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  Ladislaus - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Ladislaus III of Poland (Władysław III Warneńczyk) (Vladislaus I of Hungary, I.
Ladislaus Jindrich of Bohemia (Vladislav Jindrich of Bohemia)
Saint Ladislaus (Ladislaus I of Hungary) (Szent László in Hungarian)
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 Search Encyclopedia.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Ladislaus Herman Ladislaus Hermanläd´Ĭslousand180; hĕr´män, 1040-1102, duke of Poland (1079-1102), brother and successor of Boleslaus II.
Ladislaus V Ladislaus V or Ladislaus Posthumus, 1440-57, king of Hungary (1444-57) and, as Ladislaus I, king of Bohemia (1453-57).
Ladislaus III Ladislaus III, 1424-44, king of Poland (1434-44) and, as Uladislaus I, king of Hungary (1440-44), son of Ladislaus II.
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 Wladislaus I of Poland - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Wladislaus I the Short or Elbow-high (Polish: Władysław I Łokietek) was King of Poland, duke till 1300 and the Prince of Kraków from 1305 until his coronation on January 20, 1320.
Wladyslaw the Short died on 2 March 1333 in Cracow.
Due to his short stature, the king was nicknamed 'Łokietek', which is a diminutive of the word 'łokieć' (ell, elbow).
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 Polish History - Part 3
The heritage was contested by Silesian Prince Henry of Glogow and Prince of Sieradz, Leczyca and Brzesc, Ladislaus [Wladyslaw] the Short, as well as by the Czech King of the Przemyslid Family, Wenceslaus [Waclaw] II.
The coronation of Ladislaus the Short and his spouse, Hedwig, was held in Krakow in 1320.
Ladislaus the Short, in his struggle to recover Pomerania, took advantage of the Pope's support and of the alliance with Hungary, but neither a court trial before the papal envoys, which he won, nor an armed struggle, brought the desired effect.
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...Ladislaus IV, king of Poland, 1595-1648, king of Poland (1632-48), son and successor of Sigismund III.
...Ladislaus III, king of Poland, 1424-44, king of Poland (1434-44) and, as Uladislaus I, king of Hungary (1440-44), son of Ladislaus II.
...Ladislaus II, king of Poland, or Ladislaus Jagiello (yagye´lo) (KEY), 1350?-1434, king of Poland (1386-1434), grand duke of Lithuania (1378-1401), founder of the...
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 Árpáds - Art History Online Reference and Guide
Under Ladislaus I (1077–1095) and Coloman (1095–1116), Hungary annexed the coastal regions of old Croatia, Dalmatia, Bosnian territories to the south of the Sava river, and northern western and central Slovakia.
Ladislaus founded the bishoprics of Oradea and Zagreb, and unified the Greek bishopric of Bács with the Latin archbishopric of Kalocsa.
The short rule of Stephen V (1270–1272) was followed by the rule of his son, the young Ladislaus IV (1272–1290), who was influenced by his Cumanian mother and her surroundings, which brought about royal conflicts with the church and the oligarchs.
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 iqexpand.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
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 Jadwiga of Poland - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Jadwiga was a great-granddaughter of King Ladislaus the Short, who had reunited Poland in 1320.
In the same year Jogaila and the lords of Lesser Poland signed the Union of Krewo in which Jogaila pledged to adopt Latin Christianity and unite Lithuania with Poland in exchange for Jadwiga's hand and the Polish crown.
Descendants of Vladislav the Short (through Silesian dukes of Swidnica) included the then, who died without issue in 1419, as well as Silesian dukes of Opole and Sagan.
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 Andegawen Poland biography .ms   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Her reign saw the start of Poland's dynastic union with neighbouring Lithuania, and the latter nation's conversion to Christianity.
Both her mother, Elizabeth, and grandmother, Elizabeth Lokietkówna, were from the Piast dynasty which had ruled Poland from IX century until 1370, and she was the granddaughter of King Ladislaus I, who had reunited Poland earlier in the century.
Jagiello was crowned king of Poland as Ladislaus II.
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 The world's top arpads websites   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
The Polish ruler made Stephen’s cousins Ladislaus the Bold (1001- died 1029) and Vazul (1029-1030), who had fled Hungary in 995, the rulers of the Nitrian principality (Slovakia) within the Polish principality.
Under Ladislaus I (1077-1095) and Coloman (1095-1116), Hungary annexed the coastal regions of old Croatia, Dalmatia, Bosnian territories to the south of the Sava river, and northern western and central Slovakia.
