ARMORUM ARCHIVE
French nobleman in the service of Jean d’Anjou and author of a fifteenth-century text transmitted in the later collection of judicial-duel, tournament and pas d’armes treatises.
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German Protestant theologian, educator, parliamentarian and participant in the early gymnastics and student-association movements. Heinrich Riemann is catalogued as the author of the 1834 manual Vollständige Anweisung zum Stoßfechten.
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German fencing writer who, at about twenty-two, prepared the manuscript Sciomachia et hoplomachia and published De veris principiis artis dimicatoriae in 1579.
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French jurist, politician and fencer; founder of the Société d'encouragement à l'escrime.
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British barrister, all-round sportsman, member of the London Fencing Club and author of popular instructional works on fencing. Henry Arthur Colmore-Dunn also contributed fencing material to the Handbook of Athletic Sports.
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English smallsword author associated with `The English Fencing-Master` and `The Gentleman's Tutor for the Small Sword`. His publications belong to the early eighteenth-century London market for polite martial instruction, where fencing manuals were shaped for gentlemen, students, and urban readers seeking practical but socially respectable training.
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French editor and historian of fencing who published the statutes of the Paris masters-at-arms and compiled Archives des maîtres d’armes de Paris from institutional and archival documents.
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English aristocrat, courtier and prolific Elizabethan-Jacobean manuscript author. Around 1613 he wrote Duello Foiled during the royal investigation of duelling; copies survive in the Ashmole manuscript collection.
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British author associated with `Observations on Swords`, a mid-nineteenth-century work on military blades directed to officers and civilians concerned with sword quality and effectiveness. He belongs to the industrial and military world of Victorian edged-weapon manufacture and evaluation rather than to the salle d’armes tradition proper.
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English Church of England clergyman, author and lecturer.
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German fencing author responsible for Das Freifechten (Leipzig, 1865) and Das Geräthfechten, covering stick, staff, sabre and sword fencing (1877). Dates of life remain unresolved.
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French fencing master sent to the University of Ingolstadt by the Elector of Bavaria. His bilingual 1721 manual synthesized Italian, German, Spanish and French practice.
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