Mojmír II

High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Mojmír II (?-(?)906) was the last king of the Great Moravian Empire (894-?906). Because of a civil war with his brother, he failed to prevent dismemberment of his Empire and probably died while fighting Magyar invaders. Mojmír succeeded his father Svatopluk I as the king of Great Moravia in 894. At the same time, the Principality of Nitra was given as an appanage to his brother Svatopluk II. But Svatopluk II, supported by Arnulf of Carinthia, king of East Francia, rebelled against Mojmír II in 895 and again in 897, when he concluded an agreement of cooperation with Arnulf. As a result, Mojmír II attacked his brother, but was defeated by East Frankish troops sent to support Svatopluk II's rebellion. Weakened by internal conflict, Great Moravia lost its peripheral territories: It ceded the Balaton Principality to the Eastern Franks in 894, after Magyar tribes had looted this region. Bohemia, seceding from Great Moravia in the following year, became Arnulf s vassal. Another danger emerged, when Magyars crossed the Carpathians to definitely stay in the Carpathian Basin (895/896).... Mehr