Principality of Jersika
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Was an early medieval Latgalian principality in eastern modern-day Latvia.
Establishment
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. Events
January 1191: The Principality of Koknese was established in the 1180s.
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.
Disestablishment
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: 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.
