The Freifechter or Federfechter (Freifechter von der Feder zum Greifenfels) were a fencing guild founded around 1570 in Prague. They were known, from early...
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single-edged swords like the langes Messer. A second fencing brotherhood, the Federfechter, was founded in Prague in 1570, and recognized by the city of Frankfurt...
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The term Fechtfeder itself seems to be connected to the name of the Federfechter, i.e. "feather fencers", a guild or brotherhood of fencers formed in...
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gave special privileges to both the Marksbrüder and much later to the Federfechter, and propagated the fencing style of Liechtenauer in the entire Holy...
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(Fechtbruderschaften), most notably the Brotherhood of St. Mark (attested 1474) and the Federfechter. An early Burgundian French treatise is Le jeu de la hache (The Play...
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Marxbrüder. Other guilds included the Company of St Luke (Luxbrueder) and the Federfechter. Prior to the year 1540, Henry VIII of England, established the Corporation...
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