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Algirdas ( Belarusian: Альгерд, romanized : Alhierd; Ukrainian: Ольгерд, Ольґерд, romanized : Olherd, Olgerd, Polish: Olgierd; c. 1296 – May 1377) was Grand Duke of Lithuania from 1345 to 1377. [1] With the help of his brother Kęstutis (who defended the western border of the Duchy) he created an empire stretching from ...
Gediminas (born c. 1275—died 1341) was the grand duke of Lithuania, the strongest contemporary ruler of eastern Europe. Gediminas succeeded his brother Vytenis (Witen) in 1316 and started the Gediminian dynasty, which included his grandson Jagiełło, later Władysław II of Poland.
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The Lithuanian–Muscovite War, known in the Rogozh Chronicle as Litovschina ( Russian: Литовщина ), encompasses three raids by Algirdas, Grand Duke of Lithuania, to the Principality of Moscow in 1368, 1370, and 1372. Algirdas organized the raids against Dmitry Donskoy in support of the Principality of Tver, chief rival of Moscow.
- 1368-1372
- Treaty of LyubutskLithuanian retreat
- Moscow, Lyubutsk
The Genealogical Tree of the Lithuanian Monarchs (stemming from Palemonas) of Alexander Hilarius Polubinski, Grand Marshall of the Grand Duchy Lithuania, 1675. Vilnius Cathedral, built in 1407, served as a venue for the ceremonies of the Grand Dukes of Lithuania. Vytautas ' majestic seal of 1407, where he is seen wearing Gediminas' Cap.
The Grand Duchy of Lithuania was a sovereign state in northeastern Europe that existed from the 13th century, [5] succeeding the Kingdom of Lithuania, to the late 18th century, [6] when the territory was suppressed during the 1795 partitions of Poland–Lithuania. The state was founded by Lithuanians, who were at the time a polytheistic nation ...
2014 sculpture by Sergey Bondarenko. Algirdas was the son of Grand Duke Gediminas of Lithuania and his second wife Olga, the daughter of Prince Vsevolod of Smolensk. He was born in 1296 in Kernavė. In 1318 Algirdas married Maria, the daughter of Prince Yaroslav Vasilkovich of Vitebsk, who had no sons and received his new son-in-law in Vitebsk.
Algirdas or Olgierd (Олгерд), b ca 1296, d May 1377. Prince of Krevo and Vitsebsk (1341–5) and grand duke of Lithuania (1345–77), son of Gediminas.With the assistance of his brother Kęstutis, the prince of Samogitia, Algirdas unified the Lithuanian territories and waged war to enlarge his realm, making it one of the largest European states of his day.
