# Jacob Sutor

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'''Jacob Sutor''' (also spelled "Jakob Sutor") was a German [fencing](/source/fencing) master who published a fighting manual in 1612, called the ''Neues Künstliches Fechtbuch''.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Thomas |first=Michael G. |url=https://www.google.com/books/edition/The_Fighting_Man_s_Guide_to_German_Longs/SSeAW0SWbq8C?hl=en&gbpv=0 |title=The Fighting Man's Guide to German Longsword Combat |date=2008 |publisher=SwordWorks |isbn=978-1-906512-00-2 |pages=19 |language=en}}</ref> The book was mostly an updated version (or outright plagiarism) of [Joachim Meyer](/source/Joachim_Meyer)'s 1570 work, ''[Gründtliche Beschreibung der Kunst des Fechtens](/source/Gr%C3%BCndtliche_Beschreibung_der_Kunst_des_Fechtens)''.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Meyer |first=Joachim |url=https://www.google.com/books/edition/The_Art_of_Sword_Combat/RdtgDwAAQBAJ?hl=en&gbpv=0 |title=The Art of Sword Combat: A 1568 German Treatise on Swordmanship |date=2016-08-31 |publisher=Casemate Publishers |isbn=978-1-4738-7677-4 |pages=1571 |language=en}}</ref>

Sutor's [Fechtbuch](/source/Fechtbuch) includes techniques for the [long sword](/source/long_sword), [dussack](/source/dussack), [rapier](/source/rapier) (which appears to be an early form of the weapon more similar to a [cut and thrust sword](/source/cut_and_thrust_sword)), rapier and [main gauche](/source/main_gauche), rapier and [cloak](/source/cloak), case of rapiers, [staff](/source/Quarterstaff), [poleaxe](/source/poleaxe), and the [flail](/source/Flail_(weapon)).

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