Jerónimo Sánchez de Carranza

Spain
Born 1539~, Seville

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)

  • Luis Pacheco de Narváez
    sports_martial_artsLa Verdadera Destreza Confirmed
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    Frederico Muñoz
    Researcher, Martialis
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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”
    — Luis Pacheco de Narvaez - Wiktenauer. Wiktenauer link history info

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
Jerónimo Sánchez de Carranza - Wiktenauer. Wiktenauerlink history info

Identifiers

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