Basqlābiǧ

Basqlābiǧ (Slavic possibly Vaclavić ; around 929) was the first known prince of the Slavic tribe of the Hevellers . He was mentioned by the Arab scholar al-Masʿūdī .

Surname

The name is only passed down in the Arabic spelling. An original Slavic form Vaclavić or similar would be possible . Other transcriptions of the Arabic spelling are Basqlabić or Baçlabić .

Historical context

Al Masʿūdī mentioned Basqlābiǧ as prince of the Stodoranen ( Uṣṭutrāna ) next to Vaničslaf ( Wenzel of Böhmen ) and Girana of Namdschin ( Heinrich I of the Germans ?), So for the time between 921 and 929. He could thus during the German conquest of Brandenburg in Winter 928/29 have been prince there. Other contemporary authors such as Widukind von Corvey do not mention his name. His further fate is unclear.

family

Basqlābiǧ could have been the brother (or father?) Of Drahomira , the Stodoran princess daughter who married the Bohemian Duke Vratislav I and was the mother of King Wenceslaus. Tugumir was possibly a son of his, he was called the son of the Heveller prince.

literature

• Herbert Ludat : On the Elbe and the Oder around the year 1000. Sketches on the politics of the Ottonian Empire and the Slavic powers in Central Europe. Cologne 1971, ISBN 3-412-07271-0 , p. 13.
• PB Golden, u. a .: al-Sakaliba ( Memento of August 17, 2005 in the Internet Archive ) . In: Encyclopaedia of Islam . New Edition, Vol. 8, Leiden 1995, pp. 872-881, here p. 878.
• Josef Marquart: East European and East Asian forays: ethnological and historical-topographical studies on the history of the 9th and 10th centuries (approx. 840–940) . Dieterich'sche Verlagsbuchhandlung, T. Weicher, Leipzig 1903. pp. 103-105.

Remarks

1. ↑ Book of Gold Meadows and Gem Mines , Chapter 34: “This people are followed by the Stodorans among the Slavs and their king at this time is called Basq.lābiǧ”, quoted in cit. according to Ludat, p. 13