Houses

	House	Description
	Alšėniškiai (Holszański, princes of Halshany)	Lithuanian-Ruthenian princes; Julijona married Vytautas (1418), her niece Sophia married Jogaila (1422).
	Gediminaičiai (House of Gediminas)	Dynasty of Grand Duke Gediminas (c.1275–1341/42). The name is a 19th-century label; the Vytis and the Columns are its arms.
	Goštautai (Gasztołd)	Boyar family risen under Vytautas; Jonas Goštautas (d. 1458) led the council that elected Casimir in 1440.
	House of Luxembourg	Sigismund (1368–1437): King of Hungary, of the Romans, of Bohemia, Emperor; offered Vytautas a crown at Lutsk, 1429.
	Jogailaičiai (Jagiellonians)	Jogaila’s line: Grand Dukes of Lithuania and, from 1386, kings of Poland; Vytis plus the double cross.
	Kęsgailos (Kieżgajło)	Samogitian magnates; Mykolas Kęsgaila (d. 1450) was elder of Samogitia.
	Masovian Piasts	Piast cadet line at Warsaw, Czersk and Płock; married into both Gediminid branches.
	Palanga amber-priestess line (Gintaro vaidilutės)	The saga’s invention: the maternal line of Birutė, vessels of the Amber Queen, keepers of the shore flame at Palanga.
	Rurikids of Moscow	Moscow’s ruling dynasty: Dmitry Donskoy, Vasily I (Vytautas’s son-in-law), Vasily II (his grandson).
	Čartoriskiai (Czartoryski)	Volhynian princes, probably descended from Konstantinas; the killers of Žygimantas in 1440.