Ratimir of Pannonian Croatia

Ratimir / Radoslav
Duke of Pannonian Croatia
Reign	ca. 829 – 838
Predecessor	Ljudevit Posavski

Ratimir (or Radoslav) (Latin: Ratimirus) was a Croatian duke or prince (knez), Bulgarian-imposed Duke of Pannonian Croatia from ca. 829 to 838.^[1] His name contents the word "rat", meaning "war", and "mir", meaning "peace". It is believed that Ratimir descends from a royal dynasty that provided rulers for Moravia and Croatia.

In 827, the Bulgars under Great Khan Omurtag invaded and conquered the Croatian Principality of Southern Pannonia (Savia) and parts of territories to the north of Savia, that were a part of Frankish kingdom. In 829 they imposed a local Prince Ratimir as the new ruler of Pannonia in their name. Nine years later (838) after the Bulgarian conquest of Macedonia, the Danubian Count Ratbod, Head of the East March, deposed Prince Ratimir and restored Frankish rule in Pannonia.

After the attack of Ratbod, Ratimir fled, and in Pannonian Croatia, in the name of the Franks, ruled Slav dukes Pribina and Kocelj from today's western Hungary Blatnograd/Zalavar or Keszthely.

Unlike his predecessors, Ratimir experienced a rift in relations with the Christian Byzantine Empire.^[2]

Sources

Annales regni Francorum inde ab a. 741 usque ad a. 829, qui dicuntur Annales Laurissenses maiores et Einhardi. Herausgegeben von Friedrich Kurze. XX und 204 S. 8°. 1895. Printed in 1950.
Rudolf Horvat, History of Croatia I. (from ancient times to year 1657), Zagreb, 1924. (hr.)
Nada Klaić, History of Croats in Early Middle Ages, Zagreb, 1975. (hr.)

References

^ "Slavonia - Princes in Slavonia". http://sitemaker.umich.edu/mladjov/files/croatian_rulers.pdf.
^ Živković, Tibor. "The Strategos Paul and the Archontes of the Westerners". p. 172. http://www.byzsym.org/index.php/bz/article/viewFile/894/790.

External links

Annales regni francorum - original text in latin

Preceded by Vladin	Duke of Pannonia ca. 829–838	Succeeded by Svetimir

Dukes of Croatia (dux Croatorum, hrvatski knez)

dukes of Pannonian Croatia	Vojnomir (c. 790 - c. 800–791 - c. 810) • Ljudevit Posavski (810–823) • Ratimir (829–838) • Braslav (880–c. 887)

dukes of Littoral Croatia	Radoslav (...–...) • Kuber (...–...) • Porga (c. 640–c. 680) • Budimir (740–785) • Višeslav (785–802) • Borna (810–821) • Vladislav (821–835) • Mislav (835–845) • Trpimir I (845–864) • Zdeslav (864,878–879) • Domagoj (864–876) • Iljko (876–878) • Branimir (879–892) • Muncimir (892–900) • Tomislav I (910–928)

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