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Casimir III the Great (Polish: Kazimierz III Wielki; 30 April 1310 – 5 November 1370) reigned as the King of Poland from 1333 to 1370. He also later became King of Ruthenia in 1340, and fought to retain the title in the Galicia-Volhynia Wars. He was the last Polish king from the Piast dynasty.
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Casimir III may refer to: King Casimir III of Poland (1310–1370), last King of Poland from the Piast dynasty. Casimir III, Duke of Pomerania (1348–1372), oldest son of Barnim III, Duke of Pomerania-Stettin.
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King Casimir III of Poland (1310-1370) made major contributions to the growth of the Polish state as it is known today. Poland's growth under his peaceful reign was memorialized in a popular saying to the effect that he inherited a Poland built of wood, but left the world a Poland built of stone. An oblong strip of land wedged among competing kingd...
Casimir (or Kazimierz) was born on April 30, 1310, in the town of Kowal, in Kujawy-Pomerania province in the central part of present-day Poland. He was the son of King Wladyslav I Lokietek, or Wladyslaw the Elbow-High. Despite his diminutive stature, Wladyslaw (or Ladislaus) had involved the Polish kingdom in a host of military adventures. One in p...
In the late 1330s, Casimir declared war on the small states of Halych and Vladimir (now in western Ukraine), part of the Masovia (Polish: Mazowsze) region. The ruler of these states, Boleslaw-Iurii, who had no children, named Casimir as his heir, but he was then poisoned to death by a group of other noblemen from within his realm. The result was th...
Perhaps the most visible remnant of Casimir's realm today is the University of Krakow, for which the king issued a Charter of Royal Foundation on May 12, 1364. The charter specified the provision of 11 chairs or professorships: one in liberal arts, two in medicine, three in canon (church) law, and five in Roman law. Their income was guaranteed by a...
Biskupski, M.B., The History of Poland, Greenwood, 2000. Davies, Norman, God's Playground: A History of Poland, rev. ed., Columbia UniversityPress, 2005. Encyclopedia Britannica, 11th ed., Cambridge UniversityPress, 1911. Lukowski, Jerzy, and Hubert Zawadzki, A Concise History of Poland, Cambridge UniversityPress, 2001.
“Kazimierz III,” Foundation for Medieval Genealogy: Poland, http://fmg.ac/Projects/MedLands/POLAND.htm#KazimierzIIIdied1370(February 3, 2008). Rosenthal, Herman, “Casimir III: the Great,” Jewish Encyclopedia.com, http://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/view.jsp?artid=221&letter=C (February 3, 2008).
Casimir III, called the Great (Polish: Kazimierz Wielki; 1310 – 1370), King of Poland (1333-70), was the son of King Władysław I the Elbow-high and Jadwiga of Gniezno and Greater Poland.
Casimir III the Great (Polish: Kazimierz III Wielki) (April 30, 1310 – November 5, 1370) was the King of Poland from 1333 until 1370. He was the son of Wladyslaw I the Short. He was the last king of the Piast dynasty, his daughter Jadwiga having married the Lithuanian duke Wladyslaw Jagiello.
Casimir III, 1310–70, king of Poland (1333–70), son of Ladislaus I and last of the Piast dynasty. Called Casimir the Great, he brought comparative peace to Poland.
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Casimir III, known as Casimir the Great Polish Kazimierz Weilki, (born April 30, 1310, Kujavia, Pol.—died Nov. 5, 1370), King of Poland (1333–70). He was the son of Władysław I, who revived the Polish kingship, and he continued his father’s quest to make Poland a power in central Europe.