The short rule of Stephen V (1270-1272) was followed by the rule of the young Ladislaus IV (1272-1290), who was influenced by his Cumanian mother and her surroundings, which brought about royal conflicts with the church and the oligarchs.
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 [No title]   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Ladislaus Fendler fled France for Germany towards the end of the 2nd World War on a stolen bicycle.
It was here that he met the farm-worker Frieda Fichtl (née Irl), whom he married a short time later.
Ladislaus Fendler's great enterprising spirit manifested itself before the end of 1945 with the founding of a "transportation company" together with his wife's
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 Casimir the Great   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Casimir the Great (1310-1370), the son of Ladislaus the Short and Poland's only king with the cognomen "Great".
He completed the work of the reunification of the state which under his rule more than doubled its size.
His death caused sadness and anxiety among his subjects.
www.artyzm.com /matejko/poczet/e_wielki.htm   (171 words)

  
 Paradox Interactive Forums - Royal Court of Hungary   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
During the reigns of St. Ladislaus (1077-95) and Koloman (1095-1114) the Church was reformed and many ordinances were passed against the prevailing abuses.
Ladislaus successfully resisted the invasion of the pagan Cumans.
The last years of the reign of Béla IV were disturbed by a quarrel with the Curia concerning the appointment to the vacant Diocese of Zágráb (Agram), and by the revolt of his son Stephen, who succeeded him.
www.europa-universalis.com /forum/showthread.php?t=201490   (10358 words)

  
 Louis I of Hungary - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Became a king of Poland in 1370 in right of (and practically together with) his mother, sister of Casimir III of Poland who died 1370.
Louis' mother was Elizabeth, the daughter of Ladislaus the Short, and the sister of Casimir III the Great, king of Poland and the last ruler of Piast dynasty.
The Piasts did not die out in 1370, there were plenty of Piasts as princes in Silesia and in Masovia.
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 Ladislaus III of Poland   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Ladislaus III on a painting by Jan Matejko
Vladislaus III of Varna (Polish Władysław Warneńczyk, also seen as Wladislaus, Ladislaus, Ladislas or Vladislav) (October 31, 1424 - November 10, 1444).
There is also a symbolic mausoleum of Ladislaus III in Varna.
www.worldhistory.com /wiki/L/Ladislaus-III-of-Poland.htm   (303 words)

  
 JewishEncyclopedia.com - CRACOW   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
The first books issued there were stated by Wolf to be a Pentateuch and the five Megillot (1530), and a Haggadah (1531), which do not, however, bear the name of the printer, and Steinschneider accordingly denies the existence of a press at Cracow at that date.
Samuel Asher and Eliakim, the sons of Ḥayyim Halicz, established a printing-office in 1534, which survived only a short time.
Johannes Halicz became a printer of Hebrew in 1538, and in 1539 he associated with him Johannes Kurzias of Glogau; but their enterprise was also short-lived, and the last work from their press is dated 1546.
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 wikien.info: Main_Page   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Hedwig was a great granddaughter of King Ladislaus the Short who had reunited Poland in 1320.
In the same year Jogaila and the lords of Lesser Poland signed the Union of Krevo in which Jogaila pledged to adopt Latin Christianity and unite Lithuania with Poland in exchange for Hedwig's hand and the Polish crown.
Hedwig (12) and Jogaila (36) – who had been earlier baptized Ladislaus – were wed in March 1386 in Kraków.
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 Rafal T. Prinke - The Jagged Sword and Polish Rosicrucians   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
In short, it was probably made for a member of the royal Piast family, as several of them were involved in the Cruciades at that time and also were connected in one way or another with military orders of knighthood.
The known history of Szczerbiec starts in 1320, when it was first used for the coronation of the Polish king Ladislaus the Short, who reunited the small appanage divisions after two hundred years.
For example, Ladislaus the Varnian (ruled 1434-1444) practiced crystalomancy and his manuscript handbook of it is preserved in the Bodleian Library.
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 Military Memorabilia | Handcrafted Figurines at Poland by Mail
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We were fortunate to become friends with one whose specialty is Polish army figures.
Ladislaus Jagiello (1348-1434) became grand duke of Lithuania in 1377 and was crowned king of Poland in 1396.
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 Kujawy
From the end of the 13th century and after 1466 the region bordered with the Teutonic Order State being the defensive foreground of the Polish territories.
Two important Polish Kings were born here: Wtadystaw Lokietek (Ladislaus the Short) (1260—1331) who re-unified the Polish territories divided into feudal provinces, and his son Kazimierz Wielki (Casimir the Great) (1210—1370) who continued his father's policy.
In 1096, the citizens of Kruszwica rebelled against the king Wtadystaw Herman (Ladislaus Herman).
