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Group: Holy, or Catholic, League, the (French)
People: Juan José Elhuyar
Topic: Russo-Polish War of 1654-67
Location: Giovinazzo Puglia Italy

Twelve-year-old Queen Jadwiga (Hedwig), in an arranged …

Years: 1386 - 1386

Twelve-year-old Queen Jadwiga (Hedwig), in an arranged union engineered by the Polish nobility in 1386, marries Ladislas Jogaila, the thirty-something grand duke of Lithuania, who is baptized a Latin Christian and crowned king of Poland as Wladyslaw II (or V) Jagiellio.

Poland and Lithuania are thus informally united.