House of Mojmír
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The House of Mojmír is the modern name of the ruling dynasty of Great Moravia
, the Moravian principality
and the Principality of Nitra
in the 9th and early 10th century.
Its first known member (after whom the dynasty is named) was Mojmír I
. The last known members presumably died in 906 during one of the invasions of Hungarian tribes. The developments of the family before Mojmír I and after 906 are unknown.
Notable members were:
Great Moravia
Great Moravia was a Slavic state that existed in Central Europe and lasted for nearly seventy years in the 9th century whose creators were the ancestors of the Czechs and Slovaks. It was a vassal state of the Germanic Frankish kingdom and paid an annual tribute to it. There is some controversy as...
, the Moravian principality
Moravia
Moravia is a historical region in Central Europe in the east of the Czech Republic, and one of the former Czech lands, together with Bohemia and Silesia. It takes its name from the Morava River which rises in the northwest of the region...
and the Principality of Nitra
Principality of Nitra
The Principality of Nitra also Nitrian Principality or Slovak Principality is the name for a polity of Nitra Sloviens, centered on large agglomeration, a multi-tribal centre around Nitra, Slovakia. The initially independent Principality of Nitra came into existence in the early 9th century...
in the 9th and early 10th century.
Its first known member (after whom the dynasty is named) was Mojmír I
Mojmír I
Mojmir I or Moimir I was the first known ruler of the Moravian Slavs . In modern scholarship, the creation of the early medieval state known as "Great" Moravia is attributed either to his or to his successors' expansionist policy...
. The last known members presumably died in 906 during one of the invasions of Hungarian tribes. The developments of the family before Mojmír I and after 906 are unknown.
Notable members were:
- Mojmír IMojmír IMojmir I or Moimir I was the first known ruler of the Moravian Slavs . In modern scholarship, the creation of the early medieval state known as "Great" Moravia is attributed either to his or to his successors' expansionist policy...
(Prince of Moravia ?830 - 833, Prince of Great Moravia 833-846) - RastislavRastislavRastislav or Rostislav was the second known ruler of Moravia . Although he started his reign as vassal to Louis the German, king of East Francia, he consolidated his rule to the extent that after 855 he was able to repel a series of Frankish attacks...
(Prince of NitraPrincipality of NitraThe Principality of Nitra also Nitrian Principality or Slovak Principality is the name for a polity of Nitra Sloviens, centered on large agglomeration, a multi-tribal centre around Nitra, Slovakia. The initially independent Principality of Nitra came into existence in the early 9th century...
? - 846, Prince/King of Great Moravia 846-870 [867-870 de-facto Prince/King of Moravia only]) - SlavomírSlavomírSlavomír or Sclagamar was a duke of Moravia . He led a revolt against the Franks who had annexed Moravia during the incarceration of his relative, Svatopluk I.- Early life :...
(an interim ruler of Great Moravia 871) - Svatopluk ISvatopluk ISvatopluk I or Zwentibald I was the greatest ruler of Moravia that attained its maximum territorial expansion in his reign . His career had already started in the 860s, when he governed a principality, the location of which is still a matter of debate among historians, within Moravia under the...
(Prince of Nitra in 850s-871, King of Great Moravia in 871-894) - Mojmír IIMojmír IIMojmir II was the last king of the Great Moravian Empire . Because of a civil war with his brother, he failed to prevent dismemberment of his Empire and probably died while fighting Magyar invaders....
(King of Great Moravia 894-?906) - Svatopluk IISvatopluk IISvatopluk II ruled the Principality of Nitra from 894 to 906 and strove to control all of Great Moravia.Svatopluk II was a younger son of Svatopluk I. As Prince of Nitra, Svatopluk II was subordinated to his older brother Mojmír II, the King of Great Moravia which contained the principality as its...
(Prince of Nitra 894-?906) - PredslavPredslavPredslav , almost unknown son of Svatopluk, the most important King of Great Moravia .Generally, two sons of Svatopluk are known: Mojmír II and Svatopluk II. However, the famous legend of Svatopluk's twigs, written by the Byzantine emperor Constantine Porphyrogenitos around the 10th century,...
(ruler of the region around Bratislava 894 - ?; disputed)