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• FSID: LYSZ-QKV
• Appointments / Titles: Between 747 and 795; Supreme prince of the Obodrit union

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Vyshan History:

https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/Вышан

Vyshan[1] (German). Witzan, Latin. Witzlaus (born 795 in Luna) is the supreme prince of the Obodrite Tribal Union (747 ?-795). The first of the Obodrite princes mentioned in modern historical sources.
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Genealogy of local rulers compiled in Mecklenburg in the XVIII century reports that Vyshan was the only son of the Obodrite Prince Aribert II[2] and his wife, daughter of the Anglo-Saxon Prince Alfred, who died in 747. Georg Rüksner[de] in 1530 in the manuscript "Origines et insignia regum Obotritarum et ducum Mecklenburgensium" wrote about the "Russian wife" of King Vitislava[3], and J., who lived in the XVII century. F. Kemnitz mentioned her as "the daughter of the prince from Russia and Lithuania". Mecklenburg legends also tell about Vyšan's campaign against Magdeburg in 782, during which the city was completely destroyed by the odorrified[4]. However, since this information is not confirmed by other sources, historians consider these evidence unreliable[5][6][7][8].
Vyshan's first reliable mention in a historical source dates back to 789, when he and his future successor Dragko[9] were named among the participants of a large campaign organized by Frankish King Charlemagne against Slavic Vilians, long-term enemies of obodrites. The Annals interpret Vyšan's status in different ways in this campaign: some sources call him a vassal of the Frankish state, some call him an ally, on the basis of which historians assume the existence of a Franco-Obodrite alliance against the Vilians, dating its conclusion to 780[10]. The latter assumption is also supported by Einhard's testimony, who reported that the reason for the campaign was repeated attacks by the Vilians on the lands of the Obodrites, allies of the Franks[11]. During the campaign, in which, in addition to the Franks and Obodrites, the Saxons, Sorbians and Frisians also participated, Charlemagne managed to defeat the army of the Vilts and force them to Prince Dragovit to recognize his dependence on the Frankish state[12][13].
In the following years, Vyshan continued to be a loyal ally of Charlemagne. This led the Obodrites to clash with their neighbors, the Nordalbing Saxons, the main opponents of the Franks during the last stage of the long-term Saxon Wars. In 795, the Frankish ruler organized a new campaign against the rebels, intending to strike at the northern Saxony with the help of the Obodrites. However, while waiting for the arrival of the Slavs in Bardovik, Charlemagne learned that when crossing the Elbe near the village of Lüne (near modern Lüneburg), the Obodrite army was ambushed by the Saxons, and that Vyshan himself died during the battle. In response to the death of the prince, the Frankish king ravaged the Saxon lands between Weser and the Elbe, owned by the Nordalbing allies, and resettled 7,070 Saxons to the interior of the Frankish state[14][15].
After Vyshan's death, Dragko became the new supreme prince of the Obodrit Union. Modern historical sources do not report anything about his relationship with his predecessor[16], but Mecklenburg genealogies call Dragko, as well as Godlav and Slavomir, sons of Vyshana[4].

Family/Spouse: Unknown. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• FSID: LYSZ-774

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Godlib History:
https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/Годлиб_(князь_ободритов)

Godlib (Godolyub, Godeleib, Godlaw, killed in 808) is one of the specific princes of the Union of Obodrites. Brother of the Grand Dukes of the Union of Obodrites - Thrascon and Slavomir.
His name in comes from the Lower German Godleifr. It was suggested that the name could be just a form of the Slavic name Boguslav.
In 808, after the death of Trascon, he was captured and hanged by the army of Goodfred, ruler of southern Denmark, who attacked the Obodrite tribal alliance and seized part of their lands, including the settlement of Roerik (there is information that the Danes called Veligrad so). It is impossible to say abolutically clear whether he could ever succeed Trascon as Grand Duke, or would continue to lead only some part of the tribal union.
According to F. Wigger, Danish and English sources also called Godlib Prince of the Varyags.
Writer Marmier published a legend about Godlib's sons in 1857:
Another tradition of Mecklenburg deserves mention, as it is related to the history of the great power. In the 8th century AD, the Obodrite tribe was ruled by a king named Godlaw, the father of three young men who are equally strong, brave and thirsty for glory. The first was called Rurik, the second was called Sivar, the third Truvar. The three brothers, having no opportunity to test their courage in their father's peaceful kingdom, decided to go in search of battles and adventures in other lands. ... After many good deeds and terrible battles, the brothers, whom they admired and blessed, came to Russia. The people of this country suffered under the burden of long tyranny, against which no one else dared to rebel. Three brothers, touched by his misfortune, woke up his lulled courage, gathered an army, led him and overthrew the power of the oppressors. Having restored peace and order in the country, the brothers decided to return to their old father, but the grateful people begged them not to leave and take the place of the former kings. Then Rurik received the Novgorod Principality, Sivar Pskov, Truvar Beloozerskoe. After a while, as the younger brothers died without leaving children, Rurik annexed their principalities to his own and became the head of the dynasty that reigned until 1598.

