European Kingdoms

Principality of Gersik / Jersika
AD 1180s - 1215

The European region which today is known as the Baltic States sits at the junction in Eastern Europe with Northern Europe. While the southern two states of Lithuania and Latvia are counted as Eastern European, Estonia is more typically grouped with its Northern European cousins.

It was around this time that a short-lived Lat principality which was subject to Polotsk appeared in Gersik, or Gersike, situated on the right bank of the Daugava around 150 kilometres south of Riga (and which no longer exists). It had only two rulers before being conquered by the Order of the Knights of the Sword.

fl 1180s - 1190s

Lat chief of Gersik.

1186 - 1215

Lat chief of Gersik.