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The Brodnici (, ) were a tribe of disputed origin.
Some authors have identified them with the "Bordinians" mentioned by Byzantine chronicler Niketas Choniates as a branch of "Tauroscythians",cf. "Taurida" and "Scythians" a term apparently applying to the Rus people in order to distinguish them from the Cumans/Polovtsians and from Vlachs.I.O. Knyazky, "Rus and the Steppe", Князький И.О. Русь и степь. – Moscow: Российский научный фонд, 1996., Ch. 5, Polovtsians
In 1222, the Hungarian king Andrew II gave the Burzenland to the Teutonic Knights, delimiting it by the land of the Brodnici. A Papal bull of Pope Honorius III confirmed the charter in the same year; however, in the copy approved by the Holy See, "Brodnicorum" was replaced by "Blacorum" (i.e., "Vlachs" in Latin). While some historians believe that this shows that the terms were equivalent, others claim that this was just an error. The latter base their claim on the fact that the two terms were used together in several Hungarian documents, very unusual if referring to the same population.
In 1238, King Béla IV of Hungary presented himself as: king of "...Ruthenorum, Cumanorum, Brodnicorum...".Hurmuzaki-Densușianu, Documente, I, 1, pp. 259–262; Doc. C. Trans., I, pp. 345–346Alexandru Gonța, Românii și Hoarda de Aur, 1241–1502, Editura Demiurg, 2010, p.25
The Novgorod First Chronicle says that in 1223 the Brodnici took part in the Battle of Kalka on the side of Mongols ("Tatars"). Novgorod Chronicle, years 1219-1232
When speaking about Brodniks, the Chronicle mentions voivode Ploskynya (the name of the voivode is sometimes rendered as Ploscânea in Romanian historiography) who deceived knyaz Mstislav Romanovich and delivered him to "Tatars". Some researchers conclude that Ploskynya was the Brodnik commander. According to some researchers, the Chronicle should be interpreted as "And there Brodniks were with Tatars, and their Voivod Ploskynya ...". However other disagree, considering that the source should be translated as "And there Brodniks were with Tatars, and Voivod Ploskynya, ...". After this date, they disappeared from Kievan Rus sources.
In August 1227, Pope Gregory IX wrote a letter to the bishop of Esztergom instructing him to convert to Christianity "in et Bordinia terra illis vicina".
A November 11, 1250 letter of King Béla IV of Hungary to Pope Innocent IV says that Tatars imposed tribute onto the countries neighboring with his kingdom: "que ex parte Orientis cum regno nostro conterminantur, sicut Ruscia, Cumania, Brodnici, Bulgaria".
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