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Aug 21, 2022 · Jadwiga married Jogaila on January 11, 1386. Their relationship would develop into one of mutual affection and respect that would last until her tragic death in 1399 from childbed fever. Though other parts of her life story have been heavily mythologized, these events, for certain, were true.
Jul 2, 2023 · On January 11, 1386, the 12-year-old Jadwiga finally married 35-year-old Jogaila of Lithuania (who was baptized with the new Polish name of Władysław). They united Poland and Lithuania into the...
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The Lithuanian-Polish monarch Jogaila (c. 1351-1434), known in Polish as Wladyslaw II Jagiello, was a key figure in the history of both Lithuania and Poland during the medieval period. Geopolitically speaking, the most significant aspect of Jogaila's 57-year reign as Lithuania's monarch was that it inaugurated a union between Lithuania and Poland, ...
Jogaila's early life has remained elusive to historians. He is generally thought to have been born in the early 1350s in the Lithuanian capital of Vilnius, with Norman Davies, author of God's Playground: A History of Poland, suggesting a date of 1351 (some Polish historians have argued in favor of a later date, which would help to explain Jogaila's...
The agreement (whose text has never surfaced but has been pieced together by historians) made Jogaila King of Poland and specified that Lithuania and Poland would henceforth operate as separate states under a common crown. The Machiavellian instability of political life at the time made both parties feel that the arrangement might well be temporary...
According to Davies, the Bishop of Pomerania, the Teutonic leader, sent Jogaila a pair of swords with a note stating that it was “for your assistance.” Jogaila replied, “We accept the swords you send us, and in the name of Christ, before whom all stiff-necked pride must bow, we do battle.” At the battle's end, the technically sophisticated German f...
Biskupski, M.B., The History of Poland, Greenwood, 2000. Davies, Norman, God's Playground: A History of Poland, rev. ed., Columbia UniversityPress, 2005. Lukowski, Jerzy, and Hubert Zawadzki, A Concise History of Poland, Cambridge UniversityPress, 2001. Rowell, S.C., Lithuania Ascending: A Pagan Empire Within East-Central Europe, 1295-1345, Cambrid...
“Jogaila (1350-1434),” Lithuanian Quarterly Journal of Arts and Sciences (Winter 1987), http://www.lituanus.org/1987/87_4_04.htm(February 5, 2008).
In 1386, he converted to Christianity, was baptized as Władysław, married the young Queen Jadwiga of Poland, and was crowned Polish king as Władysław Jagiełło. [2] . His reign in Poland lasted a further forty-eight years and laid the foundation for the centuries-long Polish-Lithuanian union.
WŁADYSŁAW II JAGIEŁŁO (POLAND) (Lithuanian: Jogaila; c. 1351 – 1434), grand duke of Lithuania (1377 – 1401) and king of Poland (1386 – 1434); son of Grand Duke Algirdas of Lithuania (d. 1375) and Yuliana, princess of Tver; and founder of the Jagiellon dynasty in Poland.
Jul 31, 2022 · She was meant to depart to Austria, and to William, between 1378 and 1380. The early death of Jadwiga’s eldest sister Catherine in May 1378 changed Jadwiga’s trajectory. Jadwiga’s other sister Mary was quickly promised the throne of Hungary. The Hungarian nobles swore fealty to the little girl and her fiance, Sigismund of Luxembourg in 1379.
To shore up allies and safeguard Poland's future, Jadwiga agreed to marry Jogaila, the Grand Duke of Lithuania—provided he (and his subjects) converted from paganism to Catholicism. Thus, in 1386 Jadwiga wed the newly-baptized Jogaila, who promptly took the name Wladyslaw II to make his rule palatable to the patriotic Poles.
