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Article: Władysław Ii Jagiełło (Poland) (Lithuanian: Jogaila; c. 1351
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(Lithuanian: Jogaila; c. 1351
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1434), grand duke of Lithuania (1377
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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
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stutis, with whom he had ruled jointly, and assumed full power in Lithuania; he later had K
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stutis murdered. That same year, threatened by the Order of Teutonic Knights, he concluded an armistice with them on the Dubysa River, in which ...