Ratislaus von Rügen

Ratislaus von Rügen or Ratze (* before 1105; † 1141 ) was the prince of the West Slavic Ranen and was also referred to as the King of Rügen . He is also called Radislaus , Ratibor or Regbus by chroniclers . He is the progenitor of the Rügischen Princely House , which in its ruling main line in 1325 with Wizlaw III. went out.

Life

There is no direct documentary evidence about him. He was the son of a Wartislaw. Ratislaus fought unhappily against the Obotrite prince Heinrich .

The term king should be viewed with caution, old chroniclers such as Saxo etc. often used these titles, but they contradict historical reality. It is also questionable whether the statements of the chroniclers of the 18th century are correct; documentary evidence is often missing or contain inaccurate information. They often cited older sources and adopted their formulation.

family

The Abodrite prince Kruto (also: Crito), who in turn was the son of a Grin (also: Grimmus), was regarded as his grandfather . However, these attempts to connect the royal house with Kruto are now considered refuted.

The chroniclers also occasionally refer to Ratislaus as the prince of the Rugians , as it was assumed that the island of Rügen bears its name from this East Germanic tribe, which migrated to Italy during the migration and perished with the Ostrogoth Empire in 553, which is highly controversial today. There is certainly no tribal relationship between the West Slavic Rans and the East Germanic Rugians.

Ratislaus' wife is said to have been a sister of Prince Mitzlaw von Gützkow , who was converted to Christianity by Bishop Otto von Bamberg in 1128 .

His descendants were:

Tezlaw († 1170, other source † 1210), also known as Tetzlaw or Tetislaw , who was first called King from 1162 to 1170, later Prince of Rügen
(possibly) Stoislaw I. († after 1193, other source † 1207), also known as Stoislaw von Putbus , progenitor of von Putbus (died out 1854)
Jaromar I († 1218), Prince of Rügen from 1170

The descent of Stoislaws from Ratislaus is unclear. The Pomeranian chronicler Thomas Kantzow took this view because Stoislaw and his son Isaak are named in the founding document for the Bergen monastery on Rügen from 1193 alongside the sons of Jaromar I. A relationship can therefore be assumed, but it cannot be proven whether Stoislaw was actually a brother of the princes Tezlaw and Jaromar I or whether there was a more distant degree of relationship. The Vilmnitzer Church may be traced back to Stoislaw I. (see article Stoislaw I. ) , which was the burial place of the von Putbus family from 1351 onwards.

literature

Nicolaus von Klemptzen : Vom Pommer-Lande and its princes , 1771, including the lineage of the Rügen princes p. 52
Christian Friedrich Wutstrack : Description of Western and Eastern Pomerania , 1795, supplement 1, table of the princes of Rügen p. 6
The Thomas Kantzow Chronicle of Pomerania in High German dialect , ed. by Georg Gaebel. Niekammer, Stettin 1897, digitized version

Individual evidence

↑ Wilhelm Gottlieb Beyer: King Kruto and his sex: a historical investigation into the descent of the grand ducal-Meklenburg ducal house . In: Yearbooks of the Association for Mecklenburg History and Archeology , Volume 13 (1848), pp. 3–55, especially p. 49.
↑ Helge bei der Wieden : The Beginnings of the House of Mecklenburg - Desire and Reality. In: Yearbook for the history of Central and Eastern Germany . Vol. 53, 2007, pp. 1-20, here p. 8 .; Wolfgang H. Fritze: Problems of the abodritic tribal and imperial constitution and its development from a tribal state to a ruling state. In: Herbert Ludat (ed.): Settlement and constitution of the Slavs between the Elbe, Saale and Oder. W. Schmitz, Gießen 1960, pp. 141–219, here p. 168 note 4.
↑ Heinrich Beck u. a. (Ed.): Reallexikon der Germanischen Altertumskunde . Volume 25. de Gruyter, Berlin 2003, ISBN 3-11-017733-1 , p. 419.
^ Theodor Pyl: Jaromar I. and Tezlaw . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 13, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1881, pp. 722-724.
^ Thomas Kantzow : Pomerania. Or Ursprung, the antiquity and history of the peoples and lands of Pomerania, Cassuben, Wenden, Stettin, Rhügen. In fourteen books, ed. by Johann Gottfried Ludwig Kosegarten . 1. Volume, Mauritius, Greifswald 1816–1817, p. 132. (online at: books.google.de )
^ Ingrid Schmidt: The dynasty of the Rügen princes. Hinstorff, Rostock 2009, ISBN 978-3-356-01335-1 , pp. 97-98.

personal data
SURNAME	Ratislaus von Rügen
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Ratislaw; Rat
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	King of Rügen , Prince of the Ranen
DATE OF BIRTH	before 1105
DATE OF DEATH	1141

[1] Wilhelm Gottlieb Beyer: King Kruto and his sex: a historical investigation into the descent of the grand ducal-Meklenburg ducal house . In: Yearbooks of the Association for Mecklenburg History and Archeology , Volume 13 (1848), pp. 3–55, especially p. 49.

[2] Helge bei der Wieden : The Beginnings of the House of Mecklenburg - Desire and Reality. In: Yearbook for the history of Central and Eastern Germany . Vol. 53, 2007, pp. 1-20, here p. 8 .; Wolfgang H. Fritze: Problems of the abodritic tribal and imperial constitution and its development from a tribal state to a ruling state. In: Herbert Ludat (ed.): Settlement and constitution of the Slavs between the Elbe, Saale and Oder. W. Schmitz, Gießen 1960, pp. 141–219, here p. 168 note 4.

[3] Heinrich Beck u. a. (Ed.): Reallexikon der Germanischen Altertumskunde . Volume 25. de Gruyter, Berlin 2003, ISBN 3-11-017733-1 , p. 419.

[4] Theodor Pyl: Jaromar I. and Tezlaw . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 13, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1881, pp. 722-724.

[5] Thomas Kantzow : Pomerania. Or Ursprung, the antiquity and history of the peoples and lands of Pomerania, Cassuben, Wenden, Stettin, Rhügen. In fourteen books, ed. by Johann Gottfried Ludwig Kosegarten . 1. Volume, Mauritius, Greifswald 1816–1817, p. 132. (online at: books.google.de )

[6] Ingrid Schmidt: The dynasty of the Rügen princes. Hinstorff, Rostock 2009, ISBN 978-3-356-01335-1 , pp. 97-98.