InfoPersons, originating from Poland
Jadwiga of Poland
In Poland known as Jadwiga Andegaweńska, in Germany as Hedwig von Polen,in Lithuania known as Jadvyga I-oji de Anjou.
Not to be confused with Jadwiga or Hedwig of Kalisz (In Polish: Jadwiga Bolesławówna).
Not to be confused with St. Hedwig of Andechs. (In Polish: Święta Jadwiga Śląski).
Born in 1373 or 1374 in Buda, Hungary
Died July 17, 1399 in Kraków.
Monarch of Poland from 1384 to her death.
Member of the Capetian House of Anjou, the daughter of King Louis I of Hungary and Elisabeth of Bosnia. Jadwiga could claim descent from the House of Piast, the ancient native Polish dynasty on both her mother's and her father's side. Her paternal grandmother Elisabeth of Cuyavia was the daughter of King Władysław I the Elbow-high, who had reunited Poland in 1320.
Jadwiga was canonized by Pope John Paul II in 1997. She is venerated by the Roman Catholic Church as the patron saint of queens and a United Europe.
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