Keywords: Jerónimo Sánchez de Carranza.jpg Don Jerónimo Sánchez de Carranza; commonly called the Father of Spanish Fencing and he wrote his text Of the Philosophy of the arms of its art and the Christian offense and defense in 1582 under the sponsorship of Don Alonso de Guzmán El Bueno 7th Duke of Medina Sidonia His work on Destreza the Spanish school of swordplay was the foundation of a fighting system that lasted almost 300 years Destreza Research and Translation Project DTRP Transferred from http //en wikipedia org en wikipedia 2005-11-17 Original uploader was Fencer B at http //en wikipedia org en wikipedia This image is used with the permission of the Destreza Research and Translation Project DTRP PD-old original upload log page en wikipedia Carranza JPG 2005-11-17 18 47 Fencer B 156×205×8 11514 bytes <nowiki>This image is used with the permission of the Destreza Research and Translation Project DTRP </nowiki> Military people of Spain Fencers from Spain |