"Gryfici" redirects here. For Polish noble family, see Gryfit family.
House of Griffin
Parent house
House of Piast[1][2] or Gryfit family[3]
Country
Kingdom of Poland
Duchy of Pomerania
Kalmar Union
Holy Roman Empire
Founded
12th century
Founder
Wartislaw I
Final ruler
Bogislaw XIV
Titles
King of Denmark
King of Norway
King of Sweden
Duke of Pomerania
Duke of Pomerelia
Prince of Rügen
Dissolution
1660
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The House of Griffin or Griffin dynasty[4] (German: Greifen; Polish: Gryfici, Danish: Grif; Latin: Gryphes[5])[a] was a dynasty ruling the Duchy of Pomerania from the 12th century until 1637. The name "Griffins" was used by the dynasty after the 15th century[10] and had been taken from the ducal coat of arms. Duke Wartislaw I (died 1135) was the first historical ruler of the Duchy of Pomerania and the founder of the Griffin dynasty. The most prominent Griffin was Eric of Pomerania, who became king of the Kalmar Union in 1397, thus ruling Denmark, Sweden and Norway. The last Griffin duke of Pomerania was Bogislaw XIV, who died during the Thirty Years' War, which led to the division of Pomerania between Brandenburg-Prussia and Sweden. Duchess Anna von Croy, daughter of Duke Bogislaw XIII and the last Griffin, died in 1660.
^A. Małecki, Studya heraldyczne [Heraldic Studies], vol. I, Lwów 1890, pp. 268–285; M. L. Wójcik, Ród Gryfitów do końca XIII wieku. Pochodzenie — genealogia — rozsiedlenie, Historia CVII, Wrocław 1993, p. 39.
^Rodowód książąt pomorskich Edward Rymar Książnica Pomorska, 2005, page 53
^According to Jan Długosz
^Gerald Stone, Slav Outposts in Central European History: The Wends, Sorbs and Kashubs (Bloomsbury, 2016).
^Sithman, J. (1654). "Hieroglyphica Exequialia Reverendissimi, Illustrissimi, Et Celsissimi Principis Bogislai XIV. Inclyti Ducis Pomeraniae, Antiquae Illustrissimae Stirpis, Proh Dolor! Ultimi: In Defuncti Optimi Ducis ... Ad fati & aevitatis memoriam erecta & declarata". digital.slub-dresden.de (in Latin). Stetini. Retrieved 2023-09-04.
^Nora Berend, Przemysław Urbańczyk and Przemysław Wiszewski, Central Europe in the High Middle Ages: Bohemia, Hungary and Poland, c.900–c.1300 (Cambridge University Press, 2013).
^Robert von Friedeburg, Self-Defence and Religious Strife in Early Modern Europe: England and Germany, 1530-1680 (Routledge, 2002)
^E. J. Feuchtwanger, Prussia: Myth and Reality — The Role of Prussia in German History (Wolff, 1970).
^F. L. Carsten, Origins of Prussia (Clarendon Press, 1954).
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