Biography
Zdeslav was a son of Trpimir I. After his father death in 864, an uprising was raised by a powerful Croatian nobleman from Knin - Domagoj, and Zdeslav was exiled with his brothers, Petar and Muncimir to Constantinople. Zdeslav deposed Domagoj's sons in 878 with the help of the Byzantines. He acknowledge the supreme rule of Byzantine Emperor Basil I.
In 879, the Pope ask for help from prince Zdeslav for an armed escort for his delegates across southern Dalmatia and Zahumlje. On early May 879, Zdeslav was killed by arrows near Knin in an uprising led by Branimir, a relative of Domagoj, instigated by the Roman Pope fearing Byzantine power.
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