Later he was the first Duke of Schleswig and the first border prince who was both a Danish and a German vassal, a position leafing towards the historical double position of Southern Jutland.
Niklot began his open resistance when Lothar III, Holy Roman Emperor, granted the Obotrite realm to his Danish vassal Canute Lavard.
Canute Lavard | Canute I of Sweden | Canute II of Sweden | Canute Peterson House | Canute |
Ingeborg Mstislavna of Kiev (fl. 1137) was a Russian princess, married to the Danish prince Canute Lavard of Jutland.
In the years which followed Vicelin's mission, the Emperor Lothair II thoroughly encastellated Wagria and Canute Lavard and the Holsteiners invaded it and took Pribislav and Niklot, the Wagrian leaders, away in chains.