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Poland is a country in the eastern region of Central Europe. [8] Its official name is Republic of Poland. It is on the east of Germany (along Oder and Lusatian Neisse ). The Czech Republic and Slovakia are to the south, Ukraine and Belarus to the east, and the Baltic Sea, Lithuania, and the Russian exclave Kaliningrad to the north.
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.
t. e. The history of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth (1648–1764) covers a period in the history of Poland and the Grand Duchy of Lithuania, from the time their joint state became the theater of wars and invasions fought on a great scale in the middle of the 17th century, to the time just before the election of Stanisław August ...
Jadwiga of Kalisz. Signature. 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 .
Władysław I Łokietek. Mother. Jadwiga of Kalisz. Kunigunde of Poland (Kunegunda) ( c. 1298 – 9 April 1331) was a daughter of Władysław I the Elbow-high and his wife Jadwiga of Greater Poland. [citation needed] Her siblings included, Casimir III of Poland and Elisabeth, Queen of Hungary. She was a member of the House of Piast .
Oct 9, 2022 · Jadwiga was a member of the Capetian House of Anjou, but she had more close forebears among the Polish Piasts than among the Angevins. In 1997, she was canonized by the Catholic Church. In the article are the top ten facts about Jadwiga of Poland. 1. She had a planned marriage. William of Austria painting photo by Antoni Boys – Wikimedia commons.
