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Gediminas was slain and his son Algirdas suppressed the monasteries.
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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.
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 ".
Gediminas was born in about 1275.
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 and son
Theodor, brother of Gediminas, and Algimantas, son of Mindaugas from the Olshanski family, were installed in Kiev.
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.
Upon request of Paweł Karol Sanguszko, on November 22 1744, King Augustus III of Poland changed the name of the town to Lubartów ( in honor of Lubart-Liubartas, the son of Lithuanian Prince Gediminas ; Sanguszko believed that Liubartas was the founder of his family ).
In 1321 George son of Lev, the last of the line, died in a battle with the forces of Gediminas, Grand Duke of Lithuania and the castle was seized by the Lithuanian forces.
Lubart, son of Gediminas, erected the Lubart's Castle as part of his fortification undertaking.
The probable progenitor of this family was Prince Danylo Dmytrovych ( or Danylo Wasilijewicz ), who received Ostroh from Liubartas, King of Galicia-Volhynia and son of Grand Duke of Lithuania Gediminas.
Kęstutis was the son of the Grand Duke Gediminas.
Before his death in 1341 Gediminas divided his domains, leaving the youngest son Jaunutis in possession of the capital Vilnius, with a nominal priority.
There are many theories why Gediminas chose Jaunutis, a middle son, as his successor.
Others claimed that Jaunutis was the eldest son of Gediminas ' second wife ; thus the tradition that Gediminas was married twice: to a pagan and Orthodox duchess.
* Gediminas ( superior ) and an unknown duke of Trakai, presumably Gediminas's son.
Theodor, brother of Gediminas, and Algimantas, son of Mindaugas from the Olshanski family, were installed in Kiev.
He was the youngest son of Gediminas, Grand Duke of Lithuania.
Boleslaw-Yuri was a son of Trojden I of Masovia from the Piast dynasty, a cousin of Władysław I, and nephew of Gediminas ' son-in-law Wacław of Płock.
For example, Mindaugas granted Black Ruthenia with center in Navahrudak to his son Vaišvilkas ; Gediminas sent his brother Fiodor to Kiev.
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.
Gediminas and Algirdas
In 1974 historian Jerzy Ochmański noted that Zadonshchina, a poem from the end of the 14th century, contains a line in which two sons of Algirdas name their ancestors: " We are two brothers – sons of Algirdas, and grandsons of Gediminas, and great-grandsons of Skalmantas.
News of the death of Gediminas forced Algirdas to quit the campaign before Simeon could arrange a military response.
Algirdas Brazauskas resigned from his position as party chairman on 19 May 2007, when Gediminas Kirkilas was elected.
Algirdas was one of the seven sons of the Grand Duke Gediminas.
Modern historians argue, that " For Gediminas and Algirdas, retention of paganism provided a useful diplomatic tool and weapon ... that allowed them to use promises of conversion as a means of preserving their power and independence ".
1300 – after 1366 ) was the Grand Duke of Lithuania from his father Gediminas ' death in 1341 until he was deposed by his elder brothers Algirdas and Kęstutis in 1345.
Some suggested that he was an acceptable compromise between pagan ( Algirdas and Kęstutis ) and Orthodox ( Narimantas, Karijotas, Liubartas ) sons of Gediminas.
Following the death of Gediminas, when Lithuania was divided into principalities, Lida became the capital of one of them, the seat of Algirdas.
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