InfoPersons, originating from Poland
Casimir IV Jagiellon
In Polish: Kazimierz IV Jagiellończyk , in Lithuanian: Kazimieras Jogailaitis;Born: 30 November 1427 in Kraków
Died: 7 June 1492 in Grodno, Belarus
Casimir succeeded his brother Władysław III as King of Poland after a three-year interregnum on 25 June 1447, thus continuing the personal union.
During Casimir's rule the rights of Lithuanian nobility - dukes, magnates and bajorai (lesser nobility) - regardless of religion and ethnicity, were given equality to those of the Polish szlachta.
Casimir and the Prussian Confederation defeated the Teutonic Order, taking over its headquarters at Malbork Castle. In the Second Peace of Torun (1466) the Order recognized Polish sovereignty over the seceded western Prussian regions, therefore then called Royal Prussia, and the Polish crown's overlordship over the remaining Teutonic Monastic State of
Painting by Jan Matejko
Prussia.
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