Article: Władysław Ii Jagiełło (Poland) (Lithuanian: Jogaila; c. 1351
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W Ł ADYS Ł AW II JAGIE Ł Ł O (POLAND) (Lithuanian: Jogaila; c. 1351 1434)

W Ł ADYS Ł AW II JAGIE Ł Ł O (POLAND) (Lithuanian: Jogaila; c. 1351 1434), grand duke of Lithuania (1377 1401) and king of Poland (1386 1434); son of Grand Duke Algirdas of Lithuania (d. 1375) and Yuliana, princess of Tver; and founder of the Jagiellon dynasty in Poland. In 1382 Jogaila imprisoned his uncle K ê stutis, with whom he had ruled jointly, and assumed full power in Lithuania; he later had K ê stutis murdered. That same year, threatened by the Order of Teutonic Knights, he concluded an armistice with them on the Dubysa River, in which ...

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