Andre Paurenfeyndt · Lineage tree

“In 1516, he wrote and published a fencing manual entitled Ergrundung Ritterlicher Kunst der Fechterey ("Founding of the Chivalric Art of Swordplay"), which seems to have been the first illustrated fencing treatise ever published.”

“The earliest known printed fencing text was made by a German named Pauerenfeindt in 1516.”