A knight from Heinrich von dem Türlin’s Diu Crône who bore a griffin’s claw as his symbol. He was engaged to lady Flursensephin of Sorgarda Castle, where Fiers was expected to win a tournament. When Flursensephin quarreled with her little sister Quebeleplus, however, the latter asked Gawain to defeat Fiers. Gawain did so, and compelled Fiers to surrender to the little girl. Essentially the same character appears as Meliant of Lis in Wolfram von Eschenbach’s Parzival. In French, the knight’s first name means “proud.”