King of the Slavs () 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 (623âÂÂ658); 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 805
- Trpimir I, ruler of Duchy of Croatia (845âÂÂ864); erroneously by Gottschalk in the 840s
- Svatopluk I of Moravia, ruler of Great Moravia (870âÂÂ894); by Pope Stephen V in 885
- Michael, ruler of Zachlumia (913âÂÂ926); erroneously in the Annales Barenses
- Mihailo VojislavljeviÃÂ, ruler of Duklja (1050âÂÂ1081); by Pope Gregory VII in 1077
- Constantine Bodin (Bodin VojislavljeviÃÂ), ruler of Duklja (1081âÂÂ1101); by the chronicle of Orderic Vitalis, relating to events of 1096
- Canute Lavard, Danish prince (1120âÂÂ1131); by Abbott Wilhelm after 1129
- Canute VI, King of Denmark; by himself in 1185, after a conquest of Pomerania
- Stefan Dragutin, ruler of Kingdom of Serbia (1276âÂÂ1282) and Syrmia (Realm of Stefan Dragutin; 1282âÂÂ1316); by Pope Nicholas IV in 1288
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