Elizabethan Sports - Elizabethan Fencing
Skill in Fencing during the Elizabethan era was a requirement of all Upper class Nobility. The different types of swords ranged from the smallest Broadsword measuring from 30 inches to the Great swords which measured up to 72 inches. The weight of swords used during this era are usually presumed to be a lot heavier than they actually were! (Alchin, L.K. Elizabethan Era, Retrieved May 2 2015 from www.elizabethan-era.org.uk)