King of the Slavs
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King of the Slavs (Latin: rex Sclavorum, Sclavorum rex) was a title denoting some Slavic rulers, as well as Germanic rulers that conquered Slavs, in the Middle Ages in European sources, such as Papal correspondence.
Papal use is bolded.
- Samo, established a tribal polity of various Slavic tribes (623–658); according to the Chronicle of Fredegar and was called King of the Slavs according to later reworkings of this account
- Drogoviz, ruler of the Veleti (789); in Annales Mettenses priores in c. 805[1]
- Trpimir I, ruler of Duchy of Croatia (845–864); erroneously by Gottschalk in the 840s[2]
- Svatopluk I of Moravia, ruler of Great Moravia (870–894); by Pope Stephen V in 885[3]
- Michael, ruler of Zachlumia (913–926); erroneously in the Annales Barenses[4]
- Mihailo Vojislavljević, ruler of Duklja (1050–1081); by Pope Gregory VII in 1077[5]
- Constantine Bodin (Bodin Vojislavljević), ruler of Duklja (1081–1101); by the chronicle of Orderic Vitalis, relating to events of 1096[6]
- Canute Lavard, Danish prince (1120–1131); by Abbott Wilhelm after 1129[7]
- Canute VI, King of Denmark; by himself in 1185, after a conquest of Pomerania[8]
- Stefan Dragutin, ruler of Kingdom of Serbia (1276–1282) and Syrmia (Realm of Stefan Dragutin; 1282–1316); by Pope Nicholas IV in 1288[9]