Jagiellonian dynasty

Jagiellonian redirects here. Jagiellonian may also refer form: Jagielloczyk; in Lithuanian it is called Jogailaiiai,
to the Jagiellonian University.
in Belarusian (Jagajaviy), in Hungarian
The Jagiellonian dynasty was a royal dynasty, founded Jagell, and in Czech Jagellonci, as well as Jagello or Jagellon in Latin.

2 Pre-dynasty background
The rule of Piasts, the earlier Polish ruling house (c. 962
1370) had ended with the death of King Casimir III the
Great. Gediminids, the immediate predecessors of the
rst Jagiellonian, were rulers of medieval Lithuania with
the title of Grand Duke. Their realm, the Grand Duchy
of Lithuania, was chiey inhabited by Lithuanians and
Ruthenians.
Jogaila, the eponymous rst ruler of the Jagiellonin dynasty, started as the Grand Duke of Lithuania. As a result
of the Union of Krewo he then converted to Christianity
and married the 11-year-old Hedwig of Poland (Jadwiga
At the end of the 15th century, the Jagiellonians reigned over vast in Polish) (daughter of King Louis I of Hungary from the
territories stretching from the Baltic to the Black to the Adriatic
Angevins Dynasty). Thereby he became King of Poland
Sea.
and founded the dynasty. Angevin rulers were the second
by Jogaila, the Grand Duke of Lithuania, who in 1386 was and Jagiellonian third dynasty of Polish Kings.
baptized as Wadysaw, married Queen (strictly King)[1]
Jadwiga of Poland, and was crowned King of Poland
as Wadysaw II Jagieo. The dynasty reigned in sev3 Jagiellonian Kings of Poland
eral Central European countries between the 14th and
16th centuries. Members of the dynasty were Kings of
Poland (13861572), Grand Dukes of Lithuania (1377
1392 and 14401572), Kings of Hungary (14401444
and 14901526), and Kings of Bohemia (14711526).
The personal union between the Kingdom of Poland and
the Grand Duchy of Lithuania (converted in 1569 with
the Treaty of Lublin into the PolishLithuanian Commonwealth) is the reason for the common appellation
"PolandLithuania" in discussions about the area from
the Late Middle Ages onward. One Jagiellonian briey Jagiellon Family
ruled both Poland and Hungary (144044), and two others ruled both Bohemia and Hungary (14901526) and
After Sigismund II Augustus, the dynasty underwent furthen continued in the dista line as the Eastern branch of
ther changes. Sigismund IIs heirs were his sisters Anna
the House of Habsburg.
Jagiellon and Catherine Jagiellon. The latter had married
Duke John of Finland, who thereby from 1569 became
King John III of Sweden, and they had a son, Sigismund
1 Name
III Vasa; as a result, the Polish branch of the Jagiellonians merged with the House of Vasa, which ruled Poland
The name comes from Jogaila (Jagieo), the rst Grand from 1587 until 1668. During the interval, among othDuke of Lithuania to become King of Poland. In Polish, ers, Stephen Bthory, the husband of the childless Anna,
the dynasty is known as Jagiellonowie and the patronymic reigned.
1

7 SEE ALSO

Jagiellonian Kings of Bohemia,

Hungary and Croatia

Family tree of the House of Jagiellon

At one point, the Jagiellonians established dynastic control also over the kingdoms of Bohemia and Hungary Notes:
(from 1490 onwards), with Vladislaus Jagiello whom several history books call Vladisla(u)s II. After being elected [1] kings are marked in gold, queens in pale gold.
and crowned King of Hungary, Vladislaus moved his
court to Hungary from where he ruled both countries and
v
his children were born and raised. By Louis sudden death
t
in Battle of Mohcs in 1526, that royal line was extinguished in male line.
e

Other members of the Jagiellonian dynasty

Legacy
The Jagiellonian University in Krakw
Jagiellonian Library of the Jagiellonian University in
Krakw
Globus Jagellonicus, is by some considered to be the
oldest existing globe to show the Americas
Jagiellonian tapestries is a collection of tapestries
Jagiellonia Biaystok, a football club, based in
Biaystok
Jagiellonia Tuszyn, a former football club based in
Tuszyn
Jagieo Oak, most noted of the Biaowiea Forest
oaks
Jagiellonia, a fraternal society founded in 1910 in
Vienna

See also
History of Poland during the Jagiellon dynasty
List of Polish rulers
List of Czech rulers
List of Hungarian rulers
List of Lithuanian rulers
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Grand Duchy of Lithuania
Jogaila, 13771381

Jogaila, 13821392
Vytautas
13921430
vitrigaila, 14301432
Sigismund Kstutaitis, 14321440

Casimir IV
14401492
Alexander, 14921506
Sigismund I
15061548
Sigismund II Augustus
15481572

Sigismund
14191437
Albert II, 14371439

Ladislaus
14401457
George
14581471
Vladislaus II
14711516
Louis II, 15161526
Ferdinand I
15261564
Maximilian II, 15641576
House of Jagiellon
Other Gediminids
Capetian House of Anjou

Kingdom of Poland
Louis I, 13701382
Hedwig, 13821399
Vladislaus II (Jogaila)
13861433
Vladislaus III, 14341444
Casimir IV
14471492
John I Albert, 14921501
Alexander, 15011506
Sigismund I
15061548
Sigismund II Augustus
15481572

House of Luxembourg
House of Habsburg
Other

8 Bibliography
Magorzata Duczmal, Jagiellonowie. Leksykon biograczny, Krakw 1996.
Stanisaw Grzybowski, Dzieje Polski i Litwy (1506
1648), Krakw 2000. ISBN 83-85719-48-2
Pawe Jasienica, Polska Jagiellonw (1963), ISBN
978-83-7469-522-0

Kingdom of Hungary
Louis I, 13421382
Mary, 13821387
Sigismund
13871437

Wojciech Dominiak, Boena Czwojdrak, Beata

Jankowiak-Konik, Jagiellonowie

Albert II, 14371439

Krzysztof Baczkowski, Polska i jej ssiedzi za Jagiellonw

Matthias Corvinus
14581490
Matthias Corvinus
14581490
Ladislaus V, 14451457
Vladislaus I, 14401444
Vladislaus II
14901516
Louis II, 15161526
Ferdinand I
15261564
Maximilian II, 15641576

Marek Derwich, Monarchia Jagiellonw (1399

1586)

9 References
[1] Jadwiga was crowned King of Poland Hedvig Rex
Poloni, not Hedvig Regina Poloni. Polish law had no
provision for a female ruler (queen regnant), but did not
specify that the King had to be a male. The masculine
gender of her title was also meant to emphasize that she
was monarch in her own right, not a queen consort.

10 External links
Kingdom of Bohemia
Wenceslaus IV
13781419

Rulers of Poland
Jagiellonian Dynasty

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Pages and Forums on Lithuanian history
Jagiellonian Observatory

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