Greetings, All!
Some of you may know about my research on Johane Suveno and Nicolai de Toblem of the diocese of Mexinensis. For a long time, I have been a champion of the view that Johane Suveno could well be Johannes Liechtenauer, and have argued Mexinensis is most likely Metz, and that Toblem is modern Tomblaine near Nancy.
However, I have recently found a period reference to Mexinensis, the only one I know of besides the reference to that name in Pisani-Dossi. Matt Easton will be gratified to hear that the Mexinensis in this source was referring to Messina, in Sicily. Moreover, there is a small town in northern Italy, up in the mountains, called Suveno.
The upshot of this is that there is a possibility that Fiore's master lineage may be purely Italian after all. Of course, this is far from conclusive, and the arguments for the connection to Swabia and Metz are pretty strong, given the identities of the Patriarchs of Aquileia at key points in time (ie, a former Bishop of Augsburg in Swabia, and a bastard son of Emperor Charles IV of Luxembourg, near Metz).
More on this as it develops...
Regards,