Zdeslav

Zdeslav ( Sedesclaus , Latin Sedesclavus ; †  879 ) was a South Slavic Knes and ruled over the Duchy of Croatia , the so-called Dalmatian Croatia , in 864 and from 878 until his death in 879 .

Life

Zdeslav was the son and successor of Trpimir I , the founder of the Trpimirović dynasty . After the death of his father in 864, Zdeslav was overthrown by the usurper Domagoj and, together with his brothers Petar and Muncimir, forced into exile in Constantinople .

After Domagoj's death, he returned to Croatia in 878 with the help of the Byzantine Empire and overthrew Domagoj's successor (probably Ilyko ). In return, he accepted Emperor Basil I's supremacy over Croatia.

In 879 he was overthrown and killed by Branimir , a relative (probably son) of Domagojs, and supported by John VIII .

See also

• Croatia in the Middle Ages
• History of Croatia

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 3), Split 2007, ISBN 978-953-263-034-3 ( PDF )

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• Zdeslav. In: Hrvatska enciklopedija. Leksikografski zavod Miroslav Krleža, accessed December 30, 2019 (Croatian). 
• 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
Son of Domagoj (Ilko / Iljko?)	Prince of Dalmatian Croatia 878–879	Branimir