Pribislav of Mecklenburg

Pribislav (c. 1132 – 30 December 1178), son of the Obotrite prince Niklot, was the first Prince of Mecklenburg. After Niklot fell in 1160, he and his brother Wertislav led the revolt of 1163 against Henry the Lion; defeated at Verchen in 1164, with Wertislav hanged, Pribislav fled to Pomerania.

A Cistercian monk persuaded him to side with the Christians, and in 1167 Henry restored him as Prince of Mecklenburg, founding a dynasty that ruled until 1918. He died in 1178 of wounds from a tournament at Lüneburg, succeeded by his son Henry Borwin I.