Family/Spouse: von Nowgorod, Umila. Umila was born in 815; died in DECEASED. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Appointments / Titles: Denmark
• FSID: 935Z-J1R
• Appointments / Titles: Between 862 and 879, Novgorod, Russia; Prince of Novgorod

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RURIK [Roric] (-[879]).  According to the Primary Chronicle 860/62, following a call to "the Varangian Russes [=Scandinavians]…to come to rule and reign over us", Rurik and his two brothers migrated to settle, Rurik the oldest brother settling in Novgorod[15].  Franklin & Shephard comment that "the story [in the Primary Chronicle]…remains highly controversial"[16].  The initial Scandinavian settlements seem to have been at Gorodishche, the town of Novgorod (as its name implies) being a new settlement which was probably established nearby in the 950s[17].  The Primary Chronicle records Rurik´s death in 879[18].  This chronology is dubious when compared with the more robust dates attributable to his supposed grandson Sviatoslav (see below).  m ---.  The name of Rurik´s wife is not known.  Rurik & his wife had [two possible children]:

Rurik married of Novgorod, Princess Efanda-Edvina in 877 in Velikiy Novgorod, Novgorod, Russia. Efanda-Edvina (daughter of Ketil Prince) was born in 857 in Velikiy Novgorod, Novgorod, Russia; died in 930. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• FSID: LCN5-99B
• Life Event: 879; Forster son of his uncle Oleg of Kiev
• Appointments / Titles: 924, Kiev, Kiev, Ukraine; Grand Duke of Kiev

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Igor of Kiev History:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Igor_of_Kiev

britannica.com/biography/Igor
Igor, also called Ingvar, (born c. 877—died 945, Dereva region [Russia]), grand prince of Kiev and presumably the son of Rurik, prince of Novgorod, who is considered the founder of the dynasty that ruled Kievan Rus and, later, Muscovy until 1598. Igor, successor to the great warrior and diplomat Oleg (reigned c. 879–912), assumed the throne of Kiev in 912.
Depicted as a greedy, rapacious, and unsuccessful prince by the 12th-century The Russian Primary Chronicle, Igor in 913–914 led an expedition into Transcaucasia that ended in total disaster for his forces. He also conducted two expeditions against Byzantium (941 and 944), but many of his ships were destroyed by “Greek fire,” and the treaty that he finally concluded in 944 was less advantageous to Kiev than the one obtained by Oleg in 911. Igor did manage to extend the authority of Kiev over the Pechenegs, a Turkic people inhabiting the steppes north of the Black Sea, as well as over the East Slavic tribe of Drevlyane. When he went to Dereva (the land of the Drevlyane located in the region of the Pripet River) to collect tribute (945), however, his attempt to extort more than the customary amount provoked the Drevlyane into rebelling and killing him.

https://www.warhistoryonline.com/war-articles/igor-of-kiev.htmlIgor of Kiev History:

Igor the Old (Old East Slavic: Игорь, Igor'; Russian: Игорь Рюрикович; Ukrainian: Ігор Рюрикович; Old Norse: Ingvarr Hrøríkrsson; died 945) was a Rurikid ruler of Kievan Rus' from 912 to 945.
Information about Igor comes mostly from the Primary Chronicle. This document has Igor as the son of Rurik, the first ruler of Kievan Rus':

On his deathbed, Rurik bequeathed his realm to Oleg, who belonged to his kin, and entrusted to Oleg's hands his son Igor', for he was very young.

Oleg set forth, taking with him many warriors from among the Varangians, the Chuds, the Slavs, the Merians and all the Krivichians. He thus arrived with his Krivichians before Smolensk, captured the city, and set up a garrison there. Thence he went on and captured Lyubech, where he also set up a garrison. He then came to the hills of Kiev, and saw how Askold and Dir reigned there. He hid his warriors in the boats, left some others behind, and went forward himself bearing the child Igor'. He thus came to the foot of the Hungarian hill, and after concealing his troops, he sent messengers to Askold and Dir, representing himself as a stranger on his way to Greece on an errand for Oleg and for Igor', the prince's son, and requesting that they should come forth to greet them as members of their race. Askold and Dir straightway came forth. Then all the soldiery jumped out of the boats, and Oleg said to Askold and Dir, "You are not princes nor even of princely stock, but I am of princely birth." Igor' was then brought forward, and Oleg announced that he was the son of Rurik. They killed Askold and Dir, and after carrying them to the hill, they buried them there, on the hill now known as Hungarian, where the castle of Ol'ma now stands.[1]

Igor married of Kievian Rus', Saint Olga in 903. Olga (daughter of of Novgorod, Prince Oleg and Ketilsdatter, Queen Thorunn Hydrna) was born in 890 in Pskov, Russia; was christened in 955 in Istanbul, Istanbul, Turkey; died on 11 Jul 969 in Kiev, Kiev, Ukraine. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]