Jerónimo de Carranza (? - 1600) is a Spanish, creative soldier of a style of Escrime based on concepts esoteric.

Biography

It was born with Seville in a noble family originating in Montaña (the Asturies). It is hidalgo in posesión there propriedad . According to the genealogist Florez de Ocariz, he is the son of Pedro Carranza, majordomo of king Philippe  I, and the brother of the famous archbishop of Tolède, Dominican Bartolomé de Carranza.

Its studies lead it to the university of Osuña or it passes its license of right. It integrates then the military order “Santiago of Espada”. We know moreover that Jerónimo de Carranza is with the service of the Duke of Medina Sidonia with which it takes part in the repression of a rebellion in Algarve in the Années 1580. It is then Comendador (Commander) of the military Order in the town of San Lúcar de Barrameda.

It is in 1582 that it publishes its work on its method of fencing Philosophia of mow armed . Its system based on the theory of the magic circle , is marked by the thought of Raymond Lulle and Giordano Bruno. It can be regarded as a form of natural magic with the use of the weapons.

In 1589, Carranza is named governor of the Honduras. The system of fencing of Carranza will be began again by its disciple Pacheco de Narváez and imported in France by Thibaut of Antwerp. The French fencing will be subject to the influence of Carranza by preserving the concept of Tacto (tact), which will become a French specificity under the name of feeling of iron .