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Algirdas (born c. 1296—died 1377) was the grand duke of Lithuania from 1345 to 1377, who made Lithuania one of the largest European states of his day. His son Jogaila became Władysław II Jagiełło, king of united Poland and Lithuania.
Before his death in 1341, Gediminas divided his domain, leaving his youngest son Jaunutis in possession of the capital, Vilnius. With the aid of his brother, Kęstutis, Algirdas drove out the incompetent Jaunutis and declared himself Grand Duke in 1345. He devoted the next thirty-two years to the development and expansion of the Grand Duchy of ...
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2014 sculpture by Sergey Bondarenko. Algirdas was the son of Grand Duke Gediminas of Lithuania and his second wife Olga, the daughter of Prince Vsevolod of Smolensk. He was born in 1296 in Kernavė. In 1318 Algirdas married Maria, the daughter of Prince Yaroslav Vasilkovich of Vitebsk, who had no sons and received his new son-in-law in Vitebsk.
As it was said before, the youngest brother of Algirdas, Jaunutis, became the heir of his father, probably because his mother was a Polish princess. However, he did not manage well the loyalty of his older brothers and soon he was placed aside when Algirdas became the Grand Duke of Lithuania, uniting the duchy at least.
- Mary Plantagenet
May 23, 2022 · With the aid of his brother Kęstutis, Algirdas drove out the incapable Jaunutis and declared himself a Grand Prince in 1345. Thirty-two years of his reign (1345-1377) were devoted to the development and expansion of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania. Algirdas has managed to make it one of the greatest states in Europe and the largest in the continent.
- "Algirdas-"Olgos džiaugsmas""
- Lithuania
- February 11, 1296
Algirdas or Olgierd (Олгерд), b ca 1296, d May 1377. Prince of Krevo and Vitsebsk (1341–5) and grand duke of Lithuania (1345–77), son of Gediminas.With the assistance of his brother Kęstutis, the prince of Samogitia, Algirdas unified the Lithuanian territories and waged war to enlarge his realm, making it one of the largest European states of his day.
House of Golitsyn. The House of Gediminid or simply the Gediminids [a] were a dynasty of monarchs in the Grand Duchy of Lithuania that reigned from the 14th to the 16th century. [1] A cadet branch of this family, known as the Jagiellonian dynasty, reigned also in the Kingdom of Poland, Kingdom of Hungary and Kingdom of Bohemia. [2]
