Narentine rulers
"Drosaico" redirects here. For the Obotrite prince, see Thrasco (Obotrite prince).
Pagania (the Narentines), 9th century
The South Slavic realm of the Narentines,[1] a fierce tribe living off piracy,[1] had several recorded rulers in the 9th century:
- Drosaico[A] was a župan[2] (duke) of the Narentines or Marians (chief, lord, count, duke)[B] in ca. 836[3] to after 839.[4] The Narentines were at the time (823) subordinate to the Serbian Principality.[2] In ca 839 Doge of Venice Pietro Tradonico signed peace with Mislav of Croatia,[5] he then headed with a large fleet towards the Narentines.
- Ljudislav (Liuditus sclavus or Liudisclav), possibly a co-ruler, successor, or the same person as Drosaico,[6] had the title of Narentanorum princeps.[7] He allegedly waged a successful naval battle against the Doge Pietro Tradonico, who lost some hundred people, in ca. 840.[6] The Narentines and Venetians subsequently made peace, and Drosaico signed a treaty at the islands, that would stop the piracy against the Republic of Venice.[1]
- Under the leadership of Uneslaf and Diodur (Uneslav and Diodor), Narentines plundered the Venetian borders shortly thereafter.[8]
See also
Contemporary South Slavic royalty and nobility:
- Ratimir (ca. 829–838), dux of Pannonia
- Beloje (fl. 839–842), župan of Travunia
- Krajina Belojević (fl. 847), župan or knez of Travunia
References
- ^ Name: In Latin, he is sourced as Drosaico, In Slavic, his name has been rendered as Draško,[9] Dražko,[3] Držit[3] (Drzit[4]) other spellings are Drosaik.[4][8][10]
- ^ Marians: He is mentioned as "ad Narentas insulas, cum Drosaico marianorum iudice"[4][10][11] His title has been rendered as Duke of the Narentines or Marians. Marians possibly derives from "of Morava".[4]
- 1 2 3 MacFarlane, p. 81
- 1 2 Prospetto cronologico della storia della Dalmazia: con riguardo alle provincie slave contermini, p. 86
- 1 2 3 Pavel Jozef Šafárik, Slowanské starožitnosti: Oddjl děgepisný. Pomocj Českého Museum, Vol 1, p. 657
- 1 2 3 4 5 Francis Cotterell Hodgson, The early history of Venice, p. 91
- ↑ Norwich, John Julius. A History of Venice. Alfred A. Knopf: New York, 1982.
- 1 2 Ferdo Šišić, Povijest hrvata u vrijeme narodnih vladara
- ↑ Jugoslavenska akademija znanosti i umjetnosti (1877). Monumenta spectantia historiam Slavorum meridionalium: Edidit Academia Scienciarum et Artium Slavorum Meridionalium. Retrieved 2015-09-08.
- 1 2 The Journal of the Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland, p. 87
- ↑ Ljubić, Š. (1865). Ogledalo književne poviesti jugoslavjanske Na podučavanje mladeži nacrtao Šime Ljubić 1. Riečki E. Mohovića tiskarski kamen. zavod. Retrieved 2015-09-08.
- 1 2 Dümmler, p. 45
- ↑ Identities in Early Medieval Dalmatia (Seventh–Eleventh Centuries): "ad Narrentanas insulas, cum Drosaico Marianorum iudice similiter fedus instituit, licet minime valeret; et sic postmodum ad Veneciam reversus est."
Sources
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