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Prior to his death in 1282, Vitslav II's younger brother, Jaromar III, often served as regent and co-prince. Vitslav III (1303–1325) and Sambor III. After Wizlaw II died during a visit to Norway in 1302, his sons, Vitslav III and Sambor III, became joint princes of Rügen. Sambor died, however, in 1304. At the instigation of his mother's ...
Jaromar II was an ardent supporter of the archbishops in the Danish domestic struggle between the Danish king and the archbishops Jakob Erlandsen of Lund and Peder Bang of Roskilde. In 1259 Peder Bang escaped from a Danish prison, into exile in Schaprode in Rügen. In April of the same year, Jaromar II and Peder Bang landed on the main Danish ...
Vitslav had two daughters, Euphemia and Agnes (wife of Albert II, Prince of Anhalt-Zerbst), and a son, Jaromar. But Jaromar died in May 1325, shortly before his father, and Vitslav faced the prospect of leaving no male heir. Rügen would have fallen to Vitslav's nephew, Wartislaw IV, but Wartislav died in 1326, causing the Rügen war of succession.
However, the accuracy of his idea can be assessed by re-referring to the text of the document from 1277. On 18 January 1277, near the bridge called Ziznow (in Galenbeck), Prince Vitslav II of Rügen declared that he had made a pact with his brothers-in-law, the Branden- burg Margraves, John II, Otto IV and Conrad.
Vitslav III (1265/8–1325), variously called Vislav, Vizlav, Wislaw, Wizlaw and Witslaw in English sources, was the last Slavic ruler of the Danish Principality of Rugia. He is often identified with the author of the Minnesinger Vitslav of the Jenaer Liederhandschrift. Rügen would have fallen to Vitslav's nephew, Wartislaw IV, but Wartislav died in 1326, causing the Rügen war of succession ...
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When Vitslav I Prince of Rügen was born in 1177, in Roskilde, Denmark, his father, Jaromar I Prince of Rügen, was 38 and his mother, Hildegard of Denmark, was 37. He had at least 5 sons and 1 daughter with Margareta Sverkersdotter.
