1595 Meister Lorenz Römer, Freifechter
Master Lorenz Römer was already an old man, when he came to settle down. He was a Freyfechter and entitled to …
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1478-1523 Marxbruder Nicklaus Bruckner
Nicklaus Bruckner the knife maker, entered the house of the Nürnberger Zwölfbrüderstiftung on Monday 6th of November 1519. The Nuremberg Twelve Brothers …
1544 Fechtmeister of the Marxbrüder Ludwig Stollen of Mainz
The following open letter was made for the Marxbrüder Meister Ludwig Stolle of Mainz listed in the The Marxbrüder chronicle from the …
1542 Marxbrüder Meister Caspar Steringer of Erfurt
The following letter of 1542 describes the regulation of the bout between two fencing masters in the 16th century of …
1561 Onophrius Sockh, a Marxbruder and veteran of war of Vienna
Onoferus Sockh was the owner of a house in the Krämergässchen in Vienna in 15644, later owned by Adam Forberg. …
1492 The signum of the Frankfurt fencing masters
On folio 1r in the codex I.6.2°.5 of the Universitätsbibliothek Augsburg we find a date by a year number “1491” and the title “Memmorj …
1582 a bloody Fechtschule in Brieg, Brzeg
On page 24 in 1870s Wassmannsdorf “Sechs Fechtschulen” {1} he is largely citing a book of 1861 titled “Reisen und …
Chronicle of the Fencing Guilds in Augsburg
Augsburg was a center of fencing activity like Nürnberg and Frankfurt. It’s early fencing show (Fechtschule) tradition starts at the …
1606 Regulation of the fencing in Breslau, Wrocław
It is reported that the Fechtschul (fencing school) was a big amusement, with high intense of emotions often ending in …
1745 a Fechtschul of the Marxbrüder in Frankfurt
One of the late accounts of a appeal for Fechtschul is found in the “Vollständiges Diarium von der höchst-erfreulichen Crönung …
