European fencing

Also known as

Fencing · European swordsmanship · Western fencing

Description

The European art of the sword and related weapons, as taught by masters of defence from the late Middle Ages: the German school of Liechtenauer, the Italian schools of Fiore dei Liberi and Bologna, the Spanish Destreza, the English masters of defence, and the later rapier, smallsword and classical schools from which the modern sport descends. Masters taught wrestling, dagger and polearms with the sword.

Longest documented lines

2 generations

Fiore dei Liberi Johane dicto Suveno Nicholai de Toblem
2 generations

Esme Beringer Alfred Hutton Henry Charles Angelo

Sources

“The oldest surviving treatise on western fencing is the Royal Armouries Ms. I.33, also known as the Tower manuscript, written c. 1300 in present-day Germany, which discusses the usage of the arming sword together with the buckler.”

— Fencing - Wikipedia (English). Wikipedia (English) link history info

“The first evidence of a continuous, European tradition begins two generations later, with the German grandmaster Johannes Liechtenauer.”

— Green, Thomas A.; Svinth, Joseph R.. (2010). Martial Arts of the World: An Encyclopedia of History and Innovation info

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