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Jogaila was duly baptised at the Wawel Cathedral in Kraków on 15 February 1386 and from then on formally used the name Władysław or Latin versions of it.
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Jogaila, a Grand Duke since 1377, was himself still a pagan.
Mindaugas was the only King of Lithuania ; while most of the Lithuanian Grand Dukes from Jogaila onward also reigned as Kings of Poland, the titles remained separate.
St. Casimir was the grandson of Jogaila and was the second son of king of Poland and Grand Duke of Lithuania Casimir IV and Queen Elisabeth Habsburg of Hungary.
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.
Jogaila was the last pagan ruler of medieval Lithuania.
Grand Duchy of Lithuania to which Jogaila succeeded in 1377 was a political entity composed of two leading but very different nationalities and two political systems: ethnic Lithuania in the north-west and the vast Ruthenian territories of former Kievan Rus ', comprising lands of modern Ukraine, Belarus, and parts of western Russia.
At the start of his reign, Jogaila was preoccupied with unrest in the Lithuanian Rus ' lands.
However, at that moment Muscovy was awfully weakened by tremendous losses suffered during the famous battle and thus in the same year Jogaila was free to begin a struggle for supremacy with Kęstutis.
The marriage went ahead on 4 March 1386, two weeks after the baptism ceremonies, and Jogaila was crowned King Władysław by archbishop Bodzanta.
The marriage of pagan Algirdas to Orthodox Uliana of Tver, unlawful from the viewpoint of the church, was nevertheless approved by Theognostus ; it gave birth to Jogaila.
The town was in the center of a conflict between Grand Duke Jogaila ( later to become King of Poland ) with his uncle Kęstutis.
A golden double cross with equal bars, known as the Cross of Jagiellons, was used by Grand Duke of Lithuania and King of Poland Jogaila since his conversion to Christianity in 1386, as a personal insignia and was introduced in the Coat of Arms of Lithuania.
Until the end of the century, the town was contested between Jogaila, Vytautas, Švitrigaila, and Yury of Smolensk.
When the House of Piast disappeared and the Lithuanian House of Jagiellon was elected in the figure of the High Duke Jogaila, this monarch took the name of Władysław II, in honour of the previous Polish Kings with this traditional name.
In 1429 Lutsk was the meeting place selected for a conference of monarchs hosted by Jogaila and Sophia of Halshany to deal with the Tartar threat.
The emblem was handed down through the generations, from Algirdas to his son, Grand Duke Jogaila, then to Jogaila's cousin Grand Duke Vytautas and others.
The double cross was introduced by Jogaila, who adopted it after his baptism as Ladislaus and marriage with Hungarian princess and Queen of Poland Hedvig Angevin in 1386.
At the time Jogaila was negotiating with the Teutonic Order.
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.
Vytautas was a cousin and childhood friend of Jogaila ( Władysław II Jagiełło ), who became King of Poland in 1386.
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Twelve-year-old Jadwiga and 26-year-old Jogaila — who had earlier been baptized Władysław — wed in March 1386 at Kraków.
After the deaths of Jogaila and Vytautas, the Lithuanian nobility at times attempted to break the union between Poland and Lithuania, independently selecting Grand Dukes from the Jagiellon dynasty.
Jogaila failed to support Mamai, lingering in the vicinity of the battlefield, which led to Mamai's army significant defeat at the hands of Prince Dmitri in the Battle of Kulikovo.
On 11 July, Jogaila decided against crossing the river at such a strong defensible position.
Jogaila and Wawel
On February 12, Jogaila and his relatives arrived to Kraków and were baptized by Bodzanta, Bishop of Gniezno, three days later in the Wawel Cathedral.
Jogaila and Cathedral
On February 17, 1387, Jogaila decreed that he would build Vilnius Cathedral and petition the pope to establish the Diocese of Vilnius, which he awarded with land possessions in Tauragnai, Labanoras, Molėtai.
Jogaila and Kraków
File: 002Planty. JPG | Jadwiga and Jagiełło ( Jogaila ) Monument in Kraków Planty Park.
Located on the ancient road from Kraków to Vilnius and on the edge of the Kozienice Forest, the town became one of favorite retreats of King Jogaila, who founded a church there in 1394.
At the age of 11, he ( together with his brother Jogaila ) was converted in Kraków into Roman Catholicism, changing his Christian name from Lev to Bolesław.
Monument of Jadwiga and Jogaila in Kraków
A Polish delegation, sent to Lithuania by Jogaila and led by Zbigniew Oleśnicki, Bishop of Kraków, pronounced Sigismund as the Grand Duke of Lithuania for life on September 30, 1432.
Sigismund was most likely born in Novhorod-Siverskyi to Dymitr Korybut, son of Algirdas, Grand Duke of Lithuania, and Anastasia, daughter of Grand Prince Oleg of Ryazan, and raised in the court of his uncle Jogaila ( Władysław Jagiełło ) in Kraków since 1404.
Jogaila and on
The Teutonic Knights failed to subdue pagan Lithuania, which officially converted to ( Catholic ) Christianity in 1386 on the marriage of Grand Duke Jogaila to the 11-year-old Queen Jadwiga of Poland.
After Polish-Lithuanian victory in the Battle of Grunwald, Teutonic knights had to pay huge sum of silver to Poland as reparation and again, through diplomacy of his friend Stibor, Sigismund could borrow all this silver from King Jogaila of Poland on good conditions.
The symbol of the charging knight on horseback passed down through the generations: from Algirdas to his son, Grand Duke Jogaila ( ruled 1377-1392 ), then to Grand Duke Vytautas ruled 1392-1430 ) and to others.
Based on the terms of the accord, Jogaila agreed not to intervene during attacks by the Teutonic Knights against Kęstutis or his children.
Kęstutis became the Grand Duke while Jogaila was taken prisoner on his way back to Vilnius.
* Švitrigaila ( Grand Duke ) and Jogaila ( Supreme Duke ) for a brief period, until Švitrigaila declared war on Poland
The Columns of Gediminas are displayed on the left sleeve of Jogaila in one of his best-known portraits, painted by Jan Matejko, although Jogaila's personal insignia was a double cross.
In a strict sense, the Union of Krewo or Act of Krėva ( also Union of Krevo, Act of Kreva ) was a set of prenuptial promises made in the Kreva Castle on 14 August 1385 by Jogaila, Grand Duke of Lithuania, in exchange for marriage to the underage reigning Queen Jadwiga of Poland.
Upon return of the Lithuanian delegation, Jogaila confirmed in writing all the promises, made on his behalf in Poland.
Jogaila married Jadwiga on February 18 and was crowned jure uxoris as King of Poland on March 4.
The union was signed in three separate acts: one by Jogaila ( the original of which did not survive ), another by Vytautas and the Lithuanian nobles ( in Vilnius on January 18, 1401 ), and the third by the Polish Royal Council ( in Radom on March 11, 1401 ).
Jogaila confirmed both acts on January 3, 1433.
The town itself was first mentioned the following year in a document issued by Kaributas, Prince of Severian Novgorod, who on December 16 assured his tributary fidelity to his cousin, King Jogaila and Jadwiga of Poland.
In 1382, Grand Duke of Lithuania Kęstutis was imprisoned here during the Lithuanian Civil War ( 1381 – 1384 ) and subsequently murdered on the order by his nephew Jogaila.
By December 1409, Jogaila and Vytautas had agreed on a common strategy: their armies would unite into a single massive force and march together towards Marienburg ( Malbork ), capital of the Teutonic Knights.
Jogaila raised a fresh army and dealt another defeat to the Knights in the Battle of Koronowo on 10 October 1410.
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