- The
Freifechter or
Federfechter (Freifechter von der
Feder zum Greifenfels) were a
fencing guild founded around 1570 in Prague. They were known, from early...
- 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...
- gave
special privileges to both the Marksbrüder and much
later to the
Federfechter, and
propagated the
fencing style of
Liechtenauer in the
entire Holy...
- 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...
- (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...
- 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...
