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In 1454, he married Elisabeth of Austria, daughter of the late King of the Romans Albert II of Habsburg by his late wife Elisabeth of Bohemia. Her distant relative Frederick of Austria became Holy Roman Emperor and reigned as Frederick III until after Casimir's own death.
Jagiellon dynasty, family of monarchs of Poland-Lithuania, Bohemia, and Hungary that became one of the most powerful in east central Europe in the 15th and 16th centuries. The dynasty was founded by Jogaila, the grand duke of Lithuania, who married Queen Jadwiga of Poland in 1386, converted to.
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In 1454, he married Elisabeth of Austria, daughter of King Albert II of Germany and Elizabeth of Luxembourg, a descendant of King Casimir III of Poland. Her distant relative was Frederick III, Holy Roman Emperor .
The Jagiellonians: A List. Drawing firm boundaries around a dynasty, deciding who is ‘in’ and who is ‘out’, is a slippery business. The project will examine where the Jagiellonians themselves understood these boundaries to lie, from the 14 th to the 16 th centuries.
Jan 5, 2022 · Elżbieta Jagiellonka (ur. 13 maja 1472 w Krakowie, zm. pomiędzy 19 maja 1480, a 20 maja 1481 na Litwie) – królewna polska i księżniczka litewska. Była czwartą córką i dziesiątym dzieckiem ze związku króla polskiego i wielkiego księcia litewskiego Kazimierza Jagiellończyka i Elżbiety.
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The Jagiellon dynasty was a dynasty that ruled over much of Eastern Europe between the late 1300s and late 1500s. Its originator was Wladyslaw II Jagiello , the Grand Duke of Lithuania beginning...
JAGIELLON DYNASTY (POLAND-LITHUANIA), the dynasty that ruled the Grand Duchy of Lithuania, Poland, and at times Hungary and Bohemia, from the fourteenth to the sixteenth century. Its progenitor was Gediminas, grand duke of Lithuania (ruled 1316 – 1341), the founder of the Lithuanian-Ruthenian state and father of Grand Duke Algirdas (ruled ...
