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.

King of the Slavs

Slavic

Samo, ruler of Slavs (623–658); in the Frankish Annals

Drogoviz, ruler of the Veleti (789); in Annales Mettenses priores in 805

Trpimir I, ruler of Croatia (845–864); erroneously by Gottschalk in the 840s

Svatopluk I of Moravia, ruler of Moravia (870–894); by Pope Stephen V in 885

Michael, ruler of Zahumlje (913–926); erroneously in the Annales Barenses

Mihailo Vojislavljević, ruler of Duklja (1050–1081); by Pope Gregory VII in 1077

Bodin Vojislavljević, ruler of Duklja (1081–1101); by the chronicle of Orderic Vitalis, relating to events of 1096 Stefan Dragutin, ruler of Serbia (1276–1282) and Syrmia (1282–1316); by Pope Nicholas IV in 1288

King of the Slavs

Non-Slavic

Canute Lavard, Danish prince (1120–1131); by Abbott Wilhelm after 1129

See also

King of the Wends

References

Sources

Slavic history

Kings in Europe

King of the Slavs