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From: "John Yohalem" <>
Subject: Re: Carlos II _Ahnenreihe_
Date: Mon, 2 Aug 1999 19:59:31 -0400


>>> Anna Jagellonska, ceska a uherska princezna,
>>> dedicka ceske koruny,
>>> born: 23 Jul 1503, Budin, Cechy,
>>> died: 27 Jan 1547, Praha, Cechy
>
>RP

I gather that DSH objects to the practice in MOST countries of not
capitalizing adjectives, even when they are derived from national entities.
He can go stuff it. Why should French, Germans, Czechs, Hungarians or
Spaniards follow English rules in such things?

> "Ann the Jagiellonian, Czech and Hungarian princess,
> heiress of the Czech crown,
> born: 23 Jul 1503, Budin, Bohemia
> died: 27 Jan 1547, Prague, Bohemia"
>
>RP
>
>Not bad. Her Father, the King, was Vladislas II Jagiello, as I
>understand. From whence cometh the "Jagiello?" <g>

Has this one been answered yet?

Jagiello was the name of the Grand Duke (Knyaz) of Lithuania who married
Hedwig of Anjou, Queen of Poland and princess of Hungary and Naples, lately
canonized. During his fourth marriage (by which time he was Wladyslaw IV,
King of Poland and his cousin Vytautas was Grand Duke), to, I think, Sophie
of Rostov, he begot two sons, Wladyslaw "of Varna", King of Poland and
Hungary, killed by the Turks 1444, and Casimir IV, Grand Duke of Lithuania
and (after 1444) King of Poland. He married Elizabeth of Austria, daughter
of Duke Albert V, who had been Albert II of Germany, Hungary and Bohemia (d.
1439). Elizabeth's mother was Elizabeth (d. 1444) of Luxembourg, sole
daughter and heiress to the Holy Roman Emperor Sigismund (d. 1437), King of
Hungary (from 1386) and Bohemia (from 1419). Thus, after the death of
Elizabeth of Austria's brother, Ladislas Posthumous, in 1457, she was able
to transmit claims to these thrones to her six sons by Casimir. The eldest
of these was Vladislas Jagiello (it having become the dynastic name), (d.
1516) who became King of Bohemia in 1471 on the death of the elected king
Georg Podiebrad, and King of Hungary in 1490, on the death of Matthias
Hunyadi Corvinus. He married Anne of Foix-Candale (aka Kendal) for reasons
that I have never been able to discover -- what possible diplomatic
advantage could he have hoped to gain from an alliance with Navarre? Does
anyone know any of the details? Anyway: they had two children, Lajos (Louis)
II, King of Hungary and Bohemia (d.1526), and the abovementioned Anna
Jagiellonica, this latter being a surname. They were married to the
granddaughter and grandson of Emperor Maximilian I, to whit Maria (later
Regent of the Netherlands, d. 1558) and Ferdinand (later Emperor as
Ferdinand I, 1556-1564).

Thus Ferdinand's children were lineal descendants of four extinct dynasties:
Arpads of Hungary, Premyslids of Bohemia, Luxembourgs of wherever, and
Piasts of Poland, not to mention the Valois of Burgundy et al., the
Trastamaras of Spain and southern Italy, the Hohenzollerns and the Angeli of
Byzantium.

Jean Coeur de Lapin

John Yohalem


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