She was the daughter of Gediminas, Grand Duke of Lithuania.

She was a daughter of Gediminas of Lithuania and Jewna.

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.

Gediminas was slain and his son Algirdas suppressed the monasteries.

During this period, the prime minister was Gediminas Vagnorius.

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 ' right to use Latin rex, which the papacy had been claiming the right to grant from the 13th century, was controversial in some Catholic sources.

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 ".

Various theories have claimed that Gediminas was either his predecessor Grand Duke Vytenis ' son, his brother, his cousin, or his hostler.

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.

Another version introduced in the Lithuanian Chronicles, which also appeared long after Gediminas ' death, proclaimed that Gediminas was Vytenis ' son.

Baranauskas disagrees, believing Skalmantas was Butvydas ' brother rather than his father, and that Vytenis and Gediminas were therefore cousins.

A compact was then signed at Vilnius, in the name of the whole Christian World, between Gediminas and the delegates, confirming the promised privileges.

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.

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.

Here Gediminas triumphal progress was irresistible ; but the various stages of it are impossible to follow, the sources of its history being few and conflicting, and the date of every salient event exceedingly doubtful.

Gediminas Tower named after the founder of Vilnius, although it was built considerably later.

All these facts assert that Gediminas most likely remained entirely faithful to his native Lithuanian religion, and that his feigned interest in Catholicism was simply a ruse designed to gain allies against the Teutonic Order.

Most modern historians and reference works say Gediminas ' wife was Jewna, dismissing Vida and Olga as fictitious, since no sources other than this chronicle mention the other two wives.

When in 1323 Gediminas also gained control of Kiev and installed there as prince his brother Fedor, there was no question of discontinuing the principality's tribute to the Khan.

When Grand Duke Gediminas finally settled in Vilnius, Senieji Trakai was inherited by his son the Duke Kęstutis.

Gediminas Vagnorius ( born June 10, 1957 ) is a Lithuanian politician and signatory of the Act of the Re-Establishment of the State of Lithuania.

Narimantas or Narymunt ( baptized Gleb, born just before 1300 ( according top Wasilewski 1992 ) – February 2, 1348 ) was the second eldest son of Gediminas, Grand Duke of Lithuania.

From about 23 km ( 14 mi ) south west of Kiev, Gediminas resoundingly defeated Stanislav of Kiev and his allies in the Battle on the Irpin River.

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.

On the small Irpin River about south west of Kiev, Gediminas resoundingly defeated Stanislav and his allies.

Gediminas had just undertaken an unsuccessful attempt at Christianization of Lithuania.

The details of the agreement are not known ; however, it is known that Gediminas released all Polish prisoners, numbering some 25, 000.

Born in Kowal, Casimir the Great first married Anna, or Aldona Ona, the daughter of the Prince Gediminas of Lithuania.

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.

The first known written record of Vilnius as the Lithuanian capital is known from Gediminas ' letters in 1323.

According to legend, Gediminas dreamt of an iron wolf howling on a hilltop and consulted a pagan priest for its interpretation.

Gediminas expanded the Grand Duchy through warfare along with strategic alliances and marriages.

* Lithuania: In the Letters of Gediminas, Vilnius is named as the capital city.

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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.

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By now she was sure she was going to have a baby, deciding it would be born in India or Burma that November.

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Whether the only price of our redemption were not the death of Christ on the cross, with the rest of his sufferings and obediences, in the time of his life here, after he was born of the Virgin Mary??

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And she replied, `` I was born in America, but I was conceived in Vienna ''.

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