Girard Thibault

Belgium
Born 1574~, Antwerp
Died 1627

Also known as

Gérard Thibault d'Anvers · Girard Thibault d'Anvers

Description

Fencing master from Antwerp who studied first under Lambert van Someron, then the Spanish Destreza at Sanlúcar de Barrameda (1605), won a masters' competition at Rotterdam about 1611 and taught in the Netherlands. His posthumous Academie de l'Espée (1628) is one of the most elaborate fencing books, joining Destreza-like geometry with occult and Pythagorean symbolism.

Teachers (1)

  • Lambert van Someron
    sports_martial_artsEuropean fencing Probable
    Probable
    Single source.
    The evidence favours the claim and nothing credible contradicts it, but it falls short of establishing it.
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    Frederico Muñoz
    Researcher, Martialis
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    Single source.
    “Thibault first studied fencing in Antwerp under Lambert van Someron, who taught between the years of 1564 and 1584.”
    — Girard Thibault d'Anvers - Wiktenauer. Wiktenauerlink history info

Sources

“There, he took an interest in fencing, studying the Spanish rapier system of Destreza.”
— Girard Thibault d'Anvers - Wiktenauer. Wiktenauerlink history info
“Academie de l'Espée describes a unique system of combat whose closest known relative is the contemporary Spanish school of swordsmanship, also known as La Verdadera Destreza”
— Gérard Thibault d'Anvers - Wikipedia (English). Wikipedia (English)link history info

Identifiers

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Muñoz, Frederico (YEAR_PLACEHOLDER). Girard Thibault. In Martialis: Martial Arts Lineage Database. https://martial.is/entity/01M5JTMYPEYRC7G02MMJMR402R - CC BY-SA 4.0. Accessed ACCESSED_DATE_PLACEHOLDER.
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