1224 Deaths - Vyachko of Koknese, H J Yoshitoki, Xia GUI, Christina the Astonishing, Marie of France, Duchess of Brabant (Paperback)

Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: Vyachko of Koknese, H j Yoshitoki, Xia Gui, Christina the Astonishing, Marie of France, Duchess of Brabant, William of Sainte-Mere-Eglise, Judah Messer Leon, Konrad Iii of Scharfenberg, Emperor Ningzong of Song, Yusuf Ii, Almohad Caliph, Cathal Crobhdearg Ua Conchobair, Adolf of Osnabruck, Abdul-Wahid I, Almohad Caliph, Durand of Huesca, Bernard Ii, Lord of Lippe, Gilles de Paris. Source: Wikipedia. Free updates online. Not illustrated. Excerpt: Vetseke, the king of Koknese (Latin: Russian: ), Prince Vyachko of Koknese, or Vetseke of Kokenhusen was a Russian prince, a vassal of Polotsk who fought against the expansionism of the Livonian Knights at the turn of the 13th century. His name is the Old Novgorod dialect form of Vyacheslav and his father is supposed to have been a Rurikid Prince of Drutsk. Another interpretation, based on evidence from the Chronicle of Henry of Livonia, is that Vetseke was a local elite, perhaps a Livonian, who converted to Orthodox Christianity and became a vassal of Polotsk, whereupon he changed his name to the East Slavic Vyachko. This interpreation is supported by the fact that Chronicle says the population of Koknese included Balts (Latgallians and Selonians), and even a German colony, in addition to the East Slavic element. At the time in the beginning of the 13th century, when Germans led by Albert of Buxhoeveden and the crusading Livonian Order began to establish themselves on the shores of the Gulf of Riga, Vetseke ruled the fortress of Kukenoys (modern Koknese, Latvia) some 100 km southeast. Although his principality is believed to have been subject to Polotsk, senior princes did nothing to help him withstand neither the Knights nor the Lithuanians pressure. According to the Chronicle of Henry of Livonia, it was indeed in return for protect...More: http: //booksllc.net/?id=4810936