Thurnierbuch

The Thurnierbuch ("tournament book"), published in 1530, is an important work on

the tradition of medieval tournaments in the Holy Roman Empire.

The full title of the book was ThurnierBuch. Von Anfang, Vrsachen, vrsprung, vnd
herkommen der Thurnier im heyligen Römischen Reich Teutscher Nation
"Tournament Book: about the beginning, cause, source and origin of the tournament
in the Holy Roman Empire of the German Nation.

It was written by Georg Rüxner (also Rixner; Georg Rixner, genendt Hierosalem
Eraldo und Konig der Wappen). Next to nothing is known about Rüxner's biography.
He was presumably a Bavarian herold, possibly identical with the imperial herold of illustration from Codex Rossianus
Maximilian I depicted byHans Burgkmair in two woodcuts dated 1504 and 1507. In 711, a 1615 manuscript copy of the
Thurnierbuch.
1519, Rüxner was present at the election of Charles V
. In Nuremberg city records, he
is mentioned as royal herold in 1525/6.

He is also the author of a number of genealogical works, including on the dukes of

Mecklenburg Rüxner's tournament book of 1530was highly successful, but its partly
unfounded claims were criticized even by contemporaries; Froben Christoph von
Zimmern relied heavily on Rüxner's book for theZimmern Chronicle.

The Thurnierbuch contains detailed descriptions of 36 tournaments supposedly held

between 938 and 1487, including full lists of participants. Rüxner is the origin of the
tradition that the imperial tournaments in Germany were established by Henry the
Fowler but it is now widely accepted that the first 14 tournaments in his list are
unhistorical invention. His account of imperial tournaments during the 15th century, Page from a mid-17th-century
manuscript copy based on the
however, may be treated as mostly historical, and Rüxner is thus an important source
1578/9 Frankfurt edition
on the details of tournament rules and practices in Germany during the late medieval
period.

The Thurnierbuch was reprinted in Frankfurt by Sigmund Feyerabend in 1578 or 1579. This Frankfurt edition was in turn the source
for a number of manuscript copies made in the early 17th century
.

Rüxner's floruit spans the first three decades of the 16th century, and it is possible that he published early versions of his work prior
to the surviving 1530 edition. Works that may reflect such earlier works by Rüxner were published by Marx Würsung in 1518[1] and
by Ludwig von Eyb the Younger in c. 1525.[2]

References
1. Von wann vnd vmb welcher vrsachen willen das loblich ritterspil des turniers erdacht(https://de.wikisource.org/wiki/V
on_wann_vnd_vmb_welcher_vrsachen_willen_das_loblich_ritterspil_des_turniers_erdacht) , Augsburg (1518)
2. Turnierbuch, BSB Cgm 961

Franz Xaver von Wegele (1890), "Rüxner, Georg", Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie(ADB) (in German), 30, Leipzig:
Duncker & Humblot, p. 62.
W. Wagner (ed.), Georg Rixner: Turnierbuch, Reprint der Prachtausgabe Simmern 1530, Verlag E.& U. Brockhaus,
Solingen, 1997, ISBN 3-930132-08-7

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