Władysław himself was hoping for a war, which could yield some more significant territorial gains, and even managed to gather a sizeable army, with navy elements, near the disputed territories.

Next, Władysław attempted to create an order of chivalry, similar to the Order of the Golden Fleece, but this plan was scuttled down as well, with the szlachta and the magnetes seeing this as an attempt to create a royal, loyalist elite, and traditionally opposing anything that could lead to the reduction of their extensive power.

The war, Władysław hoped, would also solve the problem of unrest among Cossacks, a militant group living in Ukraine, near the Ottoman border, who could find worth in such a campaign, and turn their attention to fighting for the Commonwealth, instead of against it.

Władysław was criticized for being a spendthrift ; he lived lavishly, spending more than his royal court treasury could afford.

Władysław ensured that the officer corps was significantly large so that the army could be expanded ; introduced foreign ( Western ) infantry to the Polish Army, with its pikes and early firearms, and supported the expansion of the artillery.

Some historians see Władysław as a dreamer who could not stick to one policy, and upon running into first difficulties, ditched it and looked for another opportunity.

Władysław Gomułka's temporary political success of 1956 could not mask the economic crisis into which the People's Republic of Poland was drifting.

Before False Dmitri II could gain the throne, the Polish commander, voivode, and magnate Stanisław Żółkiewski, put forward a rival candidate: Sigismund's son, Władysław.

Thanks to this Władysław could finally obtain his own independent Duchy, located in Southern Greater Poland ( the Obra River ); however, the prince only assumed the government there as a guardian of his minor nephew Władysław Odonic ( son of Odon, born ca.

Władysław could succeeded his father without barriers in Kraków, Greater and Lesser Poland, thanks to the support of the powerful voivode Mikołaj Gryfita.

At this point, Władysław was probably the immediate oldest member of the Piast dynasty after Mieszko I, and therefore, he certainly expect that after the imminent death of the venerable Duke of Racibórz he could receive the title of High Duke and the Duchy of Kraków.

In 1217 an unexpected treaty was concluded between the previous antagonists Leszek I the White and Władysław Spindleshanks, under which if one or both rulers died without male issue, the other could inherit all his domains.

Władysław II escaped to Bohemia, while Agnes and her children remained in Kraków, where for some time they could maintain the resistance against the Junior Dukes from the Wawel castle.

He knew many secrets of the royal court, and could influence Władysław to be friendly or not towards various newcomers, envoys and other visitors to the court.

Because he had once been elected Tsar of Russia and could realistically lay claim to the Russian throne, King Władysław wanted to continue the war or, because the Polish-Swedish Treaty of Altmark would soon be expiring, ally with the Russians to strike against Sweden.

Duke Władysław I kept control of Masovia and its capital at Plock ; also, could retained control of the most important cities i. e. Wrocław, Kraków and Sandomierz.

History especially was changed to minimize the role of the events that could undermine the position of the communist government ; for example, the Polish-Soviet War of 1919-1921 was completely omitted from some history books, and the members of the Polish Government in Exile, like Władysław Sikorski, were portrayed as traitors.

While Władysław opted for a quick response against him ( the voivode was blinded and muted ), forcing Włostowic to go to Kiev, the High Duke's final decision on his confrontation with the voivode considerably weakened his position.

Some of them refused to fight against blacks, supporting the principles of liberty ; also, a few Poles ( around 100 ) actually joined the rebels ( Władysław Franciszek Jabłonowski was one of the Polish generals ).

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.

His uncle Władysław III, king of Poland and Hungary, had been killed earlier at the Battle of Varna in 1444 while leading the Hungarian armies against the Ottomans.

However, not all the Silesian dukes accepted his authority: Dukes Bolko I the Strict, Konrad II the Hunchback and three of the four sons of Władysław of Opole: Casimir of Bytom, Mieszko I of Cieszyn and Przemysław of Racibórz were completely against Henry's politics.

