Lampert iz Hersfelda, pisao oko 1078g, o kralju Dimitriju i njegovoj poseti kralju Henriju
1075 godina
A few days later he came to Mainz and there he was met by the king of the Russians, whose name was Demetrius.
Sigibert, pisao oko 1100, o kralju Dimitriju i dinastickoj borbi za presto koji vodi sa bracom
Hildebrand, archdeacon of the Romans, who is also called Gregory [VII], becamethe one-hundred-and fifty-third [pope] to preside over the Roman Church [29 June]. Hermanof Liège became the bishop of Metz [r.1073-1090]. Two brothers, kings of the Russians, werecontending for the kingdom, one of them [Iziaslav of Kiev] was expelled from a share in thekingdom1 and addressed Emperor Henry [IV] [in 1075], submitting himself and the kingdomof the Russians to [Henry], if he would help to restore the kingdom [to Iziaslav]. But this wasin vain; for most serious dissension had arisen in the [Holy] Roman Empire and [Henry]advised that he preferred to defend his own [kingdom], than to obtain another’s.2 For theSaxons, having been affected by many and great injuries and injustices by the emperor,rebelled against him; whom the emperor immediately intended to subdue
Komentar priredjivaca
See also Lampert of Hersfeld, Annales, a.1075, pp. 262-3. After Henry refused to help him, Iziaslav turned to Gregory VII, who wrote a letter addressing to Iziaslav as ‘King of all the Russians’, see Cowdrey, Gregory VII, pp. 452-3.
Bas u vreme kada navodni hrvatski kralj Dimitrije salje zavernicu papi Grguru, istorija je putem latinskih izvora i pisama Grgura 7 zapamtila jednog drugog kralja Dimitrija, Izjaslava, i njegovu dinasticku borbu za tron. Kralj Dimitrije je prvo trazio pomoc germanskog kralja Henrija IV, a kade je nije dobio obratio se papi Grguru 7.
Hrvatski kralj Dimitrije, koji se navodno obraca papi Grguru 7 iste godine kada i ruski kralj Dimitrije, nije zabelezen nigde, niti u jednom izvoru, niti u papskom pismu. Nigde i nidje.
Dalmacijom je u predmetnom periodu vladao kralj Mihajlo kome je Grgur 7 upitio pismo sa molbom da posreduje u crkvenom sporu izmedju dalmatinskih gradova Splita i Dubrovnika. Zvonimiru pismo uputio nije jer ga nije bilo, Zvonimira. Ako je i postojao nije mogao biti politicki cinilac jer se papa obraca jedino Mihajlu.