Wladyslaw II Jagiello, Grand Duke of Lithuania and King of Poland, has joined two states that have become the leading power of eastern Europe.

In Poland, the nobility has strengthened its position, especially during the latter part of Wladyslaw's reign, and Wladyslaw has been unable to win the burghers to his side and use them politically as a counterweight to the nobles.

In questions of national religion the king has showed resoluteness, particularly in his attempt to suppress the Polish followers of Jan Hus.

Continually, he has played his hand cautiously: although he had supported the Hussites during the decade of the 1420s in their struggle against King Sigismund of Bohemia and Hungary, for example, he had refrained from intervention.

Wladyslaw, who dies on May 31/June 1, 1434, ends his reign with good relations between Poland and Hungary.

His eldest son, ten years old, succeeds him as Wladyslaw III.