohemian-born Austrian writer, engraver and fencing master active in Vienna, author of treatises on thrust and cut fencing on foot and horseback.
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Spanish military fencing author whose manuals treated sabre fencing on foot and horseback and individual defence with the bayonet against cavalry.
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King of France from 1643 to 1715; represented here as the issuing authority for royal edicts concerning duels.
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French fencing master and writer Jean-Louis-Laurent-Justin Lafaugère, commonly catalogued as Louis-Justin Lafaugère. He developed a distinctive post-Revolutionary method, published fencing treatises and verse, and was translated into Spanish by Antonio Marín.
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Spanish verdadera destreza master from Écija, active in Seville, and author of several works defending Carranza’s doctrine, including manuscripts revised around 1639–1640.
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German military fencing writer responsible for works on foil, bayonet instruction and the army’s practice of bayonet fencing between 1845 and 1861.
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Fifteenth-century German fencing master whose six-part long-sword recital survives in the Codex Speyer and later witnesses and is associated, with some uncertainty, with the Liechtenauer tradition.
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Dutch wrestling master whose Klare Onderrichtinge der Voortreffelijcke Worstel-Konst was published posthumously in 1674 with illustrations by Romeyn de Hooghe.
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