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Jadwiga (Polish pronunciation: [jadˈvʲiɡa]; 1373/4 – 17 July 1399) was monarch of Poland from 1384 to her death. Her official title was 'king' rather than 'queen', reflecting that she was a sovereign in her own right and not merely a royal consort. She was a member of the Capetian House of Anjou, the daughter of King Louis I of Hungary and Elizabeth of Bosnia.[2] She is known in Polish as ...
Jadwiga was born in 1373 to Elizabeth of Bosnia and Louis I, King of Hungary and Poland. Raised at the royal residences in Buda and Visegrad, Jadwiga was well-educated, fluent in five languages, and embarrassingly pious. When Louis's death in 1382 led to a succession crisis, Elizabeth sent young Jadwiga to Krakow to end it.
Jadwiga (Polish: [jaˈdvʲiɡa]; 1373 or 1374 – 17 July 1399), also known as Hedwig (Hungarian: Hedvig), was the first woman to be crowned as monarch of the Kingdom of Poland. She reigned from 16 October 1384 until her death. She was the youngest daughter of Louis the Great, King of Hungary and Poland, and his wife, Elizabeth of Bosnia. Jadwiga was a member of the Capetian House of Anjou ...
Agreement was reached on condition that Jogaila and Lithuania convert to Roman Catholicism. In March 1386, Jogaila was baptised, married Jadwiga, and was crowned as Ladislas II King of Poland. He continued to rule Lithuania. The Roman Catholic Church was endowed with Lihuanian lands and The process of Lithuanian conversion to Christianity began.
Because it received Christianity from Czech Kingdom(Duchy of Bohemia at that time) which had Latin liturgy. Christianization was probably part of deal in which Czech King made his daughter marry Polish prince and basically allied with Poland against Wendish tribes(I guess similar to Jadwiga and Jogailla few centuries later).
She was the daughter of Louis Hungarian, King of Poland and Hungary). Jadwiga married a Lithuania Grand Duke, Jogaila (Władysław Jagiełło) on 18 February 1386. After her death during childbirth on 17 July 1399, her husband became the King Ladislaus II of Poland. [1]
On June 8, 1979, Jadwiga’s sarcophagus was visited by Pope John Paul II, the first Polish Pope in the history of the Catholic Church. John Paul led a prayer at her sarcophagus in honor of the deceased queen and was also responsible for the process which led to her canonization in 1997.
