King of the Slavs
King of the Slavs (Template:Lang-la) was a title denoting some Slavic rulers, as well as Germanic rulers that conquered Slavs, in the Middle Ages in European sources, such as Papal correspondence.
Papal use is bolded.
- Slavic
- Samo, ruler of Slavs (623–658); in the Frankish Annals
- Drogoviz, ruler of the Veleti (789); in Annales Mettenses priores in c. 805[1]
- Trpimir I, ruler of Croatia (845–864); erroneously by Gottschalk in the 840s[2]
- Svatopluk I of Moravia, ruler of Moravia (870–894); by Pope Stephen V in 885[3]
- Michael, ruler of Zahumlje (913–926); erroneously in the Annales Barenses[4]
- Mihailo Vojislavljević, ruler of Duklja/Montenegro (1050–1081); by Pope Gregory VII in 1077[5]
- Vukan, ruler of Rascia/Serbia (1089–1105); by William of Tyre[6][7] between 1170 and 1184
- Stefan Dragutin, ruler of Serbia (1276–1282) and Syrmia (1282–1316); by Pope Nicholas IV in 1288[8]
- Non-Slavic
- Canute Lavard, Danish prince (1120–1131); by Abbott Wilhelm after 1129[9]
See also
References
- ^ Adalbert-Stifter-Verein (Munich, Germany) (1961). Veröffentlichungen der Wissenschaftlichen Abteilung. Edmund Gans Verlag. p. 26.
- ^ John V. A. Fine (5 February 2010). When Ethnicity Did Not Matter in the Balkans: A Study of Identity in Pre-Nationalist Croatia, Dalmatia, and Slavonia in the Medieval and Early-Modern Periods. University of Michigan Press. pp. 36–. ISBN 0-472-02560-0.
- ^ Maddalena Betti (24 October 2013). The Making of Christian Moravia (858-882): Papal Power and Political Reality. BRILL. pp. 189–. ISBN 978-90-04-26008-5.
- ^ Armin Pavić (1906). Postanje Gundulićeva Osmana i glávâ 29-36 u Porfirogenitovoj De adm. imp. Tisak Kr. zemaljske tiskare. p. 62.
- ^ Woislav M. Petrovitch (1920). Hero Tales and Legends of the Serbians. Library of Alexandria. pp. 23–. ISBN 978-1-4655-1932-0.
- ^ Francis W. Carter (1972). Dubrovnik (Ragusa): A Classic City-state. Seminar Press. p. 131. ISBN 978-0-12-812950-0.
- ^ Pavel Josef Šafařík (1863). Sebrané spisy: Slovanské starožitnosti. Tempský. pp. 270–.
- ^ Concise Dictionary of Proper Names and Notable Matters in the Works of Dante. Ardent Media. pp. 566–. GGKEY:P53U8KC8WZR.
Addressed (in 1288) by Pope Nicholas IV as 'Rex Sclavorum'; he signed himself (in 1305 or 1307) in a document still extant in the Venetian archives as ' Stephanus Urosch Rex Serbicarum terrarum et maritimarum '. a [Stefano Urosio.] ...
- ^ Christian Raffensperger (12 March 2012). Reimagining Europe: Kievan Rus’ in the Medieval World. Harvard University Press. pp. 103–. ISBN 978-0-674-06546-8.