Casimir III the Great () ( 30 April 1310 – 5 November 1370 ) who reigned in 1333 – 1370, was the last King of Poland from the Piast dynasty, the son of King Władysław I the Elbow-high and Duchess Hedwig of Kalisz.

The Kingdom was restored under Władysław I the Elbow-high, strengthened and expanded by his son Casimir III the Great.

The Commonwealth, assertive militarily under King Stephen Báthory, suffered from dynastic distractions during the reigns of the Vasa kings Sigismund III and Władysław IV.

* Hedwig of Kalisz ( 1266 – 1339 ), wife of the King Władysław I the Elbow-high and mother of Casimir III of Poland and Elisabeth of Poland.

In 1206 Henry and his cousin Duke Władysław III Spindleshanks of Greater Poland agreed to swap the Silesian Lubusz Land against the Kalisz region, which met with fierce protest by Władysław's III nephew Władysław Odonic.

The next year Henry's ally Władysław III Spindleshanks succeeded Leszek I as High Duke ; however as he was still contested by his nephew in Greater Poland, he made Henry his governor at Kraków, whereby the Silesian duke once again became entangled into the dispute over the Seniorate Province.

Her actions promoted the reign of her husband: Upon the death of the Polish High Duke Władysław III Spindleshanks in 1231, Henry also became Duke of Greater Poland and the next year prevailed as High Duke at Kraków.

He thereby was the first of the Silesian Piast descendants of Władysław II the Exile to gain the rule over Silesia and the Seniorate Province according to the 1138 Testament of Bolesław III Krzywousty.

This union was contracted in connection with the Ascanian efforts to support the Junior Dukes in opposition to King Conrad III of Germany, who supported the deposed High Duke Władysław II as legal ruler of Poland.

There were descendants of superseded daughters of Casimir III of Poland ( d. 1370 ), such as his youngest daughter Anna, Countess of Celje ( d. 1425 without surviving Issue ), and her daughter Anna of Celje ( 1380 – 1416 ) whom Władysław II Jagiełło married next.

Ladislaus III ( also known as Władysław III or Vladislaus III ) may refer to:

* Władysław III Spindleshanks ( 1165 – 1231 ), Duke of Poland

* Władysław III of Poland ( disambiguation )

pl: Władysław III

On 10 November 1444, Murad II defeated the Hungarian, Polish and Wallachian armies under Władysław III of Poland ( also King of Hungary ) and János Hunyadi at the Battle of Varna, which was the final battle of the Crusade of Varna.

* 1444: Ottoman Empire under Sultan Murad II defeats the Polish and Hungarian armies under Władysław III of Poland and János Hunyadi at the Battle of Varna.

The region came under the control of Władysław I the Elbow-High in 1314, and thus became part of the reunited Poland of which Władyslaw was crowned king in 1320.

Poland had suffered under a plethora of economic calamities, but there were also signs of progress and stabilization ( Władysław Grabski's economically competent government lasted for almost two years ).

Hussite theologians dispute in the presence of King Władysław II Jagiełło of Poland

Her paternal grandmother Elisabeth of Kujavia was the daughter of King Władysław I the Elbow-high, who had reunited Poland in 1320.

As child monarch of Poland, Jadwiga had at least one relative in Poland ( all her immediate family having remained in Hungary ): her mother's childless uncle, Władysław the White ( d. 1388 ), Prince of Gniewkowo.

* 1386 – Władysław II Jagiełło ( Jogaila ) is crowned King of Poland.

After the 1410 Battle of Grunwald, Bishop Heinrich Vogelsang of Warmia surrendered to King Władysław II Jagiełło of Poland, and later with Bishop Henry of Sambia gave homage to the Polish king at the Polish camp during the siege of Marienburg Castle ( Malbork ).

* Władysław Vasa of Poland ( 1595 – 1648 ), Polish Prince, self-proclaimed Grand Duke of Moscow, and future King of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth

* King Władysław IV Vasa of Poland forbids antisemitic books and printings.

** Władysław II Jagiello succeeds his father, Algirdas, as Grand Duke of Lithuania.

Władysław II was the founder of the Jagiellon dynasty that bears his name, while pagan Jogaila was an heir to the already established house of Gediminids in Grand Duchy of Lithuania ; the royal dynasty ruled both states until 1572, and became one of the most influential dynasties in the late medieval and early modern Central and Eastern Europe.

This bloody conflict was eventually brought to a temporary halt in 1392 with the Treaty of Ostrów, by which Władysław handed over the government of Lithuania to his cousin in exchange for peace: Vytautas was to rule Lithuania as the Grand Duke ( magnus dux ) until his death, under the overlordship of the Supreme Duke ( dux supremus ) in the person of the Polish monarch.

The Union of Vilnius and Radom therefore earned Władysław a measure of support in Lithuania.

Władysław promised to repay Vytautas for his support by restoring Samogitia to Lithuania in any future peace treaty.

Władysław supported his brother Švitrigaila as grand duke of Lithuania, but when Švitrigaila, with the support of the Teutonic Order and dissatisfied Rus ' nobles, rebelled against Polish overlordship in Lithuania, the Poles, under the leadership of Bishop Zbigniew Oleśnicki of Kraków, occupied Podolia, which Władysław had awarded to Lithuania in 1411, and Volhynia.

Władysław finally died in 1434, leaving Poland to his elder son, Władysław III, and Lithuania to his younger, Casimir, both still minors at the time.

Władysław II Jagiełło, Grand Duke of Lithuania and King of Poland, accepted his supremacy and agreed to pay tribute in turn for a grant of Rus ' territory.

* In English: " Władysław IV, by grace of God the King of Poland, Grand Duke of Lithuania, Ruthenia, Prussia, Masovia, Samogitia, Livonia, and hereditary King of the Swedes, Goths and Vandals, elected Grand Duke of Muscovy.

The alliance of the Kingdom of Poland and the Grand Duchy of Lithuania, led respectively by King Jogaila ( Władysław Jagiełło ) and Grand Duke Vytautas ( Witold ), decisively defeated the Teutonic Knights, led by Grand Master Ulrich von Jungingen.

Bohemia obtained a temporary respite when, in 1422, Prince Sigismund Korybut of Lithuania ( nephew of King Władysław II Jagiełło of Poland ) briefly became ruler of the country.

Władysław Starewicz was born in Moscow, Russia to Polish parents ( father Aleksander Starewicz from Surviliškis near Kėdainiai and mother Antonina Legęcka from Kaunas, both from " neighbourhood nobility ", in hiding after the failed Insurrection of 1863 against the Tsarist Russian domination ), and had lived in Lithuania which at that time was a part of the Russian Empire.

In 1407, John II separated the area that is modern-day Pszczyna from his duchy as wittum for his new wife Helena of Lithuania ( Helena Korybutówna, niece of Władysław Jagiełło, the king of Poland ) ( along with the amts of Bieruń and Mikołów ).

The Polish nobility was unhappy that Jogaila, their new king, now Władysław II Jagiełło, spent too much time on the affairs of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania.

Anna married Władysław, King of Poland and Lithuania, in 1402 after the death of Jadwiga of Poland, while Barbara married King Sigismund of Hungary ( years later also Holy Roman Emperor ) in 1405 after the death of Mary of Hungary.

Supporter of King of Poland and Grand Duke of Lithuania Sigismund III Vasa, he often stood in opposition to his son and successor, Władysław IV Waza on the matters of religion.