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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 ...
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 1265–1335 r. 1307–1310: Casimir III the Great 1310–1333–1370: Elisabeth of Poland 1305–1380: Charles I of Hungary 1286–1342: Anastasia of Halych: Alexander prince of Tver 1301–1339: John II of France 1319–1364: Bonne of Luxembourg 1315–1349: William, Count of Celje 1361–1392: Anna of Poland 1366–1425: Louis I ...
The reigns of King Sigismund I the Old (1506–1548) and King Sigismund II Augustus (1548–1572) witnessed an intense cultivation of culture and science (a Golden Age of the Renaissance in Poland), of which the astronomer Nicolaus Copernicus (1473–1543) [36] is the best known representative.
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
St. Stanislaus of Szczepanów as the patron of the Kingdom of Poland. The history of Poland as an entity has been traditionally traced to c. 966, when the pagan prince Mieszko I and the West Polans adopted Christianity. The Baptism of Poland established the first true Polish state, though the process was begun by Mieszko's Piast ancestors.
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.
Stephen Báthory as King of Poland with a Mannerist crown from about 1584, most probably created for him in Gdańsk after Willem van den Blocke's design. [ 5 ] In 1572, the throne of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth , at the time the largest and one of the most populous states in Europe, was vacated when King Sigismund II Augustus died ...