polotsk

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Principality of Polotsk

Establishment

January 1001: The isolation of the Polotsk land from Kiev and its transformation into an independent principality actually began already under Izyaslav.

January 1001: Jersika was established in the 10th century as an outpost of the principality of Polotsk on the old "trade route from the Varangians to the Greeks".

January 1001: Metsepole was an ancient Livonian county inhabited by the Finnic Livonians from ca. 1000 AD.

January 1001: Tālava was a Latgalian country in the northern Vidzeme and northern Latgale region of modern-day Latvia from ca. 1180.

Chronology

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1. Danish invasion of northern Germany (1201)

Was the invasion of northern Germany by king Canute VI of Denmark caused by disagreement with Adolf III, Count of Schauenburg and Holstein, over the possession of the island of Rügen.

January 1202: Albrecht von Buxthoeven, consecrated as bishop in 1199, arrived the following year with a large force, and established Riga as the seat of his Bishopric of Riga in 1201.

2. Further events (Unrelated to Any War)

January 1101: After the late 10th century, Polotsk, ruled by Prince Vseslav of Polotsk, successfully expanded its territory to include lands inhabited by the ancestors of today's Latvians and Lithuanians.

January 1102: Following the death of Vseslav of Polotsk in 1101, Polotsk was divided into six smaller principalities each to be inherited by one of his six surviving sons. Vseslav's second born son, Sviatoslav Vseslavich inherited the lands surrounding Vitebsk.

January 1102: In 1101, during the division of the possessions of the Polotsk prince Vseslav Bryachislavich between the sons, the single Polotsk principality was divided into 6 or 7 appanages. One of such was the Minsk principality.

January 1102: The appanage duchy of Drutsk was established after the death of Vseslav, the Prince of Polotsk, in 1101 and the division of the Polatsk territory between Vseslav's sons.

January 1102: Borisov principality was an appanage principality that supposedly existed in the 12th century as the inheritance of the Polotsk principality.

January 1191: The Principality of Koknese was established in the 1180s.

January 1206: Vetseke gave half of his land to Albert of Riga in 1205 in return for protection against the Duchy of Samogitia.

January 1209: By 1208 the important Daugava trading posts of Salaspils, Koknese and Sēlpils Castle had been taken over by the Livonian Order.

January 1209: By 1208 the important Daugava trading posts of Salaspils, Koknese and Sēlpils Castle had been taken over as a result of Albert's energetic campaigning.

January 1210: In 1209 Visvaldis, the prince of Jersika, was defeated by bishop Albert of Riga and the Livonian Brothers of the Sword, and his Lithuanian wife taken prisoner. He was forced to submit his kingdom to Albert as a grant to the Bishopric of Riga, and received back only a portion of it as a fief. He lost the ands of Autīne and Cesvaine.

January 1210: By 1209 Koknese had been taken over by the Brothers of the Sword and the sovereignty of Polotsk was finally revoked in 1215.

January 1210: In 1209 Albert, leading the forces of the Order, captured the capital of the Latgalian Principality of Jersika, and took the wife of the ruler Visvaldis captive. Visvaldis was forced to submit his kingdom.

January 1228: With the wars against Estonians from 1208 to 1227, the Livonian Brothers of the Sword conquered Estonia with the exception of Saarema and Danish Estonia.

January 1238: Lithuania, taking advantage of the conflict between the Teutonic and Livonian Orders, launched an attack on Ruthenia and successfully annexed the regions of Navahrudak and Hrodna.