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Apr 19, 2024 · Historians such as Lukowski and Zawadzki (2019, p.4) and Reddaway et al. (1978, p.16) are more sure of the existence of Piast’s ancestral successors to power. Next in line as rulers of the Polans were Ziemowit, Lestek and Ziemomysł. Hence, Ziemomysł would have been Piast’s great-grandson. Reddaway et al. (1978, p.16) state that:
May 5, 2024 · In 1331, September 27 in Kuyavia near Radziejów fought the Battle of Płowce against a group of Teutonic knights. Other groups of enemies withdrew to the north. After numerous casualties the armies were stalemated, though Władysław's forces conquered the field, captured some prisoners and stopped the expansion of the Teutonic Order in the ...
- Jadwiga of Kalisz
- circa March 03, 1260
- "Władysław the Short"
- Kraków, Kraków, Małopolskie, Poland
Apr 16, 2024 · Władysław I (born 1260/61, Poland—died March 2, 1333, Poland) was the king of Poland (1320–33), a ruler who succeeded in bringing together a series of Polish principalities into a kingdom and laying the foundations for a strong Polish nation. Władysław was the son of Casimir I of Kujawy, the ruler of one of the numerous small ...
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
Kuyavia-Pomerania is a major node in the Polish transportation system. Railway lines from the South and East pass through Bydgoszcz to connect to the major ports on the Baltic Sea . In addition to this, Bydgoszcz is home to the rolling stock manufacturer PESA SA , Poland's largest and most modern producer of railway and tram products.
May 2, 2024 · Louis I, also Louis the Great ( Hungarian: Nagy Lajos; Croatian: Ludovik Veliki; Slovak: Ľudovít Veľký) or Louis the Hungarian ( Polish: Ludwik Węgierski; 5 March 1326 – 10 September 1382), was King of Hungary and Croatia from 1342 and King of Poland from 1370. He was the first child of Charles I of Hungary and his wife, Elizabeth of ...
- 1342–1382
- Elizabeth of Poland
May 4, 2024 · Her maternal grandfather was Polish Casimir of Kuyavia, son of Ziemomysl of Kuyavia and Salome of Eastern Pomerania. Louis had three known daughters, all born of his second wife: Catherine (1370 – 1378) Mary, his successor in Hungary, who married Sigismund, at that time Margrave of Brandenburg (1371 – 1395) , who became King of Hungary ...
May 5, 2024 · Jadwiga of Anjou (1373/4 – July 17, 1399) was Queen of Poland from 1384 to her death. She was a member of the Capetian House of Anjou and the daughter of King Louis I of Hungary and Elisabeth of Bosnia. She is known in Polish as Jadwiga, in English and German as Hedwig, in Lithuanian as Jadvyga, in Hungarian as Hedvig, and in Latin as Hedvigis.
