Niklot

Niklot (c. 1090 – August 1160) was a pagan prince of the Slavic Obotrites, ruling their confederacy from 1130/1131 as lord of Schwerin. He resisted Saxon princes for nearly thirty years. After the Wendish Crusade of 1147 he became a tributary vassal of Henry the Lion, in whose service he crushed a tribal rising in 1151.

In 1160 Henry and Valdemar the Great of Denmark attacked him, and Niklot was killed at Burg Werle. His death ended Slavic rule in Mecklenburg; he was ancestor of the House of Mecklenburg.