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- Gediminas (c. 1275-1341) One of the most fondly remembered Grand Dukes of Lithuania, Gediminas is credited with making his state a player to be reckoned with in Europe - and with founding the nation's capital, Vilnius.
- Mindaugas (c. 1203-1263) Mindaugas is the starting point of Lithuania's history, the first and only King of Lithuania. Having united conflicting Lithuanian warlords under his rule - some by strategic marriages, others by strategic assassinations - Mindaugas wrote to the Pope of Rome to be baptised as Roman Catholic in 1251 and, two years later, to be crowned the king.
- Vytautas (c. 1350-1430) and Jogaila (c. 1352-1434) The love-hate relationship between the two cousins (and grandsons of Gediminas) Vytautas and Jogaila (or Jagiello) mirrors in many ways the tensions between the brotherly nations of Lithuania and Poland which joined into a personal union under Jogaila, the first ruler to be both the Grand Duke of Lithuania and the King of Poland.
- Martynas Mažvydas (1520-1563) The Lithuanian vernacular was late to join the ranks of languages of the learned and it was not until 1547 that the first Lithuanian book came off the printing press.
Jul 3, 2022 · KENNA ( [1350]-27 Apr 1368). Her marriage was proposed by her future husband's maternal grandfather, Kazimierz III King of Poland, to strengthen the ties between Lithuania and Poland [111]. She was baptised as JOHANNA on her marriage. m (1360 [112]%29 as his first wife, KASIMIR von Pommern, son of BOGISLAW V Duke of Pomerania in Hinterpommern ...
- Vilnius, Lithuania
- Casimir IV, Duke of Slupsk
- Lithuania
- "Joana"
Feb 27, 2017 · Jack Sharkey was a Lithuanian-American boxer famous for his title as heavy weight boxing champion in 1932. One of his most famous matches was against champion Jack Dempsey in 1927, which Sharkey surprisingly lost. Sharkey was born in New York in 1902 to Lithuanian parents and spoke Lithuanian at home. He died in 1994 at the age of 91.
This is a list of Lithuanians, both people of Lithuanian descent and people with the birthplace or citizenship of Lithuania.. Notable Lithuanians (from top, left to right): Lithuanian king Mindaugas; Grand Dukes - Gediminas; Kęstutis; Vytautas; Jogaila; Grand Duchess Barbora Radvilaitė; Grand Hetman of Lithuania Mikolaj Krzysztof Radziwiłł; architect Laurynas Gucevičius; historian Simonas ...
- Gediminas (c. 1275-1341) One of the most fondly remembered Grand Dukes of Lithuania, Gediminas is credited with making his state a player to be reckoned with in Europe – and with founding the nation’s capital, Vilnius.
- Mindaugas (c. 1203-1263) Mindaugas is the starting point of Lithuania’s history, the first and only King of Lithuania. Having united conflicting Lithuanian warlords under his rule – some by strategic marriages, others by strategic assassinations – Mindaugas wrote to the Pope of Rome to be baptised as Roman Catholic in 1251 and, two years later, to be crowned the king.
- Vytautas (c. 1350-1430) and Jogaila (c. 1352-1434) The love-hate relationship between the two cousins (and grandsons of Gediminas) Vytautas and Jogaila (or Jagiello) mirrors in many ways the tensions between the brotherly nations of Lithuania and Poland which joined into a personal union under Jogaila, the first ruler to be both the Grand Duke of Lithuania and the King of Poland.
- Martynas Mažvydas (1520-1563) The Lithuanian vernacular was late to join the ranks of languages of the learned and it was not until 1547 that the first Lithuanian book came off the printing press.
This was because in Lithuania, unlike in the majority of other European monarchies, the Grand Duke was a sovereign monarch who was accountable to no one, thus de facto king. The full title of Grand Duke of Lithuania was: In Lithuanian: Lietuvos didysis kunigaikštis. In Latin: Magnus Dux Lithuaniae. In English: Grand Duke of the Lithuania
Lubart's Castle in Ukraine, built by the son of Gediminas' Liubartas in the mid-14th century, is famous for the Congress of Lutsk which took place in 1429 Grand Duchy of Lithuania under the rule of Vytautas the Great (1392 – 1430) Lithuania was in a good position to conquer the western and the southern parts of the former Kievan Rus'.
