Swantopolk (around 1175)

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Swantopolk, from the family tree of the Griffins by Cornelius Krommeny, 1598.

Swantopolk was a Pomeranian nobleman from the line of the Ratiboriden , a branch line of the Greifenhaus ruling in Pomerania .

The only mention Swantopolks comes from a document from the year 1175, with the Pomeranian Duke Casimir I the Monastery Grobe gave a village and exchanged several villages to the monastery. There, at the end of the series of witnesses, “Szpenthepolc filius ducis Ratheberni” (Swantopolk's son of Duke Ratibor) is mentioned. With Ratibor is meant Duke Ratibor I († 1156).

According to the historian Johann Ludwig Quandt , Swinislawa, the wife of Duke Mestwin I of Pomerania, was a daughter of Swantopolk. He deduces this from the fact that three of their four sons have had names that also occur among the Ratiboriden. According to the historian Martin Wehrmann , however, this cannot be assumed, since these names were common at the time.

literature

  • Martin Wehrmann : Genealogy of the Pomeranian ducal house. Leon Sauniers Buchhandlung Verlag, Stettin 1937, p. 40.

Footnotes

  1. ^ Klaus Conrad (arrangement): Pommersches Urkundenbuch . Volume 1. 2nd edition (= publications of the Historical Commission for Pomerania. Series 2, Vol. 1). Böhlau Verlag, Cologne / Vienna 1970, No. 66.
  2. ↑ Johann Ludwig Quandt : East Pomerania, its princes, princely Landestheilungen and districts. Part 2. In: Baltic Studies . Volume 16. 1857, p. 64.
personal data
SURNAME Swantopolk
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Pomeranian nobleman, son of Duke Ratibor I.
DATE OF BIRTH 12th Century
DATE OF DEATH 12th century or 13th century