Abstract
The author deals with the concept of the perception of liberty at the beginning of the Czech state in the Czech medieval historiography. Especially in the Chronicle of the Czechs by Cosmas of Prague, freedom is defined by reference to the individual as the personal freedom of people, both in the political plane as the country's independence.
By Cosmas, the freedom plays a crucial role in the development of the state. In the oldest charters of the Czech rulers, freedom is seen as a privilege.
While by Cosmas freedom represented the highest value, for the later medieval writers of national history this issue was not up to date. A spokesman of the Czech nobility, so called Dalimil in the early 14th century, knew liberty only as a privilege.
Přibík Pulkava of Radenín who watched mainly interest of the ruler and the ruler's court, had no reason to consider the question of freedom of the state nor of the individual.