Family:
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- Przybyslaw Birth: 1120
Death: 30 Dec 1178 in Luneburg
Bibliography
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Schwennicke, Detlev, ed., Europaische Stammtafeln: Stammtafeln zur Geschichte der europaischen Staaten, New Series. I: Die Stammesherzoge, Die Weltlichenkurforsten, Die Kaiserlichen, Koniglichen und Grossherzoglichen Familien. Marburg: Verlag von J. A. Stargardt, 1980. Information from this source tagged as [Ref: ES I #[0-9]*].
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van de Pas, Leo, Nikolot of Obotrites and Princes of Mecklenburg. Posting to soc.genealogy.medieval (email list GEN-MEDIEVAL) on 9/17/1998. Subject: A heathen in your tree? Niklot of the Obotrites.. Available at https://groups.google.com/g/soc.genealogy.medieval/c/JqfcjYrDlhQ/m/_vaj0e3xwSkJ. Author address: leovdpas at iinet dot net dot au. Information from this source tagged as [Ref: Leo van de Pas SGM 9/17/1998-A].
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- [Ref: Leo van de Pas SGM 9/17/1998-A]
- 1160 [Ref: ES I #137]
Sources with Information about marriage to unknown
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- [Ref: ES I #137, Leo van de Pas SGM 9/17/1998-A]
Research Notes:
Furst der Obotriten [Ref: ES I #137]
Of the royal houses in the Germanic lands most, with the exception of the
House of Mecklenburg, were of Germanic origins.
Niklot, Lord of the Obotrites, was killed in battle in August 1160.
Surrounded by Christians, Niklot and his tribe, the Wenden, had
remained faithful to the old religion. In 1147, before Emperor Konrad II,
Bernard of Clairaux wanted to prepare the Empire for a crusade to the Middle
East. Howeer, the German princes were not prepared to go while there were
still infidels living within Germany. Bernard of Clairvaux decided the
Southern German princes should go on the crusade while the northern German
princes would attack the Wenden.
Heinrich the Lion of Saxony and Albrecht of Brandenburg set out with their
armies toward the Wenden. However, there were forewarned; so secretly they
prepared a fleet and, on 26 June 1147, conquered and plundered the city of
Lubeck, killing more than 3,000 people. Rich with their booty, they returned
home to await their attackers.
The 'crusaders' approached by land under the Duke of Saxony with a fleet of
Danish ships giving them support as well as hoping to prevent the Wenden from
escaping by sea. Niklot asked the citizens of the city of Rugen for support
and, when they attacked, the Danish fleet was almost entirely lost while the
remainder hurried home. The Saxons besieged the castle Dobin which, being
built in a marsh, was almost unassailable.
After Niklot promised to free the captured Danes and allow Christian
missionaries into Mecklenburg, Heinrich the Lion was only too happy to
retreat. Albrecht of Brandenburg together with his 60,000 crusaders destroyed
the castle Malchow with its heathen temple and besieged the city of Demmin;
but aafter three months he had to retreat and return to Brandenburg.
In 1159 Niklot promised Heinrich the Lion to keep the peace with the Danes
and Saxons while Heinrich went to Italy to be with the Emperor Friedrich
Barbarossa. However, small bands intruded into Denmark after which the Danish
king Waldemar, together with Heinrich the Lion, attacked the Wendon and
Waldemar captured the castle of Rostock.
Niklot, concentrating on the defence, sacrificed the castles of Schwerin,
Dobin, Mecklenburg and Ilow by putting them to fire and retreatng to Werle.
Niklot was killed in a small skirmish and his death meant the end of the
independence of the Wenden. [Ref: Leo van de Pas SGM 9/17/1998-A]
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