Casimir IV Jagellon

See also: Casimir

Casimir IV Jagellon or Casimir Jagiellonian (Polish Kazimierz Jagiellonczyk ) (Lithuanian Kazimieras Jogailaitis ) (November 30th 1427 - June 7th 1492) was Large-duke of Lithuania of 1440 with 1492 and king of Poland of 1447 with 1492.

It had a tough foreign politics to preserve the political union of the Lithuania and Poland. It tried to cover the territories lost with old Poland. Its great victory was to subject the teutonic knights.

Second wire of Ladislas II Jagellon and its fourth wife Zofja Holszanska. His/her father is 75 years old with his birth and his/her brother Ladislas is future king de Pologne.

  • 1434 Ladislas goes up on the throne and Casimir becomes the heir to the crown. In spite of that, its education was very neglected.

  • 1440 the assassination of the large duke of Lithuania Sigismond Ier Kęstutaitis propels it large duke by a coup d'etat of the noble Lithuanians who obviously thought of being able to handle it.

  • 1444 Whereas the risk of disunion is great, Ladislas dies in the Bataille of Varna the November 10th.

  • 1447 it is crowned king de Pologne after a 3 years interregnum.

  • 1454 the February 10th with Cracow: Marriage with Elisabeth de Habsbourg for purely political reasons: To take the Bohemia and the Hungary. This marriage was particularly happy since six boys and seven girls followed one another. Elisabeth was called the mother of the kings: four of its sons will be it indeed.

  • 1454 Rising general in Prussia against the domination of the order the Order Teutonique. At the request of the representatives of the States the Prussia is incorporated in Poland.

  • 1454 with 1466 War thirteen year old against the Order Teutonique.

  • 1454 in November privilege of Nieszawa granted to the nobility first not towards the transformation of Poland into oligarchy (democracy peerage-book).

  • 1455 died of Zbigniew Oleśnicki bishop of Cracow the most powerful politician at the time of first Jagellon.

  • 1466 the October 19th Peace of Toruń at the request of the Teutonique Order exhausted by the war. Poméranie of Gdansk (royal Prussia) is attached to Poland. The territories left with the Order become strongholds of the Polish crown.

  • 1471 his/her oldest son Vladislas Jagelleon is crowned king de Bohême

  • 1474 first book printed in Poland

  • 1492 it dies the June 7th with Grodno and is buried in the crypt of the castle of Wawel.

Family and descent

Casimir IV married Elisabeth de Habsbourg (1438 - 1505) girl of Albert II of Habsbourg king of the Romans, Hungary and Bohemia of which

  • Sigismond Ier the Old man king de Pologne and Large-duke of Lithuania

Sources

Category: History of Lithuania

Be-X-old: КазімірЯгелончык

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