Liechtenauer

Johannes Liechtenauer seems to have lived in Germany in the middle and perhaps latter part of the 14thC and wrote down verses in German relating to knightly combat. These verses became the basis for many subsequent German masters of arms in the Liechtenauer lineage, the earliest source we have being that attributed to Hanko Doebringer (c.1389). Later masters in this lineage who we have surviving treatises from include Ringeck, Von Danzig, Kal and Talhoffer. In some of these German sources there are elements which come from a different origin than Liechtenauer’s verses, such as the wrestling of Otto the Jew. At Boar’s Tooth Fight School we study all the Liechtenauer lineage to some degree, but with especial emphasis on the treatise of Sigmund Ringeck.

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