Prosigoj
{{Infobox royalty
| name = Prosigoj
| title = Prince of Serbia
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| succession = Prince of Serbia
| reign = ? – {{circa}} 830
| predecessor = Radoslav
| pre-type = Predecessor
| successor = Vlastimir
| suc-type = Successor
| spouse =
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| consort =
| issue = Vlastimir
| house = Vlastimirović
| house-type = Dynasty
| father = Radoslav
| mother =
| birth_date = Second half of the 8th century
| birth_place =
| death_date = First half of the 9th century
| death_place =
| religion = Slavic pagan
}}
Prosigoj ({{langx|sr|Просигој}}, {{Langx|el|Προσηγόης}}){{Cref2|a}} was a Serbian ruler believed to have ruled prior to {{circa}} 830. Serbia was a Slavic principality subject to the Byzantine Empire, located in the western Balkans, bordering with Bulgaria in the east. Mentioned in the De Administrando Imperio (DAI) from the mid-10th century, he succeeded his father Radoslav and was succeeded by his son Vlastimir (r. {{circa}} 830–851).
The son of Radoslav, and grandson of Višeslav,{{sfn|Samardžić|Duškov|1993|p=24}} the first Serbian ruler by name,{{harvnb|Blagojević|Petković|1989|p=19}}; {{harvnb|Živković|2006|pp=22–23}} Prosigoj is believed to have ruled some time before {{circa}} 830,{{sfn|Živković|2006|pp=12–13}} or until 835.{{cite book|title=Vojska|volume=14|issue=675–688|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=mYIpAQAAIAAJ|year=2005|publisher=Vojnoizdavački i novinski centar|quote=}}{{better source|date=July 2016}} One of these most likely ruled during the revolt of Ljudevit of the Slavs in Lower Pannonia against the Franks (819–822).{{sfn|Ćirković|2004|pp=14–15}} According to Einhard's Royal Frankish Annals, Ljudevit fled from his seat at Sisak to the Serbs in 822,{{sfn|Ćirković|2004|pp=14–15}} with Einhard mentioning the Serbs as a people "which is said to be holding a great part of Dalmatia" (ad Sorabos, quae natio magnam Dalmatiae partem obtinere dicitur) but according to John (Jr.) Fine, it was hard to find Serbs in this area since the Byzantine sources were limited to the southern coast, also it is possible that among other tribes exists tribe of group of small tribes of Serbs.John V. A. (Jr.) Fine; (2010) When Ethnicity Did Not Matter in the Balkans p. 35; University of Michigan Press, {{ISBN|0472025600}} The mentioning of "Dalmatia" in 822 and 833 as an old geographical term by the authors of Frankish Annals was Pars pro toto with a vague perception of what this geographical term actually referred to.{{cite journal |last1=Ančić |first1=Mladen |title=Od karolinškoga dužnosnika do hrvatskoga vladara. Hrvati i Karolinško Carstvo u prvoj polovici IX. stoljeća |journal=Zavod za povijesne znanosti HAZU u Zadru |date=1998 |volume=40 |page=32 |url=https://hrcak.srce.hr/index.php?show=clanak&id_clanak_jezik=143872}} At this time, there was still peace with Bulgaria. His son Vlastimir is the eponymous founder of the Vlastimirović dynasty, which ruled until c. 960.
The four named succeeding Serbian rulers are not mentioned in the Chronicle of the Priest of Duklja ({{abbr|CPD|Chronicle of the Priest of Duklja}}),{{sfn|SANU|1934|p=11}} a source dating to c. 1300–10{{sfn|Živković|Kunčer|2009|pp=362–365}} and largely discredited in historiography (the CPD is deemed useless for events in the Early Middle Ages).{{sfn|Živković|2006|pp=16}} Instead, the CPD mentions several historically unconfirmed or legendary rulers, Svevlad, Selimir, Vladin and Ratimir, although it maintains the patrilineal succession tradition.{{sfn|Živković|2006|p=23}} According to Sima Lukin Lazić (1863–1904), Prosigoj was dead by the time of a Bulgar attack on Serbia following the Bulgar conquest of Frankish-held Banat and Syrmia.{{cite book|author=Sima Lukin Lazić|title=Kratka povjesnica Srba: od postanja Srpstva do danas|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=H25EAQAAMAAJ|year=1894|publisher=Štamparija Karla Albrehta|page=37}}
See also
{{Vlastimirović dynasty sidebar}}
Annotations
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{{Cnote2|a|In the De Administrando Imperio, his name is spelled {{lang|grc|Προσηγόης}}, transcribed in Latin as Prosegoës or Prosegoïs.{{cite book|last=Winkelmann|first=Friedhelm |title=Prosopographie der mittelbyzantinischen Zeit|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=QLsVAQAAMAAJ|year=2001|publisher=W. de Gruyter|isbn=978-3-11-016674-3|page=36}} It is a Slavic dithematic name, derived from the imperative prosi, prositi, meaning "asking, begging", and noun goj, meaning "peace" and "breeding", and is related to the name Prosimir.{{cite book|author=Univerza v Mariboru, Zgodovinsko društvo v Mariboru|title=Review for history and ethnography|volume=15|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=J-BBAAAAYAAJ|year=1981|publisher=Založba obzorja|page=48}} }}
