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Jogaila, later Władysław II Jagiełło (c. 1352/1362 – 1 June 1434) was Grand Duke of Lithuania (1377–1434), King of Poland (1386–1399) alongside his wife Jadwiga, and then sole King of Poland. In 1385 the Union of Krewo was signed between Queen Jadwiga of Poland and Jogaila, the Grand Duke of Lithuania, the last pagan state in Europe.
The name (other variations used in English include: Jagiellonians, Jagiellos, Jogailos) comes from Jogaila, the first Polish king of that dynasty.In Polish, the dynasty is known as Jagiellonowie (singular: Jagiellon, adjective, used of dynasty members, also patronimical form: Jagiellończyk); in Lithuanian it is called Jogailaičiai (sing.:
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Władysław II Jagiełło was the grand duke of Lithuania (as Jogaila, 1377–1401) and king of Poland (1386–1434), who joined two states that became the leading power of eastern Europe. He was the founder of Poland’s Jagiellon dynasty. Jogaila (Jagiełło in Polish) was one of the 12 sons of Algirdas. Bohemia Summary.
Casimir IV Jagiellon, younger son of Jogaila, elected Grand Duke of Lithuania; King Ladislaus Jagiellon (d. 1444), King of Poland, invited to the Hungarian throne and crowned (17 July), but the throne is contested by supporters of the infant Ladislaus ‘the Posthumous’ (d. 1457), son of Albert V Habsburg, who is also crowned King of Hungary ...
Jan 12, 2022 · Jehu was a captain in Israel’s army, who God anointed as king over Israel. He reigned for twenty-eight years and was rewarded for his obedience to God. Though many of the kings of Israel and Judah were wicked and led God’s people astray, King Jehu was used by God to draw His people back to God. Occasionally, a king would remove all other ...
Sep 28, 2022 · In this Bible story, from chapter 6 of the book of Judges, Gideon is called upon to save the people of Israel by leading them against the Midianites. In a common theme of apostasy, the people of Israel had done "what was evil in the sight of the Lord, and the Lord gave them into the hand of Midian." The Midianites were capturing any crops ...
Jagiellon dynasty. The monarchs that ruled over Poland-Lithuania, Bohemia, and Hungary in the 15th and 16th centuries were members of the Jagiellon family. They took their name from Jagiello, the grand duke of Lithuania, who became king of Poland in 1386 with the name Wladyslaw II Jagiello. His son Wladyslaw III Warnenczyk succeeded him as king ...
