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Duchy of Pomerania. The Duchy resulted from the partition of Świętobor, Duke of Pomerania, in which his son Wartislaw inherited the lands that would become in fact known as Pomerania . The Pomeranian Griffin.
Pomerania during the Early Middle Ages covers the History of Pomerania from the 7th to the 11th centuries. The southward movement of Germanic tribes during the migration period had left territory later called Pomerania largely depopulated by the 7th century. Between 650 and 850 AD, West Slavic tribes settled in Pomerania.
The Duchy of Eastern Pomerania, was a duchy centred on Pomerelia, with Gdańsk as its capital. The duchy was formed after gaining independence from the Kingdom of Poland in the 11th century, following the death of Bolesław I the Brave in 1025.
A Germanised duchy was established in Pomerania which gradually conquered the remaining native tribes, turning them into vassals and Christianising them. It was expanded into Circipania and Uckermark which lay to the south-west, and competed with the margraviate of Brandenburg for territory and formal overlordship of all of Pomerania.
By 1634, the German-speaking Duchy of Pomerania was still ruled by dukes with Polish names. How did this practice manage to remain? What language did the dukes speak? As I understand, by the 14th century the Ostsiedlung of Pomerania was mostly complete, and most of the Polabian Slavs had been assimilated or disappeared, mostly through the ...
Dukes of the Slavic Pomeranian tribes (All Pomerania) The lands of Pomerania were firstly ruled by local tribes, who settled in Pomerania around the 10th and 11th centuries. Non-dynastic
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The Duchy of Pomerania (German: Herzogtum Pommern; Polish: Księstwo pomorskie; Latin: Ducatus Pomeraniae) was a duchy in Pomerania on the southern coast of the Baltic Sea, ruled by dukes of the House of Pomerania (Griffins). The country had existed in the Middle Ages, in years 1121–1160, 1264–1295, 1478–1531 and 1625–1637.
