Ljudevit (Lower Pannonia)

Ljudevit/Liudewit
Duke of Lower Pannonia
Reignc. 810 – c. 823
SuccessorRatimir
Died823
Dalmatia

Ljudevit (pronounced [ʎûdeʋit]) or Liudewit (Latin: Liudewitus), often also Ljudevit Posavski, was the Duke of the Slavs in Lower Pannonia from 810 to 823. The capital of his realm was in Sisak (today in Croatia). As the ruler of the Pannonian Slavs, he led a resistance to Frankish domination. Having lost the war against the Franks, who were aided by Borna duke of Guduscani, Dalmatia and Liburnia, Ljudevit fled first to an unknown Serbian župa (a topic of historical debates) and killed the presiding Serbian župan there. He then fled to the Dalmatian duke Ljudemisl, who then killed him.

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