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unusual facts about king of Poland



Bezprym

He was the eldest son of Bolesław I the Brave, King of Poland, but was deprived of the succession by his father, who around 1001 sent him to Italy, in order to became a monk at one of Saint Romuald's hermitages in Ravenna.

Catherine Willoughby, 12th Baroness Willoughby de Eresby

During this period Sigismund II Augustus, the King of Poland and Duke of Lithuania appointed them as administrators of Lithuania, based at Kražiai.

Dorothea von Medem

Because her husband was preoccupied with political difficulties at home involving his overlord the King of Poland and the Courland nobility, he frequently sent her on diplomatic missions to Warsaw, lasting months at a time, and to Berlin, Karlovy Vary, and Saint Petersburg for shorter periods.

Goniądz

Other owners of the town also expanded the small castle, the most notable of them being Prince Michał Gliński, Mikołaj Radziwiłł and Zygmunt August, the future king of Poland.

Sigismund, Holy Roman Emperor

Born in Nuremberg, Sigismund was the son of the Holy Roman Emperor, Charles IV, and of his fourth wife, Elizabeth of Pomerania, the granddaughter of King Casimir III of Poland, and the great-granddaughter of the Grand Duke of Lithuania, Gediminas.


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Anna Prucnal

After her father, a surgeon, was killed by the Nazis during World War II, Anna and her sister were raised by their mother, who was of noble descent and related to the 18th-century King of Poland Stanisław Leszczyński.

Augustus III of Poland

English translation: August III, by the grace of God, King of Poland, Grand Duke of Lithuania, Ruthenia (i.e. Galicia), Prussia, Masovia, Samogitia, Kiev, Volhynia, Podolia, Podlaskie, Livonia, Smolensk, Severia, Chernihiv, and also hereditary Duke of Saxony and Prince-elector.

Daniel Dumaresq

From there he was called upon to return to Russia and Poland to advise Catherine the Great (1762–96) of Russia and Stanislaus II (1764–95) King of Poland on educational matters.

Duchy of Belz

At first it was part of another Polish fiefdom, the Duchy of Masovia, as in 1388 the king of Poland, Władysław Jagiełło, granted Belz to Siemowit IV, Duke of Masovia, for his recognition of Masovia as a fiefdom of Poland and as a dowry for Siemowit's marriage with Jagiełło's sister, Alexandra.

Emil Starkenstein

Saul Wahl Katzenelbogen who, according to the glossary of the family tree, 'became king of Poland for one night after the death of Stephen Bathory.

Georg Lisiewski

He was born in Olesko, a town formerly in Poland but now in Ukraine, that was also the birthplace of the King of Poland, Jan III Sobieski.

Gołąbki

Polish myth holds the Grand Duke of Lithuania and King of Poland Casimir IV Jagiello fed his army with gołąbki before a key battle of the Thirteen Years' War outside of Marienburg Castle against the Teutonic Order, victory stemming from the strength of the hearty meal.

Greek Battalion of Balaklava

Invited to the tour were the diplomatic delegates of England, France and Austria, Stanisław Poniatowski, king of Poland, and Austria’s emperor Josef II.

Hirsch Edelmann

Edelmann also brought out a valuable critical new edition of Estori ha-Farḥi's "Kaftor u-Feraḥ," Berlin, 1851, and wrote "Gedullat Sha'ul," a biography of Rabbi Saul Wahl, the alleged one-day King of Poland, with an appendix, "Nir le-Dawid ule-Zar'o," the genealogy of Denis M. Samuel of London, a descendant of that rabbi, London, 1854.

Katarzyna Sobieska

Katarzyna Sobieska (1634–1694) was the sister of King of Poland Jan III Sobieski and a noble lady.

Ladislaus I of Poland

Władysław I the Elbow-high (1261–1333), King of Poland (also known as Ladislaus the Short, or Władysław I Łokietek)

Louis de Silvestre

Friedrich August II, the prince-elector of Saxony, met Silvestre when he was in France and offered him the chance to work at the court of his father Augustus II, King of Poland.

Maria Anna Vasa

She was the eldest child and only daughter of John II Casimir Vasa, King of Poland and Grand Duke of Lithuania, by his wife Marie Louise Gonzaga.

Mauritius Ferber

Either on 23 February 1534 or 1 March 1535, Ferber suffered a cerebral stroke, which left him unable to speak, and Copernicus wrote a prescription which was approved by the king of Poland's physician.

Osip Kozlovsky

Kozlovsky composed a famous Requiem Mass in E flat minor Missa pro defunctis for the death of Stanisław August Poniatowski, the King of Poland (1732–1798), commissioned by the King himself before his death and performed on February 25, 1798 in St Petersburg.

Pokuttya

In 1485, Moldavian prince Stephen the Great, after losing in the previous year his country's exit to the Black Sea to the Ottomans, was in serious need of alliances, and swore allegiance to Casimir IV Jagiellon, King of Poland for Pokuttia, in what is known as the Colomeea oath.

Saul Wahl

"Stephen Báthory, who was king of Poland, died in 1586, and the Poles were divided between wishing to be ruled by the Zamoyski family and the Zborowski family. Polish law at that time stated that if electors could not agree upon a king, an outsider should be appointed "rex pro tempore" (temporary king). Radziwill proposed that Saul Wahl Katzenellenbogen be appointed temporary king, and Wahl was elected to shouts of "Long live King Saul!"

Sigismund of Lithuania

Sigismund II Augustus (1520 – 1572), King of Poland and Grand Duke Sigismund III of Lithuania

Stanisław Poniatowski

Stanisław August Poniatowski (1732–1798), last King of Poland and Grand Duke of Lithuania

Tesson

He was placed with his men to the service of former King of Poland, Stanislas Leszczynski, then Duke of Lorraine and father in law of Louis XV, who granted him the title of Master of the Royal Hunt.

Tiedemann Giese

On July 1, 1536, he was designated by King of Poland, Sigismund I, who considered him a very valuable diplomat, as Bishop of Culm, which was later confirmed by the Pope.

United States of Poland

On its head would be a President with a title of the King of Poland, Lithuania, Polesia and Halych.

Viktor Orth

He believed himself at different times the King of Saxony, the Duke of Luxembourg, and the King of Poland.

Wartislaw VII, Duke of Pomerania

In 1386 he allied himself with the Knights, but in 1390, in Pyzdry, he allied himself with Poland, and pledged vassalage to king of Poland, Władysław Jagiełło.