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References
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Sources
;Primary sources
- {{Cite book|editor-last=Moravcsik|editor-first=Gyula|editor-link=Gyula Moravcsik|title=Constantine Porphyrogenitus: De Administrando Imperio|year=1967|orig-year=1949|edition=2nd revised|location=Washington D.C.|publisher=Dumbarton Oaks Center for Byzantine Studies|isbn=9780884020219|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=3al15wpFWiMC}}
- {{Cite book|editor-last=Pertz|editor-first=Georg Heinrich|editor-link=Georg Heinrich Pertz|title=Einhardi Annales|year=1845|location=Hanover|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=yBhKAAAAcAAJ}}
- {{Cite book|editor-last=Scholz|editor-first=Bernhard Walter|title=Carolingian Chronicles: Royal Frankish Annals and Nithard's Histories|year=1970|publisher=University of Michigan Press|isbn=0472061860|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=sTzl6wFjehMC}}
- {{Cite book|last=Кунчер|first=Драгана|year=2009|title=Gesta Regum Sclavorum|volume=1|location=Београд-Никшић|publisher=Историјски институт, Манастир Острог}}
- {{Cite book|last=Живковић|first=Тибор|authorlink=Tibor Živković|year=2009|title=Gesta Regum Sclavorum|volume=2|location=Београд-Никшић|publisher=Историјски институт, Манастир Острог}}
;Secondary sources
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- {{cite book|last1=Blagojević|first1=Miloš|authorlink1=Miloš Blagojević|last2=Petković|first2=Sreten |title=Srbija u doba Nemanjića: od kneževine do carstva : 1168-1371 : ilustrovana hronika|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=2XBpAAAAMAAJ|year=1989|publisher=TRZ "VAJAT"|isbn=9788670390287}}
- {{Cite book|last=Ćirković|first=Sima|authorlink=Sima Ćirković|year=2004|title=The Serbs|location=Malden|publisher=Blackwell Publishing|isbn=9781405142915|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=2Wc-DWRzoeIC}}
- {{cite book|last=Ćorović|first=Vladimir|authorlink=Vladimir Ćorović|title=Istorija srpskog naroda|edition=Internet|year=2001|origyear=1997|location=Belgrade|publisher=Janus; Ars Libri|url=http://www.rastko.rs/rastko-bl/istorija/corovic/istorija/index.html}}
- {{Cite book|last=Fine|first=John Van Antwerp Jr.|authorlink=John Van Antwerp Fine Jr.|title=The Early Medieval Balkans: A Critical Survey from the Sixth to the Late Twelfth Century|year=1991|origyear=1983|location=Ann Arbor, Michigan|publisher=University of Michigan Press|isbn=0472081497|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Y0NBxG9Id58C}}
- {{cite web|last=Ferjančić|first=Božidar|authorlink=Božidar Ferjančić|title=Posebna Izdanja - Vizantijski Izvori Za Istoriju Naroda Jugoslavije Tom 2|year=1959|publisher=SAN|url=https://www.scribd.com/doc/15762910/SANU-Posebna-Izdanja-Vizantijski-Izvori-Za-Istoriju-Naroda-Jugoslavije-Tom-2}}
- {{cite book|last1=Samardžić|first1=Radovan|authorlink1=Radovan Samardžić|last2=Duškov|first2=Milan|title=Serbs in European civilization|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=O3MtAQAAIAAJ|year=1993|publisher=Nova|isbn=978-86-7583-015-3|page=24}}
- {{cite book|author=SANU|title=Posebna izdanja|volume=103|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=WFEV2XMaNHUC|year=1934|publisher=Srpska akademija nauka i umetnosti|page=11}}
- {{cite book | last=Živković | first=Tibor | authorlink=Tibor Živković | title=Portreti srpskih vladara (IX—XII vek) | year=2006 | location=Belgrade | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=d-KTAAAACAAJ | isbn=86-17-13754-1 | pages=11–20 }}
- {{cite book | last=Živković | first=Tibor |title=Јужни Словени под византијском влашћу, 600-1025|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=oE-gAAAAMAAJ|year=2002|publisher=Историјски институт| isbn=9788677430276 }}
- {{Cite book|last=Živković|first=Tibor|authorlink=Tibor Živković|title=Forging unity: The South Slavs between East and West 550-1150|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=JlIsAQAAIAAJ|year=2008|location=Belgrade|publisher=The Institute of History, Čigoja štampa|isbn=9788675585732}}
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Category:9th-century Serbian monarchs