WHO IS THIS MAN?!
anyone involved with HEMA, and has read a lot of the German treatises on medieval fencing will know of the classical icon of High Master Johannes Liechtenauer from the Pseudo Danzig manual from 1452. The oldest reference to Liechtenauer's poem on the art of fencing dates to 1448 in one of Talhoffer's manuals.
However, in the third section of Codex Wallerstein, (which dates to the 1420s) there is an icon of a mystery man that looks eerily similar to the venerable Grand Master of the knightly art of fencing with the hat, robe, and seated posture. If this is true, then the actual time of Liechtenauer's career might be further recovered.
Any history anons willing to help me dig?