Daily Medieval

In the past few days we've been looking at some early history of Poland. Although there are other chronicles, the person recognized as P...

Zbigniew of Poland was the first-born son of Władysław I Herman, Duke of Poland, but because he was born out of wedlock he was not considere...

I suppose it starts with Piast the Wheelwright. According to Gesta principum Polonorum ("Deeds of the Princes of the Poles"), Pia...

The king of Poland from 1333 to 1370 was Casimir III, later called "the Great" (the only Polish monarch to be given that title). W...

After the death of his second wife, Anna of Cilli , Jogaila looked for another suitable match. Because he was Lithuanian, and ruling that c...

Although Sigismund, King of Hungary and brother-in-law to Jadwiga of Poland , had tried to annex parts of Poland and allied himself with the...

The unifying of Poland and Lithuania after the marriage of Jadwiga of Poland and Jogaila, the Grand Duke of Lithuania , did not resolve al...

Henry II the Pious was born in Poland to Henry the Bearded and Hedwig of Andechs . Henry the Bearded had worked hard to unite several differ...

The 14th century French poet Eustache Deschamps said “at royal courts everyone wants to play the trumpet, gittern, and rebebe.” You know wha...

Władysław III of Poland was born on 31 October 1424. He was named King of Poland when he was 10 years old and King of Hungary at the age ...

Artwork depicting the Statute of Kalisz Bolesław V the Pious (1224 - 1279) was (at different and overlapping times)  Duke of Greater P...

Władysław the Elbow-high was honored with a 500-Złotych gold coin in 2013 You may remember the story of the Carolingian king Pepin the S...

The Council of Constance (illustrated here) in 1414 has been mentioned before—or, at least, its outcomes. It was at this, the 16th ecumenica...

The name "Hedwig" is now familiar to millions as the name of Harry Potter's owl, but it has a long history that predates its u...