King of the Slavs

King of the Slavs (Template:Langx) 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 Samo's Empire and the "Slavs" (623–658); in the Frankish Annals
• Drogoviz, ruler of the Veleti (789); in Annales Mettenses priores in Template:Circa 805
• Trpimir I, ruler of Duchy of Croatia (845–864); erroneously by Gottschalk in the 840s
• Svatopluk I of Moravia, ruler of Great Moravia (870–894); by Pope Stephen V in 885
• Michael, ruler of Zachlumia (913–926); erroneously in the Annales Barenses
• Mihailo Vojislavljević, ruler of Duklja (1050–1081); by Pope Gregory VII in 1077Template:Sfn
• Constantine Bodin (Bodin Vojislavljević), ruler of Duklja (1081–1101); by the chronicle of Orderic Vitalis, relating to events of 1096Template:Sfn
• Stefan Dragutin, ruler of Kingdom of Serbia (1276–1282) and Syrmia (Realm of Stefan Dragutin; 1282–1316); by Pope Nicholas IV in 1288

Non-Slavic

• Canute Lavard, Danish prince (1120–1131); by Abbott Wilhelm after 1129
• Canute VI, King of Denmark; by himself in 1185, after a conquest of Pomerania

See also

• King of the Wends

Sources

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