Jacob Sutor

{{Short description|German fencer}}Jacob Sutor (also spelled "Jakob Sutor") was a German fencing master who published a fighting manual in 1612, called the Neues Künstliches Fechtbuch.{{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}} The book was mostly an updated version (or outright plagiarism) of Joachim Meyer's work.{{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}}

Sutor's Fechtbuch includes techniques for the long sword, dussack, rapier (which appears to be an early form of the weapon more similar to a cut and thrust sword), rapier and main gauche, rapier and cloak, case of rapiers, staff, pole axe, and the flail.