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