Olgierd , (Lithuanian Algirdas ) Large-duke of Lithuania, 1330 with 1377.

He was the son of Ghédimin or Gediminas. He détrôna his older brother Janutis, and shared the capacity with his other brother, Kestutis, but carried only the title of large-duke.

He avenged death for his father on the teutonic Ordre, in 1330, to which he took again the conquests made in Samogitie. He removed with the Tartar Dniepr the Podolie and then was beaten and made captive by the teutonic Chevaliers. He managed to escape and prevent the Order from being established in Lithuania. He lost however the Volhynie, the Podolie, the palatinats of Brzesc and Belz, which the Poles charmed to him.

In 1362, it demolished three Mongolian hordes of in Podolie and on Dniepr, then plundered and détuisit Kherson. It directed against the Russia three forwardings including two in 1367 to support Michel II against Dmitri. It invades then the Prussia, in 1370, but lost the Bataille of Rudan, which involved the occupation of Vilnius by the Germans.

Olgierd died in 1377. It left twelve wire of which most famous are Jogaila and Švitrigaila. .

Category: History of Lithuania

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