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Kinga of Poland or Kinga of Hungary, also Saint Kinga (also known as Cunegunda; Polish: Święta Kinga, Hungarian: Szent Kinga, Lithuanian: Šv. Kunigunda ) (5 March 1224 [ 1 ] [ 2 ] – 24 July 1292) is a saint in the Catholic Church and patroness of Poland and Lithuania .
Saint Kinga (święta Kinga; 1224–1292) [15] Saint Jadwiga the Queen (święta Jadwiga Królowa; c. 1373/4–1399) [16] Saint John Cantius (święty Jan Kanty; 1390–1473) [17] Servant of God Isaiah Boner (sługa Boży Izajasz Boner; c. 1400–1471) Saint John of Dukla (święty Jan z Dukli; 1414–1484) [18]
A legend about Princess Kinga of Poland, associated with the Wieliczka mine, tells of a Hungarian princess about to be married to Bolesław V the Chaste, the Prince of Kraków. As part of her dowry, she asked her father, Béla IV of Hungary, for a lump of salt, since salt was prizeworthy in Poland.
St. Kinga of Poland (1234–1292), Patroness of Poland and Lithuania; Kunigunde of Poland (c. 1298 – 1331), daughter of King Wladyslaw I the Elbow-High of Poland; Cunigunde of Poland (died 1357), wife of Louis VI the Roman, Duke of Bavaria and Margrave of Brandenburg; Kunigunde von Orlamünde (1303–1382), consort of Otto VI, Count of Weimar ...
As a young girl, Yolanda was sent to Poland to be tutored under the supervision of her sister, Kinga, who was married to the Duke of Poland. There, she was encouraged to marry Bolesław the Pious, which she did in 1257. [3] [4] They had three daughters: Elisabeth of Kalisz (1263 – 28 September 1304); married Henry V, Duke of Legnica
Himelin, obscure Irish/Scottish saint, reputed to be brother of Rumbold and thereby son of a Scottish king; Igor Konstantinovich, Prince of Russia; Illtud, Welsh saint, who is considered in some sources to have been the son of a Breton prince, and to have been a cousin to King Arthur
Margaret of Hungary, OP (Margit in Hungarian; January 27, 1242 – January 18, 1270) was a Dominican nun and the daughter of King Béla IV of Hungary and Maria Laskarina.She was the younger sister of Kinga of Poland (Kunegunda) and Yolanda of Poland and, through her father, the niece of the famed Elizabeth of Hungary.
The legend considers the saint as a kind of lord of the elements, who commands the water, rain, fire, mountain, and rock; he changes, enlarges, or diminishes objects; flies through the air; delivers from dungeon and gallows; takes part in battles, and even in martyrdom is invulnerable; animals, the wildest and the most timid, serve him (e.g ...