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Gottschalk, sometimes rendered as Godescalc (Latin: Godescalcus; died 7 June 1066), was a prince of the Obotrite confederacy from 1043 to 1066. He established a Polabian Slavic kingdom on the Elbe (in the area of present-day northeastern Germany ) in the mid-11th century.
Gottschalk: 1043 to 1066 Budivoj: 1066 and 1069 Kruto: 1066–1069 and 1069–1093 Henry: 1093–1127 Canute & Sviatopolk 1127–1128 Sviatopolk 1128–1129 Zwinike 1129–1129 Canute: 1129–1131 Great-great-great-great-grandson of Mstivoj Niklot: 1131–1160 Born around 1090. Also ruled the subdued Polabian Slav tribes of Kessinians and ...
Founder of the Nikloting family, he was a Prince of the Obotrites. Also ruled the subdued Polabian Slav tribes of Kessinians and Circipanians. Pribislaus I Henry: c.1130? First son of Niklot: August 1160 – 30 December 1178: Lordship of Mecklenburg: Vizlava of Pomerania c.1175 at least one child 30 December 1178 Lüneburg aged 47-48?
RulerRulerBornReign1090 ?1131 – August 1160c.1130? First son of NiklotAugust 1160 – 30 December 1178c.1130? Second son of NiklotAugust 1160 – June 1164c.1130? Third son of NiklotAugust 1160 – c.1175Lordship of Lolland (vassalage to ..."Saint Gottschalk was a prince of the Obotrite confederacy from 1043 to 1066. He established a Slavic kingdom on the Elbe (in the area of present-day northeastern Germany) in the mid-11th century. His object in life seems to have been to collect the scattered tribes of the Slavs into one kingdom, and to make that kingdom Christian.
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Obodrite, member of a people of the Polab group, the northwesternmost of the Slavs in medieval Europe. The Obodrites (sometimes called the Bodryci, from bodry, “brave”) inhabited the lowland country between the lower Elbe River and the Baltic Sea, the area north and northeast of Hamburg in what is.
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Apr 17, 2020 · An earlier Obotrite prince (sometimes called ‘king’), Gottschalk, whose German name means ‘servant of God’—he doesn’t seem to have a Slavic name—married a Danish princess, established a much larger and more autonomous principality—stretching into what is now Holstein, with a capital at Liubice, today’s Lübeck—and tried to ...
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Saint Gottschalk (or Godescalc) (Latin: Godescalcus) (died 7 June 1066) was a prince of the Obotrite confederacy from 1043 to 1066. He established a Slavic kingdom on the Elbe (in the area of present-day northeastern Germany) in the mid-11th century.
