Polish Roman Catholic Saints - Jadwiga of Poland, Adalbert of Prague, Maximilian Kolbe, Otto of Bamberg, Hedwig of Andechs, Richeza of Lotharingia, S (Paperback)

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 37. Chapters: Jadwiga of Poland, Adalbert of Prague, Maximilian Kolbe, Otto of Bamberg, Hedwig of Andechs, Richeza of Lotharingia, Saint Casimir, Andrew Bobola, Ladislaus I of Hungary, Stanislaus Kostka, Mary Faustina Kowalska, Stanislaus of Szczepanow, Raphael Kalinowski, Josaphat Kuntsevych, Marcelina Darowska, John Cantius, Kinga of Poland, Saint Hyacinth, Jozef Bilczewski, Albert Chmielowski, Ursula Ledochowska, Ceslaus, List of saints of Poland, John Sarkander, John of Dukla, Zygmunt Gorazdowski, Szymon of Lipnica, Svorad. Excerpt: Jadwiga (1373/4 - 17 July 1399) was monarch of Poland from 1384 to her death. Her official title was 'king' rather than 'queen', reflecting that she was a sovereign in her own right and not merely a royal consort. She was a member of the Capetian House of Anjou, the daughter of King Louis I of Hungary and Elizabeth of Bosnia. She is known in Polish as Jadwiga, in English and German as Hedwig, in Lithuanian as Jadvyga, in Hungarian as Hedvig, and in Latin as Hedvigis. Queens regnant being relatively uncommon in Europe at the time, Jadwiga was officially crowned a King. She is venerated by the Roman Catholic Church as Saint Hedwig, where she is the patron saint of queens and a United Europe. Jadwiga was the youngest daughter of Louis I of Hungary and of Elizabeth of Bosnia. Jadwiga could claim descent from the House of Piast, the ancient native Polish dynasty on both her mother's and her father's side. Her paternal grandmother Elisabeth of Cuyavia was the daughter of King W adys aw I the Elbow-high, who had reunited Poland in 1320. Jadwiga was brought up at the royal court in Buda and Visegrad, Hungary. In 1378, she was betrothed (sponsalia de futuro) to Habsburg scion William of Austria, and spent about a year at the imperial court in Vienna, Austria. Jadwiga's father Louis had, in 1364 in...