Jagiellon dynasty facts for kids
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| Country: |  Kingdom of Poland Grand Duchy of Lithuania.svg){kind=small} Kingdom of Hungary Kingdom of Bohemia |
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| Parent House: | Gediminids | ||
| Titles: | King of Poland King of Hungary King of Bohemia King of Croatia King of Dalmatia King of Rama King of Serbia King of Bulgaria King of Slavonia Grand Duke of Lithuania Duke of Silesia Duke of Ruthenia Duke of Luxembourg |
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| Founder: | Władysław II Jagiełło | ||
| Final Ruler: | Anna Jagiellon of Poland | ||
| Founding Year: | 1386 | ||
| Dissolution: | 1596 | ||
The Jagiellonian dynasty was a royal dynasty, founded by Jogaila the Grand Duke of Lithuaniah married Queen regnant Jadwiga of Poland, and was crowned King of Poland. The dynasty reigned in several Central European countries between the 14th and 16th centuries.
The personal union between the Kingdom of Poland and the Grand Duchy of Lithuania (converted in 1569 with the Treaty of Lublin into the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth) is the reason for the common appellation "Poland–Lithuania" in discussions about the area from the Late Middle Ages onward. One Jagiellonian briefly ruled both Poland and Hungary (1440–44), and two others ruled both Bohemia and Hungary (1490–1526).
The Polish "Golden Age", during the 16th century, is most often identified with the rise of the culture of Polish Renaissance. The cultural flowering had its material base in the prosperity of the elites.
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Jagiellon rulers
Jagiellons were hereditary rulers of Poland and Lithuania.
The Jagiellon rulers of Poland–Lithuania (with dates of ruling in brackets) were:
- Ladislaus (Jogaila) (in Lithuania 1377–1401; in Poland 1386–1434). (also known as Władysław II Jagiełło)
- Ladislaus III (1434–44)
- Casimir (1447–92)
- John Albert (1492–1501)
- Alexander (1501–05)
- Sigismund (1506–48)
- Sigismund Augustus (1548–72) (also known as Sigismund II)
Legacy
- The Jagiellonian University in Kraków
- Jagiellonian Library of the Jagiellonian University in Kraków
- Globus Jagellonicus, is by some considered to be the oldest existing globe to show the Americas
- Jagiellonian tapestries is a collection of tapestries
- Jagiellonia Białystok, a football club, based in Białystok
- Jagiellonia Tuszyn, a former football club based in Tuszyn
- Jagiełło Oak, most noted of the Białowieża Forest oaks
- Jagiellonia, a fraternal society founded in 1910 in Vienna
Images for kids
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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.
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Baptism of Władysław III of Poland at Wawel in 1425
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The Crusade of Varna was a series of events in 1443–44 between the crusaders and the Ottoman Empire, culminating in a devastating Christian loss at the Battle of Varna on 10 November 1444.
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Thirteen Years' War—Battle of Chojnice in 1454
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Malbork Castle during Thirteen Years' War (1460)
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Sigismund I the Old (1467 –1548), King of Poland and Grand Duke of Lithuania
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Chicken War or Hen War, a 1537 anti-royalist and anti-absolutist rokosz (rebellion) by the Polish nobility.
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Death of Barbara Radziwiłł Painting by Józef Simmler
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Wawel Hill, the castle and the cathedral
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Louis II of Hungary (1506–1526), King of Hungary and Bohemia
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Jagiellon family
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See also
In Spanish: Dinastía Jagellón para niños
