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  1. His own reign in Poland started in 1399, upon the death of Queen Jadwiga, lasted a further thirty-five years, and laid the foundation for the centuries-long Polish–Lithuanian union. He was a member of the Jagiellonian dynasty in Poland that bears his name and was previously also known as the Gediminid dynasty in the Grand Duchy of Lithuania.

  2. A crowned King of Poland, Jadwiga fascinates not only researchers, but also many ordinary people who are attracted by her personality and spirituality. Dozens, if not hundreds of schools, institutions and streets bear her name. We can also see Jadwiga on the pedestals of monuments, not only in Poland, but also abroad, e.g. in her homeland of ...

  3. Jadwiga (1373-1399) was the daughter of Louis the Great of Poland and Hungary. Louis had no male heir; he had three daughters, the youngest of whom was Jadwiga. Catherine, the eldest, died in 1378 and Mary was crowned king of Hungary. Jadwiga became Queen of Poland because the Polish nobles refused to have a ruler who lived outside the country.

  4. Dec 10, 2019 · Jadwiga's ability to convert cities via culture bomb applies to all culture bombs Poland initiates - not just those from forts and Encampments. Heritage Organisation - Effect A (Tourism from Great Works of this type is doubled) on relics.

  5. www.brooklynmuseum.org › heritage_floor › jadwigaBrooklyn Museum: Jadwiga

    Jadwiga, Queen of Poland, n.d. From The Gallery of Polish Kings and Princes, 1890–92. The Brooklyn Museum is an art museum located in the New York City borough of Brooklyn. At 560,000 square feet, the museum is New York City's second largest in physical size and holds an art collection with roughly 1.5 million works.

  6. Jadwiga, Poland's Great Queen (New York: 1931); Monica M. Gardner, Queen Jadwiga of Poland (London: 1934). The most recent study is the posthumous work by Oscar Halecki, Jadwiga of Anjou and the Rise of East Central Europe, edited with a Foreword by Thaddeus V. Gromada, (Highland Lakes, New Jersey: 1991); for an

  7. JADWIGA OF POLAND, ST. Duchess of Silesia; b. Andechs, Bavaria, Germany, c. 1174; d. convent of Trzebnica, Wroclaw Province, Poland, Oct. 15, 1243. The daughter of Berthold IV, Count of Andechs, she was educated at the monastery of Kitzingen and (c. 1186) married Henry I, who in 1202 became duke of Silesia.

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