" Rightist-nationalist deviation " ( Polish: odchylenie prawicowo-nacjonalistyczne ) was a political propaganda term used by the Polish Stalinists against prominent activists, such as Władysław Gomułka and Marian Spychalski who opposed Soviet involvement in the Polish interior affairs, as well as internationalism displayed by the creation of the Cominform and the subsequent merger that created the PZPR.

Such inconveniences aside, Władysław finally took the Hungarian throne, having engaged in a two-year civil war against Elisabeth.

The " bulwark of Christianity " and other slogans put forward by the papal envoy Giuliano Cesarini, together with much more reasonable but only verbal promises of Venetian and papal fleets blockading the Dardanelles Straits, along with an enticing vision of a promise of victory in this glorious crusade carried for the glory of God and against the Turks, persuaded Władysław to engage his freshly victorious forces ( long campaign ) for another season of war, thus breaching the ten-year truce with the aggressive and still powerful Ottoman Empire.

In 1402, Władysław answered the rumblings against his rule by marrying Anna of Celje, a granddaughter of Casimir III of Poland, a political match which re-legitimised his reign.

In December 1408, Władysław and Vytautas held strategic talks in Navahrudak Castle, where they decided to foment a Samogitian uprising against Teutonic rule to draw German forces away from Pomerelia.

This stung the Order into issuing a declaration of war against Poland on 6 August, which Władysław received on 14 August in Nowy Korczyn.

The Knights dispatched letters to the monarchs of Europe, preaching their usual crusade against the heathens ; Władysław countered with his own letters to the monarchs, accusing the Order of planning to conquer the whole world.

In 1422, Władysław fought another war, known as the Gollub War, against the Teutonic Order, defeating them in under two months before the Order's imperial reinforcements had time to arrive.

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.

Immediately after this Władysław ( after an unsuccessfully retaliatory expedition against Silesia and forced to recognized Zbigniew as the legitimate heir ) appointed his sons as commanders of the army which was formed in order to recapture Gdansk Pomerania.

Władysław decided to support him against his own sons.

The battle was fought between the Hussite confederates under Spytko of Melsztyn against the royal forces of King Władysław III of Poland under Hińcza of Rogów and de facto regent bishop Zbigniew Oleśnicki.

The Hungarian noblemen called then the young King Władysław III of Poland to the throne of Hungary accepting its defense against the Ottomans: he was crowned as Władysław I of Hungary, and never went back to his homeland again, assuming the rule in the Hungarian Kingdom next to the influential nobleman Janos Hunyadi.

In 1093, Ladislaus supported Duke Zbigniew's revolt against his father, Duke Władysław I Herman of Poland.

Elected king of Poland in 1632, Władysław was fairly successful in defending the Polish – Lithuanian Commonwealth against invasion, most notably in the Smolensk War of 1632 – 34, in which he participated personally.

In the war against Russia in 1632 – 1634 ( the Smolensk War ), Władysław succeeded in breaking the siege in September 1633 and then in turn surrounded the Russian army under Mikhail Shein, which was then forced to surrender on 1 March 1634.

King Władysław wanted to continue the war or, because the Polish – Swedish Treaty of Altmark would soon be expiring, ally with the Russians to strike against Sweden.

During the wars against Ottomans in 1633 – 1634 Władysław moved the Commonwealth army south of the Muscovy border, where under command of hetman Stanisław Koniecpolski it forced the Turks to renew a peace treaty.

Despite now he had his own district, Bolesław didn't pursue a foreign policy, who continue under the hands of his brother, a fact revealed during the dispute with Duke Casimir I of Kuyavia for the possession of Ladzka, who was given to him by Henry II the Pious as a dowry of his daughter Constance-Casimir I's second wife -; this decision wasn't recognized by Władysław Odonic's sons, but eventually they reconciled and even signed and an alliance with the Kuyavian Duke, which effectively ended with any attempt to change the ownership of the disputed land.