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Ladislaus of Hungary. House. Piast. Father. Władysław I the Elbow-high. Mother. Jadwiga of Greater Poland. Elizabeth of Poland ( Hungarian: Erzsébet, Polish: Elżbieta; 1305 – 29 December 1380) was Queen of Hungary by marriage to Charles I of Hungary, and regent of Poland from 1370 to 1376 during the reign of her son Louis I .
Demographics. Poland has a population of approximately 38.2 million as of 2021, and is the ninth-most populous country in Europe, as well as the fifth-most populous member state of the European Union. [281] It has a population density of 122 inhabitants per square kilometre (320 inhabitants/sq mi). [282]
Jadwiga of Melsztyn [ pl] Elizabeth Granowska or Elisabeth Pilecki ( Polish: Elżbieta Granowska z Pileckich / Elżbieta z Pilczy; c. 1372 – 12 May 1420 in Kraków) was Queen consort of Poland (1417–1420) as the third wife of Władysław II Jagiełło (Jogaila), Grand Duke of Lithuania and King of Poland (reigning from 1386 to 1434).
After the German conquest of Poland, a Polish government-in-exile was formed under the protection of France and Britain. The President of the Republic and the government-in-exile were recognised by the United Kingdom and, later, by the United States until 6 July 1945, when the Western Allies accepted the Communist-led government backed by ...
In the same year, the Capetian House of Anjou became the ruling house with Louis I as king of both Poland and Hungary. His daughter, Jadwiga, later married Jogaila, the pagan Grand Duke of Lithuania, who in 1386 was baptized and crowned as Władysław II Jagiełło, thus creating the Jagiellonian dynasty and a personal union between Poland and ...
Mar 31, 2024 · Birthdate: circa February 15, 1224. Death: circa February 15, 1281 (49-65) Immediate Family: Daughter of Władysław Odonic Piast and Hedvig Piast. Wife of Władysław, Duke of Opole. Mother of Mieszko I, Duke of Cieszyn; duke Casimir II. of Beuthen-Kosel; Duke Bolko I of Opole; Przemysław raciborski and Konstancja wodzisławska.
Mieszko III (c. 1122/25 – 13 March 1202), sometimes called the Old, was Duke of Greater Poland from 1138 and High Duke of Poland, with interruptions, from 1173 until his death. He was the fourth and second surviving son of Duke Bolesław III Wrymouth of Poland, by his second wife Salomea , daughter of the German count Henry of Berg ...
