COIN OF POLAND - POLISH KINGS SERIES You are invited to bid on a 500 zlotych coin of Poland commemorating Wladyslaw II Jagiello, King of Poland. Władysław II Jagiełło (c. 1352/1362 – 1 June 1434) was the Grand Duke of Lithuania (1377–1434)
and then the King of Poland (1386–1434),
first alongside his wife Jadwiga until
1399, and then sole King of Poland. He ruled in Lithuania from 1377. Born a pagan, in 1386 he converted to Catholicism and was baptized as
Władysław in Krakow, married the young Queen Jadwiga, and was crowned King of
Poland as Władysław II Jagiełło. In 1387 he converted Lithuania to
Christianity. His own reign in Poland started in 1399, upon the death of Queen
Jadwiga, and lasted a further thirty-five years and laid the foundation for the
centuries-long Polish–Lithuanian union. He was a member of the Jagiellonian
dynasty in Poland that bears his name and was
previously also known as the Gediminid dynasty in the Grand Duchy of Lithuania. The dynasty ruled both states until 1572,and
became one of the most influential dynasties in late medieval and early modern Central and Eastern Europe. During his reign, the Polish-Lithuanian state was the largest state in
the Christian world. |