Trpimir I.

Trpimir I ( Latin Trepimirus ; †  864 ) was a Slavic Knes and ruled over the Duchy of Croatia , the so-called Dalmatian Croatia , from 845 until his death in 864 . He was the founder of the Trpimirović dynasty , which ruled with interruptions until 1091 in medieval Croatia .

Trpimir's Realm (yellow)

Life

In 845 he succeeded Prince Mislav . Although he recognized the formal sovereignty of the Franks , he used the ongoing Frankish- Byzantine conflict to largely withdraw his domain from the two great powers and to rule independently.

Donation from Trpimir I to the Archdiocese of Split (852)

He also cleverly used the constant attacks of the Arabs , who weakened Byzantium and Venice , to strengthen his influence. According to Gottschalk von Orbais De Trina deitate , Trpimir waged successful wars at sea and on land against both powers between 846 and 848. This famous theologian he granted the same period for asylum at his court in Klis , like that of the heresy had accused flee from the Frankish Empire. This act testifies to Trpimir's independence from the great powers of the time.

From 854 to 860 he resisted successfully the attacks of the Bulgarian Khan Boris I from.

His three sons Petar, Zdeslav and Muncimir were forced to exile to Constantinople by the usurper Domagoj , but after Domagoj's death Zdeslav was able to seize power for a short time (878-879) with the help of Byzantium, so that the Trpimirović dynasty until 1091 in Croatia ruled.

See also

• List of rulers of Croatia
• History of Croatia
• Order of Prince Trpimir with collar and star

literature

• Rudolf Horvat: Povijest Hrvatske I. (od najstarijeg doba do g. 1657.) . Zagreb 1924.
• Nada Klaić: Povijest Hrvata u ranom srednjem vijeku . Zagreb 1975.
• Ivan Mužić: Hrvatska povijest devetoga stoljeća . Povjesnice Hrvata 3rd Split 2007, ISBN 978-953-263-034-3 ( muzic-ivan.info [PDF]).

swell

• Trpimir I. In: Hrvatska enciklopedija. Leksikografski zavod Miroslav Krleža, accessed on January 1, 2020 (Croatian). 
• Ernest Bauer: Trpimir I. Trpimirović . In: Biographical Lexicon on the History of Southeast Europe . Volume 4. Munich 1981, p. 350
• Konstantin Porfirogenet, O upravljanju carstvom , prijevod i komentari Nikola pl. Tomašić (hrvatski), R. [Romilly] J. [James] H. [Heald] Jenkins (engleski), priređivač grčkog izvornika Gyula Moravcsik, Zagreb: Dom i svijet (Biblioteka Povjesnica), 2003. ISBN 953-6491-90- 7 .

predecessor	Office	successor
Mislav	Prince of Dalmatian Croatia 845–864	Domagoj