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Gediminas and Grand
She was the daughter of Gediminas, Grand Duke of Lithuania.
Category: Commander's Grand Crosses of the Order of the Lithuanian Grand Duke Gediminas
In 1316, Grand Duke Gediminas, the first of the leaders responsible for Lithuania's great expansion that was to follow, with the aid of colonists from Germany, began restoration of the land.
The city was first mentioned in written sources in 1323, when the Letters of Grand Duke Gediminas were sent to German cities inviting German members of the Jewish community to settle in the capital city, as well as to Pope John XXII.
Gediminas expanded the Grand Duchy through warfare along with strategic alliances and marriages.
Grand Duke of Lithuania Gediminas on stamp.
Because written sources of the era are scarce, Gediminas ' ancestry, early life, and assumption of the title of Grand Duke in ca.
Various theories have claimed that Gediminas was either his predecessor Grand Duke Vytenis ' son, his brother, his cousin, or his hostler.
Gediminas became the Grand Duke in 1316 at the age of 40 and ruled for 25 years.
In October 1323, representatives of the archbishop of Riga, the bishop of Dorpat, the king of Denmark, the Dominican and Franciscan orders, and the Grand Master of the Teutonic Order assembled at Vilnius, when Gediminas confirmed his promises and undertook to be baptized as soon as the papal legates arrived.
Nevertheless, disregarding the censures of the church, the Order resumed the war with Gediminas by murdering one of his delegates sent to welcome the Grand Master for his arrival to Riga in 1325.
* Grand Cross of the Order of the Lithuanian Grand Duke Gediminas ( Lithuania, 24 July 2001 )
Category: Grand Crosses of the Order of the Lithuanian Grand Duke Gediminas
* Grand Cross of the Order of the Lithuanian Grand Duke Gediminas ( Lithuania, 4 April 1994 )
*: Commander of the Order of the Lithuanian Grand Duke Gediminas
Category: Commander's Crosses of the Order of the Lithuanian Grand Duke Gediminas
* Grand Officer of the Order of the Lithuanian Grand Duke Gediminas ( Lithuania, 24 November 1995 )
Category: Officer's Crosses of the Order of the Lithuanian Grand Duke Gediminas
* Grand Duchy of Lithuania: House of Mindaugas, House of Gediminas ( Ruthenian Hedyminovichy, ) later a branch of Gediminids-the Jagiellons

Gediminas and Duchy
According to a legend after a successful hunting party, Grand Duke Gediminas discovered a beautiful lake-surrounded place not far from Kernavė, then capital of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania, and decided to build a castle in the location.
The first fortifications were built of wood by Duke of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania, Gediminas.
Even in the face of Crusaders, by the time of Grand Duke Gediminas, the Grand Duchy of Lithuania expanded its influence until it formed the political centre of a vast and prosperous " pagan Empire ".
Those that bore the Vytis, also known as the Pahonia, were armies from the Grand Duchy of Lithuania, while those who bore the Columns of Gediminas were from noble families of Lithuania.

Gediminas and Lithuania
Gediminas had just undertaken an unsuccessful attempt at Christianization of Lithuania.
Born in Kowal, Casimir the Great first married Anna, or Aldona Ona, the daughter of the Prince Gediminas of Lithuania.
She was a daughter of Gediminas of Lithuania and Jewna.
The brothers Vytenis and Gediminas, the founders of the Gediminid dynasty, united various groups into one Lithuania.
Even so, he led the ruling Social Democratic Party of Lithuania for one more year, until May 19, 2007, when he passed the reins to Gediminas Kirkilas.
* Lithuania: In the Letters of Gediminas, Vilnius is named as the capital city.
** Gediminas, Duke of Lithuania
Chronicles — written long after Gediminas ' death by the Teutonic Knights, a long-standing enemy of Lithuania — claimed that Gediminas was a hostler to Vytenis ; according to these chronicles, Gediminas killed his master and assumed the throne.
The systematic raiding of Lithuania by the knights under the pretext of converting it had long since united all the Lithuanian tribes, but Gediminas aimed at establishing a dynasty which should make Lithuania not merely secure but powerful, and for this purpose he entered into direct diplomatic negotiations with the Holy See as well.
At the same time Gediminas privately informed the papal legates at Riga through his ambassadors that his difficult position compelled him to postpone his steadfast resolve of being baptized, and the legates showed their confidence in him by forbidding the neighboring states to war against Lithuania for the next four years, besides ratifying the treaty made between Gediminas and the archbishop of Riga.
Despite Gediminas ' chief goal to save Lithuania from destruction at the hands of the Germans, he still died as a pagan reigning over semi-pagan lands.
** Gediminas, Duke of Lithuania ( d. 1341 )
Gediminas ' Tower () is the only remaining part of the Upper Castle in Vilnius, Lithuania.

Gediminas and east
While on his guard against his northern foes, Gediminas from 1316 to 1340 was aggrandizing himself at the expense of the numerous Slavonic principalities in the south and east, whose incessant conflicts with each other wrought the ruin of them all.

Gediminas and by
*" Gediminas, by the grace of God, of the Lithuanians and many Rus ' ians, king "
So for instance he was called rex sive dux (" King or Duke ") by one source ; Pope John XXII, in a letter to the King of France, refers to Gediminas as " the one who calls himself rex ".
Gediminas disentangled himself from his difficulties by repudiating his former promises ; by refusing to receive the papal legates who arrived at Riga in September 1323, and by dismissing the Franciscans from his territories.
An alternative view of these events was proposed by an American historian Stephen Christopher Rowell, where he believes that Gediminas never intended to become a Christian himself, since that would have offended the staunchly pagan inhabitants of Žemaitija and Aukštaitija.
Other historians support this claim by arguing this would explain Gediminas ' otherwise mysterious designation of a middle son, Jaunutis, as his succession would be understandable if Jaunutis were the first-born son of Gediminas and a second wife.
When Grand Duke Gediminas finally settled in Vilnius, Senieji Trakai was inherited by his son the Duke Kęstutis.
The variegate Lithuanian mythology of this time ( legend about emigration of Palemon from Rome to Lithuania, legend about the founding of the capital of Lithuania Vilnius by Duke Gediminas, and other pieces ) had been presented in a spirit of high lucid and virtuous patriotism.
Gediminas Bielskis defeated Mantas Kuslin by KO
Gediminas Baguzis defeated Zydrunas Juodis by Decision
Daumantas Rimkus defeated Gediminas Sadaunykas by Submission ( Armbar )
Gediminas Surmaitis defeated Darius Mikuzis by Submission ( Armbar )
Gediminas Šurmaitis defeated Egidijus Kuliešius by Submisison ( Armbar )

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