Natangians

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Natangians in the context of the other Baltic tribes, circa 1200 CE. The Eastern Balts are shown in brown hues while the Western Balts are shown in green. The boundaries are approximate.
Natangians in the context of the other Baltic tribes, circa 1200 CE. The Eastern Balts are shown in brown hues while the Western Balts are shown in green. The boundaries are approximate.

Natangians or Notangians (Prussian: Notangi) clan of Prussian people from the area of Natangia, marked by the rivers Pregel(now Pregolya) and Alle. Their lands bordered with Sambia by Pregel and Warmia in the direction of the Vistula Bay. They likely spoke a West Baltic language, now extinct, similar to Old Prussian language. They were Lithuanized and Germanized by the 16th century.[citation needed]

Folk etymology says that Natangia was derived from Prussian brothers named Natango.

Natangians were often mentioned in Teutonic Order's chronicles in connection with their revolts (together with the other Prussians) against the Order; most of them participated also in the Sambian-Notangian peasants’ revolt of 1525. The 14th century chronicle by Peter of Dusburg provided plots for the historical drama Herkus Mantas by Juozas Grušas (about a fate of the Natangian and all-Prussian chief Herkus Monte[1]), opera The Prussians by Giedrius Kuprevičius, and the film Herkus Mantas by Marijonas Giedrys.

  1. ^ The Notangian Mantas had received in childhood the German baptismal name Heinrich, but re-converting to ancient Prussian religion in 1260, he dropped two letters in the Latin form of his name (Henrikus), and from then on called himself Herkus Mantas.
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