Vyachko of Koknese, also Vetseke of Kokenhusen (Latin: Rex Vesceka de Kukenois, Latvian: Vetseke, Russian: Вячко) was the ruler of the Principality of Koknese in present-day Latvia, a vassal of Polotsk, who unsuccessfully tried to establish himself as a local ruler first in Latvia and then in Estonia, and fought against the expansionism of the Livonian Knights at the turn of the 13th century.
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