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 The Latin Rite   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
The king was forced into exile and Ladislaus I Herman, 1079-1102, became the ruler of Poland.
The following kings were short-term ineffectual rulers: Leszek the White, 1202-1227; Ladislaus III (Spindleshanks), 1227-1229; Conrad of Mazovia, 1229-1232; Henry I (The Bearded) 1232-1238.
Ladislaus (The Short), 1306-1333, managed to reunite the warring duchies into a kingdom.
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 History of Krakow   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
In 1320, the first crowning ceremony of Ladislaus the Short in the Wawel Cathedral strengthened the rank of the capital city of Krakow.
In 1333, under the last king from the Piast dynasty, Casimir the Great (1333-1370), the city became a rightful member of the Western culture.
It was to become one of the most important European university schools.
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Ladislaus III of Varna (†1444; king’s corpse was never found following the disastrous battle of Varna, therefore the king’s tomb in Cracow is empty.
In Varna (Bulgaria) there is Ladislaus III’s mausoleum and the legend has it that the king had salvaged himself from the battlefield of Varna and died many years later in Madeira, where he was buried under the church at Madalena do Mar)
Ladislaus III of Varna (†1444; king’s corpse was never found following the disastrous battle of Varna, but a Royal Mausoleum was built in 1935 on the battlefield where the king had probably perished)
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 Royal coronations in Poland
20 January 1320 - Ladislaus I the Short and his wife Jadwiga
4 March 1386 - Ladislaus II Jagiello, married to Jadwiga, union of Poland and Lithuania
19 December 1417 - Elizabeth Pilecka, third wife of Ladislaus II Jagiello
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 Stop Smiling Magazine: The magazine for high-minded lowlifes   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Following a prolonged, assassination-laden power struggle, a somewhat stable monarchy was instituted, with the unfortunately named Ladislaus the Short sitting on the throne.
In a short while, he would make the acquaintance of the two men with whom he formed what has been called the “Trinity of the Polish avant-garde”: Stanilaus Ignacy Witkiewicz and Bruno Schulz.
It is an odd little book, consisting of short, declarative, often fragmented sentences that pile up gradually, sketching a refutation of one line of thought, or the history of an important concept, or a weary dismissal of Existentialism.
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 Strona Eli   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Casimir the Great was the son of Ladislaus the Short and Jadwiga of Wielkopolska.
He came to the throne after his father’s death and was crowned on April 25
According to the treaty with Hungarian king concluded years before Casimir’s death, Polish throne was passed to the Angevins dynasty.
www.gim1wieliczka.hg.pl /ang1.htm   (464 words)

  
 Studio apartment for 1 people, Villa Holidays & Holiday Villas in Spain, France, Italy, Greece, Turkey & Florida   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
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 Pauline Kael
In this first movie version of Margaret Landon's account of the Englishwoman who went to Siam in 1862 to teach the multitudinous children of the barbaric king, Irene Dunne is Anna to Rex Harrison's king.
Harrison wears a dusky makeup and a pair of short pants that wrap around his haunches, and he speaks in a quaint dialect-a sort of pidgin Piccadilly-but he's never less than magnetically ridiculous.
They had worked together earlier in 1941 in BACK STREET, and they seem to have kept their rapport going here; they act as if they were in a wonderful movie.
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 Piast   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Asinius Pollio [870], in the book in which he finds fault speaks thus: "In this work his chief assistant was a certain Atteius, a those who studied the practice of declamation; in short, one who claimed says, "that he had made great proficiency in Greek literature, and some [871], and afterwards began to teach others.
numerous: "Remember," it says, "to recommend generally our Extracts, books." He afterwards formed an intimate acquaintance with Caius undertook to write a history, he supplied the one with short annals of with rules on the art of composition.
I am, therefore, surprised that collecting old words and figures of speech for Sallust, when he must have appropriate expressions should be made use of; and that, above all translations, should be avoided.
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 Ladislaus I - ENCYCLOPEDIA - The History Channel UK
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Ladislaus I, 1260-1333, duke (1306-20) and later king (1320-33) of Poland; called Ladislaus the Short.
THE HISTORY CHANNEL and BIOGRAPHY are trademarks of AandE Television Networks used under license ©2004 AandE Television Networks.
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 Nowy Sacz - homepage by Roman   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
1311: Nowy Sącz supports the King Ladislaus the Short, during the rebellion organised by
Stanislaw Malachowski of Nowy Sącz for example, was the Speaker of the Polish Parliament.
April 1410: The King Ladislaus Jagiello holds a meeting with the Grand Duke of Lithuania Vytautas at the
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