Their organisation was similar to other such armed units of other Slavic rulers, and were often of foreign origin.

In the High Middle Ages German settlers were called in by Slavic rulers.

Slavic rulers called German settlers into the country, offering them freedom but gaining taxes at the same time.

Abu Muhammad Abdallah ben Muhammad el Sabur al-Saqlabi: 1013-1022 (Slavic ruler).

In the 1870s he was again pitted against a leading historian, this time Dmitry Ilovaisky, who advocated an Iranian origin of the earliest East Slavic rulers.

The Chronicle is divided into three parts: the genealogy of Slavic rulers, the legend of Vladimir the Great and the Dukljanska Chronicle from the 11th and 12th centuries.

She was a daughter of certain Dobromir, most likely a Slavic ruler of Lusatia and Milsko, who was named venerable (probably meaning "prince") by Thietmar of Merseburg.

It is probable that he lost his belief in weak Wladislaus and saw the new king as the Slavic ruler who could be able to group all Polish lands in one hand.

Rather than practising primogeniture, Slavic rulers practiced staresina, where rule fell upon the eldest person in the extended family (rather than the son of the King).

Thus Pribina might have been the first Slavic ruler to convert Christianity.