TATTERSHALL - Key Persons
Job Titles:
- ASSOCIATE
- INSTRUCTOR
- Teacher
Caleb Hallgren is a Tattershall teacher currently residing in greater Columbia, SC area.
He has been practicing historical swordsmanship since 2003 when he first purchased Guy Windsor's 'Swordsman's Companion' at his local Borders bookstore. He joined Tattershall in 2015 on the day he moved to Southern California and studied with Gary and Jeff until 2017 when a military assignment relocated him to Texas, and again to South Carolina in 2019.
Caleb is more widely known in the Society for Creative Anachronsim (SCA) as Don Julien de la Fontaine and is a member of the Order of the White Scarf with multiple baronial championships under his belt as well as Queen's Rapier Champion in the Outlands. He travels often to study, and besides pilgrimages back to Tattershall Long Beach, he has a close training relationship with Devon Boorman of Academie Duello in Vancouver, BC as well as Guy Windsor in Ipswich in the UK.
He primarily teaches Italian Rapier and Swetnam Rapier, but has a large HEMA library and has a layman's knowledge of most European swordsmanship manuals through the mid-1600's. He runs a travelling school for private instruction at SCA events in Atlantia and can be found at the local practices of the Canton of Cyddlan Downs at Irmo Community Park in Irmo, SC on Tuesday evenings from 6-8pm and at Owens Field Park in Columbia, SC on Thursday evenings from 6-8pm.
His SCA 'resume' can be found at http://caidwiki.org/index.php?title=Julien_de_la_Fontaine
Caleb has been practicing historical swordsmanship since 2003 when he first purchased Guy Windsor's ‘Swordsman's Companion' at his local Borders bookstore. He joined Tattershall in 2015 on the day he moved to Southern California and studied with Gary and Jeff until 2017 when a military assignment relocated him to Texas, and again to South Carolina in 2019.
Job Titles:
- LEAD INSTRUCTOR
- Rector / Instructor With the Tattershall School of Defense
David Biggs has been a Rector/Instructor with the Tattershall School of Defense since 2005. He began studying swordplay from the historical manuals sometime around 1996 (Saviolo and DiGrassi), and started digging into Ridolfo Capo Ferro in 2001 and Giovanni d'allAgocchie in 2003. While these remain his primary foci, he has also cracked open a few other manuals along the way.
David has been active in the Society for Creative Anachronism (SCA) and the Western Martial Arts (WMA) communities for more than 20 years. In the SCA, he is a member of the Order of the White Scarves of Ansteorra and the Order of the Laurel, both awarded for knowledge and successful application of historical combat. In 2019, David was inducted into the Order of Defense of Atlantia. He was the premier Society Deputy A&S Minister for Historical Combat Studies, and as such helped all kingdoms across the SCA develop rules that allowed for the study of historic combat techniques as an art - including grappling, spears, daggers, and pretty much any other documentable combat form.
He has taught classes to hundreds of students across the U.S. and Canada, including at several WMAW s and KWAR s. He has won scores of tournaments across HEMA, WMA, and the SCA, and continues to compete occasionally as a way to refine his knowledge and interpretation and put it to the test.
Job Titles:
- Member of the Organization Leadership Team
Job Titles:
- Member of the Organization Leadership Team
- President
- LEAD INSTRUCTOR
Job Titles:
- INSTRUCTOR
- Member of the Organization Leadership Team
- Vice President