Johannes Liechtenauer was a 13th or 14th century German

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 fencing

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 master. He was likely born in the early to mid 1300s, possibly in Lichtenau

Lichtenau, Bavaria

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, Mittelfranken (Franconia

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). Unfortunately, no direct record of his life or teachings currently exists, and all that we know of both comes from the writings of other masters and scholars. The only account of his life was written by the anonymous author of Döbringer Hausbuch, the oldest text in the tradition, who stated that "Master Liechtenauer learnt and mastered [the] Art in a thorough and rightful way, but he did not invent and put together this Art, as it is stated before.