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Following the Napoleonic Wars, many sovereigns claimed the title of Polish king, duke or ruler, notably German (the King of Prussia was also the sovereign of the Grand Duchy of Posen 1815-1918), Russian (the Congress Kingdom of Poland was founded in 1815 with the widely unrecognized title of King of Poland to the Emperor of Russia until 1915 ...
Władysław IV Vasa [a] or Ladislaus IV of Poland (9 June 1595 – 20 May 1648) was King of Poland, Grand Duke of Lithuania and claimant of the thrones of Sweden and Russia. Born into the House of Vasa as a prince of Poland and of Sweden, Władysław IV was the eldest son of Sigismund III Vasa and Sigismund's first wife, Anna of Austria.
The fragmentation of Poland in 1138. In 1102, Bolesław III Wrymouth became the ruler of Poland. [5] Unlike Władysław I, Bolesław III proved to be a capable leader who restored the full territorial integrity of Poland but ultimately was not able to obtain the royal crown due to continued opposition from the Holy Roman Empire.
titular king 1281–1306–1307: Elisabeth Richeza of Poland 1286–1335: Wenceslaus II of Bohemia 1271–1296–1305: Judith of Habsburg 1271–1297: Hedwig of Kalisz 1266 – 1339: Władysław I the Elbow-high 1261–1306–1333: Euphemia of Kuyavia 1265–1308: Yuri I of Galicia 1252–1308: John of Bohemia titular king 1296–1346 r. 1310 ...
Stanisław II August [a] (born Stanisław Antoni Poniatowski; [b] 17 January 1732 – 12 February 1798), known also by his regnal Latin name Stanislaus II Augustus, and as Stanisław August Poniatowski (Lithuanian: Stanislovas Augustas Poniatovskis), was King of Poland and Grand Duke of Lithuania from 1764 to 1795, and the last monarch of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth.
967 – 17 June 1025: Duke: 992 King: 18 April 1025: Duke: 18 April 1025 King: 17 June 1025: Son of Mieszko I and Dobrawa of Bohemia.First to be crowned king. Regnum Sclavorum, Gothorum sive Polonorum
The Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth, [b] formally known as the Kingdom of Poland and the Grand Duchy of Lithuania [c] and also referred to as Poland–Lithuania or the First Polish Republic, [d] [9] [10] was a federative real union [11] between the Kingdom of Poland and the Grand Duchy of Lithuania, existing from 1569 to 1795.
The king's possession included a rich collection of tapestries (360 pieces), commissioned by him in Brussels in the years 1550–1560. [27] [31] Jan Kochanowski presents his work Satyr to Sigismund, an 1884 illustration by Feliks Sypniewski. The king enjoyed reading, especially short stories, poems and satires.