Masters

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Types of Masters

There are a few basic types of masters that we encounter in the study of fencing manuals.

Court Masters

[Masters recognized by a noble and attached to their court.]

Guild Masters

[Masters tested and certified by a fencing guild.]

School Masters

[Masters who operated their own fencing academies.]

Other Masters

[Any master who is identified as such in primary source literature.]

Masters Index

14th Century Masters

Article	Language
Pseudo-Hans Döbringer	Early New High German
Fiore de'i Liberi	Middle Italian Renaissance Latin
Abu-I-Hassan Ali ibn Abd-ar-Rahman al-Farazi al-Andalus	Arabic

15th Century Masters

Article	Language
Andreas	Early New High German
Andres Juden	Early New High German
H. Beringer	Renaissance Latin Early New High German
Peter von Danzig zum Ingolstadt	Early New High German
Pseudo-Peter von Danzig	Early New High German
Filippo Dardi	Italian
Duarte I de Portugal	Old Portuguese
Hans Döbringer	Early New High German
Ludwig VI von Eyb	Early New High German
Peter Falkner	Early New High German
Hans Folz	Early New High German
Pseudo-Ibn Akḥī Ḥizām	Arabic
Martin Huntsfeld	Early New High German
Paulus Kal	Early New High German
Johannes Lecküchner	Early New High German
Lew	Early New High German
Johannes Liechtenauer	Early New High German
Andre Lignitzer	Early New High German
Guido Antonio di Luca	Italian
Hans Medel	Early New High German
Pedro Monte	Spanish New Latin
Nicolaüs	Early New High German
Jobs von der Nyssen	Early New High German
Ott Jud	Early New High German
Hans Pegnitzer	Early New High German
Jaime Pons de Perpiñan	Catalan
Paride del Pozzo	Renaissance Latin Italian
Nicklass Preußen	Early New High German
Sigmund ain Ringeck	Early New High German
Hans Seydenfaden von Erfurt	Early New High German
Hans Stettner von Mörnsheim	Early New High German
Martin Syber	Early New High German
Hans Talhoffer	Early New High German
Pedro de la Torre	Spanish
Philippo di Vadi	Middle Italian Renaissance Latin
Hugo Wittenwiler	Early New High German

16th Century Masters

Article	Language
Giovanni Filoteo Achillini	Italian
Camillo Agrippa	Italian
Francesco di Sandro Altoni	Italian
Fabian von Auerswald	Early New High German
Luis Barbarán	Spanish
Girolamo Cavalcabo	Middle French Italian Early New High German
Hans Czynner	Early New High German
Giovanni dall'Agocchie	Italian
Alfonso Falloppia	Italian
Domingo Luis Godinho	Spanish
Giacomo di Grassi	English Italian
Heinrich von Gunterrodt	New Latin
Girolamo Lucino	Italian
Paulus Hector Mair	New Latin Early New High German
Antonio Manciolino	Italian
Achille Marozzo	Italian
Joachim Meyer	Early New High German
Marc'Antonio Pagano	Italian
Pablo de Paredes	Spanish
Andre Paurenfeyndt	Early New High German
Peloquin	Middle French
Balthasaro Cramonio Pomerano	Early New High German
Antonius Rast	Early New High German
Francisco Román	Spanish
Christoff Rösener	Early New High German
Henry de Sainct Didier	Middle French
Vincentio Saviolo	English
George Silver	English
Lienhart Sollinger	Early New High German
Mercurio Spezioli	Italian
Jerónimo Sánchez de Carranza	Spanish
Angelo Viggiani dal Montone	Italian
Jörg Wilhalm	Early New High German
Jobst von Württemberg	Early New High German

17th Century Masters

Article	Language
Torquato d'Alessandri	Italian
Francesco Fernando Alfieri	Italian
Pieter Bailly	Dutch
André des Bordes	Middle French
Johannes Georgius Bruchius	Dutch
Ridolfo Capo Ferro da Cagli	Italian
Terenziano Ceresa	Italian
Marco Docciolini	Italian
Salvator Fabris	Italian Early New High German French
Octavio Ferrara	Spanish
Nicoletto Giganti	Italian Early New High German French
Diogo Gomes de Figueyredo	Portuguese
Pedro de Heredia	Middle French
Sebastian Heußler	Early New High German
Michael Hundt	New Latin Early New High German
Joachim Köppe	Early New High German
Johann Daniel Lange	Early New High German
Jacopo Monesi	Italian
Luis Pacheco de Narvaez	Spanish
Camillo Palladini	Italian
Johann Georg Pascha	New High German
Nicolaes Petter	Dutch New High German French
Hans Wilhelm Schöffer von Dietz	Early New High German
Alessandro Senese	Italian
Jakob Sutor von Baden	Early New High German
Joseph Swetnam	English
Gérard Thibault d'Anvers	French
Theodori Verolini	New High German

18th Century Masters

Article	Language
Carlo Giuseppe Colombani	Italian
Johann Andreas Schmidt	Early New High German