King of the Slavs ( la, rex Sclavorum, Sclavorum rex) 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.
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Samo, ruler of Slavs (623–658); in the
Frankish Annals
The ''Royal Frankish Annals'' (Latin: ''Annales regni Francorum''), also called the ''Annales Laurissenses maiores'' ('Greater Lorsch Annals'), are a series of annals composed in Latin in the Carolingian Francia, recording year-by-year the stat ...
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Drogoviz, ruler of the Veleti (789); in ''
Annales Mettenses priores'' in 805
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Trpimir I, ruler of Croatia (845–864); erroneously by
Gottschalk in the 840s
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Svatopluk I of Moravia
Svatopluk I or Svätopluk I, also known as Svatopluk the Great (Latin: ''Zuentepulc'', ''Zuentibald'', ''Sventopulch'', ''Zvataplug''; Old Church Slavic: Свѧтопълкъ and transliterated ''Svętopъłkъ''; Polish: ''Świętopełk''; Greek: ...
, ruler of Moravia (870–894); by
Pope Stephen V in 885
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Michael, ruler of Zahumlje (913–926); erroneously in the ''
Annales Barenses
The ''Annales Barenses'' is an anonymous set of annals written in the city of Bari in the late eleventh century. At the time of its composition, Bari was the chief city of the Byzantine Empire in southern Italy..
The ''Annales Barenses'' are clos ...
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Mihailo Vojislavljević, ruler of Duklja (1050–1081); by
Pope Gregory VII
Pope Gregory VII ( la, Gregorius VII; 1015 – 25 May 1085), born Hildebrand of Sovana ( it, Ildebrando di Soana), was head of the Catholic Church and ruler of the Papal States from 22 April 1073 to his death in 1085. He is venerated as a saint ...
in 1077
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Bodin Vojislavljević
Constantine Bodin (Bulgarian and sr, italic=no, Константин Бодин, ''Konstantin Bodin''; 1072–1101) was a medieval king and the ruler of Duklja, the most powerful Serbian principality of the time, from 1081 to 1101, succeed ...
, ruler of Duklja (1081–1101); by the chronicle of
Orderic Vitalis
Orderic Vitalis ( la, Ordericus Vitalis; 16 February 1075 – ) was an English chronicler and Benedictine monk who wrote one of the great contemporary chronicles of 11th- and 12th-century Normandy and Anglo-Norman England. Modern historia ...
, relating to events of 1096
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Stefan Dragutin, ruler of Serbia (1276–1282) and Syrmia (1282–1316); by
Pope Nicholas IV in 1288
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Canute Lavard, Danish prince (1120–1131); by Abbott Wilhelm after 1129
See also
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King of the Wends
References
Sources
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* {{Cite book, last=Jireček, first=Constantin, author-link=Konstantin Jireček, title=Geschichte der Serben, year=1911, volume=1, location=Gotha, publisher=Perthes, url=https://books.google.com/books?id=XoVOAQAAMAAJ
Slavic history
European kings