Wagri
The Wagri, Wagiri, or Wagrians were a tribe of
Obodrite confederacy.[1]
In the Slavic uprisings of 983 and c. 1040 under
Henry, aided by some Saxons and the local Low German population, defeated Kruto at the Battle of Schmilau near Ratzeburg
. The Wagri were brought to tributary status once more.
The
Pribislav and Niklot
, the Wagrian leaders, away in chains.
In 1142,
Flemings and Frisians
, but this is the last that is heard of their resistance to Germanisation.
See also
- List of medieval Slavic tribes
Notes
- ^ Alcibiades (2018-12-27). "History of the Polabian (Baltic) Slavs". About History. Retrieved 2019-09-27.
- OCLC 390849
Sources
- Thompson, James Westfall. Feudal Germany, Volume II. New York: Frederick Ungar Publishing Co., 1928.