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Jadwiga with her mother and sisters, as depicted on Saint Simeon's casket in Zadar. Jadwiga was born in Buda, the capital of the Kingdom of Hungary. [1] She was the third and youngest daughter of Louis I, King of Hungary and Poland, and his second wife, Elizabeth of Bosnia.
Jadwiga of Kalisz (Polish: Jadwiga kaliska (Bolesławówna); c. 1266 – 10 December 1339) [1] was a Queen of Poland by marriage to Ladislaus the Short. She was the mother of the last Piast King of Poland, Casimir III. She was the second of three daughters born to Bolesław the Pious and Saint Yolanda of Hungary. [2]
The Monument to Jadwiga and Jagiełło is a Gothic monument in Kraków, in the northern part of Planty at Basztowa Street, commemorating the 500th anniversary of the Polish-Lithuanian union. Founded by Tomasz Oskar Sosnowski, it depicts Queen Jadwiga of Poland and Władysław Jagiełło at the moment of their nuptials.
Coronation as Queen Ceased to be Consort Death Spouse; Oda of Meissen: Eckard I, Margrave of Meissen (Ekkehardiner) ca. 996 3 February 1018 18 April 1025 in Gniezno Cathedral: aft. 1025 Bolesław I: Jadwiga of Poland: Louis of Hungary (House of Anjou) 1373 or 1374 17 July 1399 16 October 1384 in Wawel Cathedral Krakow aft. 1399 Władysław I ...
Eventually, after long negotiations with Jadwiga's mother Elizabeth of Bosnia, who was regent of Hungary, Jadwiga arrived in Kraków and was crowned as King of Poland (not as Queen of Poland, to emphasize her rights to the throne) on 15 October 1384. The new monarch still needed a suitable husband.
Jadwiga of Poland 1373–1384–1399: Elizabeth of Pomerania 1347–1393: Louis I, Duke of Orléans 1372–1407: Sigismund, Holy Roman Emperor 1368–1437:
Jogaila, later Ladislaus 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 Hedwig of Poland and Jogaila, the Grand Duke of Lithuania, the last pagan state in Europe
In the same year, the Capetian House of Anjou became the ruling house with Louis I as king of both Poland and Hungary. His daughter, Jadwiga, later married Jogaila, the pagan Grand Duke of Lithuania, who in 1386 was baptized and crowned as Władysław II Jagiełło, thus creating the Jagiellonian dynasty and a personal union between Poland and ...