He had ample opportunity to interact with both, traveling widely in the Italian states that formed the border of the Holy Roman Empire. įiore wrote that he had a natural inclination to the martial arts and began training at a young age, ultimately studying with “countless” masters from both Italic and Germanic lands. It has been suggested by various historians that Fiore and Benedetto were descended from Cristallo dei Liberi of Premariacco, who was granted immediacy in 1110 by Holy Roman Emperor Heinrich V, but this has yet to be proven. The term Liberi, while potentially merely a surname, more probably indicates that his family had Imperial immediacy ( Reichsunmittelbarkeit), either as part of the nobili liberi ( Edelfrei, 'free nobles'), the Germanic unindentured knightly class which formed the lower tier of nobility in the Middle Ages, or possibly of the rising class of Imperial Free Knights. He was born in Cividale del Friuli, a town in the Patriarchal State of Aquileia (in the Friuli region of modern-day Italy), the son of Benedetto and scion of a Liberi house of Premariacco. 1381 - 1409) was a late 14th century knight, diplomat, and fencing master.

Fiore Furlano de’i Liberi de Cividale d’Austria (Fiore delli Liberi, Fiore Furlano, Fiore de Cividale d’Austria fl.

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