Vizimir II

Vizimir II (d. July ), known as the Just, was King of Redania during the 13th century and the son of Heribert and Diana de Saint-Villiers.
Philippa Eilhart was an advisor in Vizimir's court, and not only held her position but also bolstered it in the years following Vizimir's death at the end of an elven assassin's blade. He was succeeded by the Regency Council, headed by Sigismund Dijkstra and Philippa Eilhart.
==Biography==
===Early reign===
Vizimir was married to Hedwig of Malleore, with whom he had three children: son Radovid V and daughters Dalimira and Milena.
He wished to join the royal families of Redania and Temeria, and thus offered his daughter Dalimira to Foltest. The young king of Temeria refused, though, and so relations between the two kingdoms grew cold.
During his reign, he annexed Arcsea when its ruler, Audoen, died.
===Northern wars===
In , he united the armies of Redania, Temeria, Aedirn and Kaedwen during the First Northern War against the Nilfgaardian Empire. At the Battle of Sodden Hill, the northern armies defeated the invading Nilfgaard.
After the war, with conflict still present, Vizimir's actions against the Nilfgaardians forced Novigrad into ius stapulae, stopping all merchandise passing the city for the purpose of seizing and selling Temerian and Nilfgaardian wares. 
In early , with political tension on the rise, Vizimir was summoned by King Demavend III to Hagge in Aedirn, where he met with the leaders of the Northern Kingdoms, Demavend, Foltest, Meve and Henselt. Vizimir promoted an attack on the Nilfgaardians, as he believed like the First Landing, the Nilfgaardian invasion would never rest. He suggested Crach an Craite's and Ethain of Cidaris' fleets attack the Nilfgaardians along the eastern shores from the Yaruga to Ebbing. While the group discussed battle plans, Vizimir also noted Vilgefortz and the Chapter of the Gift and the Art wouldn't follow the idea of an attack on the Nilfgaardians, as Vilgefortz himself organized the peace treaty after the First Northern War. He knew if Cintra were to be re-taken, it had to be an independent Cintran ruler, not one of the other northern kings, and if Emhyr var Emreis were to marry Ciri, they would lose the country to her royal blood, so he suggested she must die.
===Death===
The night of the coup on Thanedd Island, Vizimir was murdered by an elf or half-elfIn , Milva suggests it may have been a half-elf. assassin, who was allegedly mentally controlled by Philippa Eilhart. A year later, the Nilfgaardian Military Intelligence revealed the guilt of Philippa to Sigismund Dijkstra; before he managed to arrest Philippa however, she sent assassins to kill him, but he eventually managed to escape from the Northern Kingdoms.
==Trivia==
* In Michael Kandel's translation of "The Witcher" (for the A Book of Polish Monsters anthology), Vizimir was known both as Cuthbond and Glothur.
* He was most likely inspired after Casimir II the Just, who was the High Duke of Poland and Duke of Masovia in the 12th century.
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