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  Encyclopedia: Casimir IV of Poland
Saint Casimir Jagiełło, prince of Poland and Grand Duke of Lithuania was born in 1458 at the royal palace in Kraków.
Casimir I on Jan Matejkos painting Casimir I, the Restorer (Polish: Kazimierz I Odnowiciel) (1015- 1058), duke of Poland, was the son of Mieszko II of Poland and Rixa von Lothringen.
Bolesław IV Kędzierzawy Boleslaus IV the Curly (Polish: Bolesław Kędzierzawy) - high-duke of Poland (1146-1173) Born: 1120 Poland Died: 1173 Poland Parents: Boleslaus III the Wrymouth, duke of Poland, and Salome von Berg-Schelklingen, daughter of Henry duke of Berg Maried to: Russian pricess Wierzchoslawa...
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 CASIMIR IV. - LoveToKnow Article on CASIMIR IV.   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
Jagiello, was appointed while still a lad grandduke of Lithuania by his father, and crowned king of Poland at Cracow in June 1447, three years after the death of his elder brother, Wladislaus III., at the battle of Varna.
Casimir was to be a leading factor in this combination, and he took advantage of it to procure the election of his son Wladislaus as king of Bohemia.
Casimirs last political act was the conclusion of a fresh alliance with Louis of Hungary against Charles IV.
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 Casimir IV of Poland - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The son of king Wladislaus II Jagiełło and younger brother to Wladislaus III, Casimir succeeded the latter after a three-year interregnum.
That same year, Casimir was approached by the Prussians for aid against the ruling Teutonic Order, which he promised, by the act of incorporation of Prussia to Polish Kingdom; however, when the cities of Prussia rebelled against Teutons, the order resisted with greater strength than expected, and the Thirteen Years' War (1454-1466) ensued.
Casimir, in alliance with the Prussian Confederation, defeated the Teutonic Order taking over its capital in Malbork, which in the ensuing Peace of Toruń 1466 recognised Polish sovereignty over Royal Prussia and the Polish crown's overlordship over Ducal Prussia.
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 AllRefer.com - Casimir IV (Polish History, Biography) - Encyclopedia
He became (1440) ruler of Lithuania and in 1447 succeeded his brother Ladislaus III as king of Poland.
His marriage to an Austrian Hapsburg enabled his son Ladislaus to become king of Bohemia and later king of Hungary as Uladislaus II.
Casimir was succeeded by his sons John I (1492–1501), Alexander I (1501–5), and Sigismund I (1506–48).
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The marriage strengthened the ties between the houses of Jagiello and Habsburg.
His son named Casimir was to have been married to the daughter of emperor (Click link for more info and facts about Frederick III) Frederick III but he instead chose a religious life, eventually becoming canonized as (Click link for more info and facts about St. Casimir) St.
Casimir and his son (Click link for more info and facts about Wladislaus) Wladislaus combined the thrones of (A republic in central Europe) Hungary and (A historical area and former kingdom in the Czech Republic) Bohemia.
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 Casimir IV (from history of Poland) --  Encyclopædia Britannica
The states of the Jagiellonians > The waning of the Middle Ages > Casimir IV The long and brilliant reign of Casimir IV Jagiellonian (1447–92) corresponded to the age of “new monarchies” in western Europe.
As grand duke of Lithuania from 1440 to 1492 and king of Poland from 1447 to 1492, Casimir IV was neither a man of great ambition nor a great warrior.
It was the relegalization of the trade union Solidarity and the agreement to hold partially free parliamentary elections that appeared to have opened the floodgates of radical reforms that spilled...
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 CASIMIR IV - Online Information article about CASIMIR IV
war, during which Casimir's own subjects gave him more trouble than all his enemies.
Curia, which hitherto had been hostile to Casimir because of his steady and patriotic resistance to papal aggression, was due to the permutations of See also:
relief to Poland, and Casimir employed the two remaining years of his reign in consolidating his position still further.
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