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available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pribislav (died
after 1156) was a 12th century prince of the West Slavic Obotrites with
his power base in Wagria. Pribislav was the son of Budivoj. After the
murder of Canute Lavard in 1131, the Obotrite lands were partitioned
between Pribislav and Niklot, with the former receiving Wagria and
Polabia and the latter Mecklenburg until the Peene River; Pribislav
received the title regulus, or lesser king and resided in Liubice. A
follower of Slavic paganism, Pribislav was described by Emperor Lothair
III, whom he was dependent upon, as an enemy of Christianity and an
idolator. After the death of Lothair in 1137, Lothair's son-in-law Henry
the Proud and Margrave Albert the Bear fought over the Duchy of Saxony.
Pribislav took advantage of the struggle to rebel against the authority
of the Holy Roman Empire by destroying the new castle of Segeburg and
invading Holstein in Summer 1138.
