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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.
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Ladislaus II Jagiellon (1456–1516), King of Bohemia and Hungary. Vladislaus was born on 1 March 1456, the oldest son of King Casimir IV of Poland and Grand Duke of Lithuania, then the head of the ruling Jagiellon dynasty of Poland, and Elizabeth of Austria, daughter of Albert, King of Germany, Hungary and Bohemia.
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May 1, 2022 · Jana (1548), Legnica, Dolnośląskie, Poland. Genealogy for Elisabeth Jagiellon, Princess of Poland (1482 - 1517) family tree on Geni, with over 255 million profiles of ancestors and living relatives.
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Elizabeth of Austria (; ; ; c. 1436 – 30 August 1505) was Queen of Poland and Grand Duchess of Lithuania as the wife of King Casimir IV of Poland. Orphaned at an early age, she spent her childhood in the court of Holy Roman Emperor Frederick III. As one of the three surviving grandchildren of Emperor Sigismund, she had a strong claim to the ...
- 1436
- Female
- 30 Aug 1505
- Elisabeth of Austria
views 1,809,723 updated. JAGIELLON DYNASTY ( POLAND - LITHUANIA) 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.
When Elzbieta Jagiellon was born on 9 May 1465, in Krakow, Małopolska, Poland, her father, Casimir Andrew Jagiellon IV, Grand Duke of Lithuania and , King of Poland, was 37 and her mother, Elizabeth of Austria, was 29.
Catherine Jagiellon, wife of John III of Sweden, was 11 years older than her husband, having remained unmarried into her thirties. She bore her children at ages 38, 40 and 42. Jagiello himself was born to a father already in his fifties or sixties. In generational terms, this was a most extraordinary dynasty.