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d.6 Jun 1066
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Name Gottschalk of the Obotrites
Gender Male
Marriage to Sigrid Svendsdatter
Death[1] 6 Jun 1066
Reference Number? Q535823?


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Saint Gottschalk (or Godescalc) (died 7 June 1066) was a prince of the Obotrite confederacy from 1043 to 1066. He established a Slavic kingdom on the Elbe (in the area of present-day northeastern Germany) in the mid-11th century. His object in life seems to have been to collect the scattered tribes of the Slavs into one kingdom, and to make that kingdom Christian.

"A pious and god-fearing man", Gottschalk effected the Christianisation of the Slavic tribes of the Elbe. He organised missions of German priests and founded monasteries at Oldenburg, Mecklenburg, Ratzeburg, Lübeck, and Lenzen, erecting the first three into dioceses. He himself often accompanied the missionaries on their work and augmented their message with his own explanations and instructions. In all this, he was supported by the efforts of Adalbert, Archbishop of Hamburg. However, the Obotrite nobility and peasantry largely remained pagan.

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  1. ↑ Gottschalk (Obotrite prince), in Wikipedia: The Free Encyclopedia.
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