Algirdaičiai (Algirdas’s line)¶

Overview¶

[Historical record] The sons of Algirdas (d. May 1377) and Uliana of Tver: Jogaila, Skirgaila, Kaributas, Lengvenis, Karigaila, Vygantas and Švitrigaila. They hold Vilnius and the eastern appanages. Jogaila signed Dovydiškės (31 May 1380), retook Vilnius on 12 Jun 1382 and was baptised at Kraków in 1386 as King of Poland. Skirgaila governed Lithuania for him (1387-92) and died at Kyiv on 11 Jan 1397. Švitrigaila ruled 1430-32 and died in 1452. Jogaila’s Jagiellonian sons, Władysław III and Casimir, carry the line into the next century.

Algirdaičiai (Algirdas’s line)


Type	faction
Note	Dynastic branch of Grand Duke Algirdas: Jogaila, Skirgaila, Švitrigaila, and their heirs.

Wants (by book)¶

Book	Goal	Leverage	Red line
I	Remove Kęstutis; trade baptism for a crown	Hanulas, the Order’s alliance	Kęstutis alive at Krėva
II	Hold Lithuania through Skirgaila; keep Vytautas small	Trakai; Henė’s bargains	Vytautas on the throne
III	Vilnius-Radom	Jogaila’s Polish crown	A Kęstutaitis kingdom
IV	Heirs, and no Lithuanian crown	Sophia’s sons (b. 1424, 1427)	Vytautas’s crown
V	Švitrigaila claims Lithuania alone; Casimir recovers it	The Orthodox princes; the council in 1440	Lithuania as a separate kingdom

Patron Force¶

[The saga’s invention] The Shadow-Seller: Jogaila’s 1382 bargain gives his line the crown and loses the land, and the three stones tie the cousins to it (Henė’s stones). The White Silence feeds on them from 1382.

Internal tensions¶

Uliana’s sons against Maria’s elder sons (the Orthodox Andrius and Dmitrijus, who die with Vytautas at the Vorskla). Skirgaila against Vytautas over Trakai. Švitrigaila against Jogaila, imprisoned at Kremenets 1409-18. Feud with the Kęstutaičiai runs from Krėva (15 Aug 1382) to the murder of Žygimantas (20 Mar 1440).

Notable members¶

Algirdas, Jogaila, Skirgaila, Švitrigaila.

Relations

Feeds: Baltoji Tyla (White Silence) (1382–…)

Feud with: Kęstutaičiai (Kęstutis’s line) (1380–1392) — Jogaila and Skirgaila against Kęstutis and Vytautas. · Kęstutaičiai (Kęstutis’s line) (1432–1440) — Švitrigaila against Žygimantas.

Member of: Gediminaičiai (House of Gediminas) — Branch: Algirdas and his sons. · Grand Duchy of Lithuania

Members: Algirdas · Jogaila · Jogailaičiai (Jagiellonians) — Uliana’s line: Jogaila and his heirs. · Karigaila (Jogaila’s brother) · Skirgaila · Uliana of Tver (Julijona Tverietė), Algirdas’s second wife · Čartoriskiai (Czartoryski) — Descent from Konstantinas, a son of Algirdas’s first marriage. · Švitrigaila

Connections¶

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