Wartislaw I, Duke of Pomerania

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Stolpe
.
Ratibor, Wartislaw's brother, founded Stolpe Abbey, Pomerania
's oldest monastery, in Wartislaw's memory.

Wartislaw I (Warcisław I) (c. 1092 – August 9, 1135) was the first historical ruler of the Duchy of Pomerania and the founder of the Griffin Dynasty.

Most of the information about him comes from the writings on the life of

Conversion of Pomerania. By 1124 his residence was in (Kammin) Kamień Pomorski.[2]

The last time he is mentioned explicitly in chronicles is by

Niels is supposed to have taken him prisoner but released later after the intervention of "King of the Obotrites" Canute Lavard.[2]

The author of the chronicles of Otto does not give the name of Wartislaw's wife, only that she was a Christian. Otto also forced Wartislaw to send home his previous 24 wives and concubines before he could marry her. The Pomeranian chronicler

Rurik dynasty.[3]

He had two sons and a daughter: Bogusław I, Duke of Pomerania, Casimir I, Duke of Pomerania, and Woizlava, who married Pribislav of Mecklenburg.

Wartislaw was murdered sometime between 1134 and 1148, and was succeeded by his brother

Stolpe in the modern district of Vorpommern-Greifswald
, where he is said to be slain by pagans, is marked by a rock called Wartislawstein with an engraved Christian cross in remembrance of his missionary efforts.

See also

References

  1. ^ Rymar, pg. 97
  2. ^ a b Rymar, pg. 98
  3. ^ Rymar, pgs. 104-105

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House of Pomerania
Born: ~ 1091 Died: 1135
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 Duke of Pomerania
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