{"id":"rastislav-of-moravia","type":"person","url":"https://diginpl.com/people/rastislav-of-moravia","language":"en","name":"Rastislav of Moravia","name_en":"Rastislav of Moravia","name_ne":null,"description":"Grand Duke of Moravia","headline":"Grand Duke of Moravia","also_known_as":[],"summary":"Rastislav or Rostislav was the second known ruler of Moravia (846–870). Although he started his reign as vassal to Louis the German, the king of East Francia, he consolidated his rule to the extent that after 855 he was able to repel a series of Frankish attacks. Upon his initiative, brothers Cyril and Methodius, sent by the Byzantine Emperor Michael III in 863, translated the most important Christian liturgical books into Slavonic. Rastislav was dethroned by his nephew Svatopluk I of Moravia, who handed him over to the Franks. He was canonized by the Eastern Orthodox Church in 1994 and is also known as Saint Rastislav.","summary_more":[],"facts":[{"key":"born","label":"Born","values":[{"text":"820","date":"0820"}],"source":{"label":"Wikidata","url":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q347148#P569"}},{"key":"birthplace","label":"Place of birth","values":[{"text":"Great Moravia","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q193152"}],"source":{"label":"Wikidata","url":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q347148#P19"}},{"key":"deathplace","label":"Place of death","values":[{"text":"Regensburg","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2978"}],"source":{"label":"Wikidata","url":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q347148#P20"}},{"key":"citizenship","label":"Citizenship","values":[{"text":"Great Moravia","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q193152"}],"source":{"label":"Wikidata","url":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q347148#P27"}},{"key":"occupation","label":"Occupation","values":[{"text":"monarch","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q116"}],"source":{"label":"Wikidata","url":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q347148#P106"}},{"key":"positions","label":"Positions held","values":[{"text":"Duke of Moravia","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q9381558"}],"source":{"label":"Wikidata","url":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q347148#P39"}}],"office":null,"sections":[],"cited":[],"cited_from":null,"videos":[],"last_reviewed":null,"organizations":[],"same_as":["https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rastislav_of_Moravia","https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q347148"],"faq":[{"q":"When was Rastislav of Moravia born?","a":"Rastislav of Moravia was born on 820 in Great Moravia."},{"q":"What positions has Rastislav of Moravia held?","a":"Positions held by Rastislav of Moravia include: Duke of Moravia."}],"related":[{"name":"Mojmir I of Moravia","url":"https://diginpl.com/people/mojmir-i-of-moravia"},{"name":"Svatopluk I of Moravia","url":"https://diginpl.com/people/svatopluk-i-of-moravia"},{"name":"Mojmir II of Moravia","url":"https://diginpl.com/people/mojmir-ii-of-moravia"},{"name":"Alan Sugar","url":"https://diginpl.com/people/alan-sugar"},{"name":"Aleksandr Skorobogatko","url":"https://diginpl.com/people/aleksandr-skorobogatko"},{"name":"Alinaghi Khamoushi","url":"https://diginpl.com/people/alinaghi-khamoushi"},{"name":"Andrej Babiš","url":"https://diginpl.com/people/andrej-babis"},{"name":"Anil Ambani","url":"https://diginpl.com/people/anil-ambani"},{"name":"Anutin Charnvirakul","url":"https://diginpl.com/people/anutin-charnvirakul"},{"name":"Aziz Akhannouch","url":"https://diginpl.com/people/aziz-akhannouch"},{"name":"Bhumibol Adulyadej","url":"https://diginpl.com/people/bhumibol-adulyadej"},{"name":"Bill Haslam","url":"https://diginpl.com/people/bill-haslam"}],"places_in":[],"nearby":[],"image":{"url":"https://diginpl.com/kb-img/rastislav-of-moravia-6ca70db8a8.jpg","width":500,"height":538,"license":"Public domain","credit":"Unknown author Unknown author","page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Prince_Rastislav.JPG"},"sources":[{"label":"Wikipedia (English): Rastislav of Moravia","url":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rastislav_of_Moravia","license":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"},{"label":"Wikidata item Q347148","url":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q347148","license":"https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/"},{"label":"Image: Prince Rastislav.JPG by Unknown author Unknown author (Public domain)","url":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Prince_Rastislav.JPG","license":null}],"license":{"text":"CC BY-SA 4.0","url":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/","facts":"https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/"},"attribution":"Text from the Wikipedia article Rastislav of Moravia, licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0. This page's text is shared under the same licence. Facts from Wikidata (CC0). Image: Prince Rastislav.JPG — Unknown author Unknown author, Public domain.","cite":"\"Rastislav of Moravia\". DigiNepal. Last updated 1 November 2026. https://diginpl.com/people/rastislav-of-moravia. Retrieved 15 November 2026.","date_modified":"2026-11-01T07:02:55Z","facts_checked":"2026-11-15","alternates":{"html":"https://diginpl.com/people/rastislav-of-moravia","en":"https://diginpl.com/people/rastislav-of-moravia","ne":"https://diginpl.com/people/rastislav-of-moravia?lang=ne"}}