Also known as
Hieronimo de Carança · Jerónimo de Carranza
Description
Spanish nobleman, knight and fencing master from Seville, in the service of
the Duke of Medina Sidonia, later governor of Honduras and head master of arms
at court. His treatise De la Filosofía de las Armas (written 1569, printed 1582)
founded la Verdadera Destreza, a fencing system based on geometry and
philosophy; later Spanish masters honoured him as its first inventor.
Students (1)
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person
Luis Pacheco de Narváez
sports_martial_artsLa Verdadera Destreza
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Independent sources state it.
“Carranza was a gentleman, and his student Don Luis Pacheco Narvaez (1570–1640)
was a nobleman, personal arms instructor to the Spanish king Philip IV
(1605–1665), and admiral-general in the Spanish navy.”
— Green, Thomas A.; Svinth, Joseph R.. (2010).
Martial Arts of the World: An Encyclopedia of History and Innovation
info
“Born in Baeza, Jaén in the early 1570s, he became the greatest student of
Jerónimo Sánchez de Carranza”
Sources
“When Jerónimo Sánchez de Carranza (sixteenth century) published his La
Philosophia de las Armas (The Philosophy of Arms) in 1582, he based it on the
sacred geometry so popular in European alchemical and mathematical circles of
the fifteenth to seventeenth centuries.”
— Green, Thomas A.; Svinth, Joseph R.. (2010).
Martial Arts of the World: An Encyclopedia of History and Innovation
info
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Muñoz, Frederico (YEAR_PLACEHOLDER). Jerónimo Sánchez de Carranza. In Martialis:
Martial Arts Lineage Database.
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@incollection{martialis_01M5JTMYPE1DNWMXMXKNQTR3V3, author = {Muñoz, Frederico},
title = {Jerónimo Sánchez de Carranza}, booktitle = {Martialis: Martial Arts
Lineage Database}, year = {YEAR_PLACEHOLDER}, url =
{https://martial.is/entity/01M5JTMYPE1DNWMXMXKNQTR3V3}, urldate =
{ACCESSED_DATE_PLACEHOLDER}, note = {CC BY-SA 4.0} }
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