Jadwiga of Poland

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Jadwiga Andegaweńska (Jan Matejko)

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Jadwiga of Poland's tomb in the Wawel Cathedral

Jadwiga Andegaweńska' (1374 – 1399) became the King of Poland on 16 October 1384 at the age of eleven. She was crowned as a king, not queen. Her royal title was: Hedvigis Dei Gracia Rex Poloniae, necnon terrarum Cracoviae, Sandomiriae, Syradiae, Lanciciae, Cuyaviae, Pomeraniaeque domina et heres, (Jadwiga the grace of God, the Polish king, and heir to the land in Kraków, Sandomierz, Sieradz, Łęczyca, Kujawy and Pomerania). She was the daughter of Louis Hungarian, King of Poland and Hungary).

Jadwiga married a Lithuania Grand Duke, Jogaila (Władysław Jagiełło) on 18 February 1386. After her death during childbirth on 17 July 1399, her husband became the King Ladislaus II of Poland.

In 1997 she was made a saint by Pope John Paul II.

Jadwiga Of Poland Media

• Jadwiga with her mother and sisters, as depicted on Saint Simeon's casket in Zadar

• Lands ruled or claimed around 1370 by Jadwiga's father, Louis the Great (or the Hungarian): Hungary and Poland are colored red, the vassal states and the Kingdom of Naples are coloured light red

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  Dymitr of Goraj by Jan Matejko depicts Jadwiga trying to break the castle gate to join William

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  Queen Jadwiga's Oath, by Józef Simmler, 1867

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  Stephen I of Moldavia's promise of loyalty to Jadwiga and Jogaila against Sigismund

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  Jadwiga's sarcophagus, Wawel Cathedral, Kraków

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  Jadwiga as imagined by Marcello Bacciarelli

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  Jadwiga depicted with her husband as the founders of the Jagiellonian University, early 16th century