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Jadwiga;1373 or 1374 – 17 July 1399), also known as Hedwig, was the first woman to becrowned as monarch of the Kingdom of Poland. She reigned from 16 October 1384until her death. She was the youngest daughter of Louis the Great, King ofHungary and Poland, and his wife, Elizabeth of Bosnia. Jadwiga was a member ofthe Capetian House of Anjou, but she had more close forebears among the PolishPiasts than among the Angevins.

In 1375,it was planned that when becoming old enough, she would marry William ofAustria and she lived in Vienna from 1378 to 1380. Jadwiga\'s father is oftenthought to have regarded her and William as his favoured successors in Hungaryafter the 1378 death of her eldest sister, Catherine, since the following yearthe Polish nobility had pledged their homage to Louis\' second daughter, Mary,and Mary\'s fiancé, Sigismund of Luxembourg. However, Louis died, and in 1382,at her mother\'s insistence, Mary was crowned \"King of Hungary\".Sigismund of Luxembourg tried to take control of Poland, but the Polishnobility countered that they would be obedient to a daughter of King Louis onlyif she settled in Poland.

QueenElizabeth then chose Jadwiga to reign in Poland, but did not send her to Krakówto be crowned. During the interregnum, Siemowit IV, Duke of Masovia, became acandidate for the Polish throne. The nobility of Greater Poland favored him andproposed that he marry Jadwiga. However, Lesser Poland\'s nobility opposed him,and they persuaded Queen Elizabeth to send Jadwiga to Poland.

Jadwigawas crowned king in Poland\'s capital, Kraków, on 16 October 1384. Hercoronation either reflected the Polish nobility\'s opposition to her intendedhusband, William, becoming king without further negotiation, or simply,emphasized her status as the monarch. With her mother\'s consent, Jadwiga\'sadvisors opened negotiations with Jogaila, Grand Duke of Lithuania, who wasstill a pagan, concerning his potential marriage to Jadwiga. Jogaila signed theUnion of Krewo, pledging to convert to Catholicism and to promote conversion ofhis pagan subjects. Meanwhile, William hastened to Kraków, hoping to marry hischildhood fiancé, Jadwiga, but in late August 1385 the Polish nobles expelledhim.

Jogaila,who took the Catholic baptismal name Władysław, married Jadwiga on 15 February1386. Legend says that she had agreed to marry him only after lengthy prayer,seeking divine inspiration. Jogaila, now styled in Polish as, WładysławJagiełło, was crowned King of Poland on 4 March 1386 as Jadwiga\'s co-ruler.Jogaila worked closely with his wife in that role. In any case, her realpolitical power was limited.

Sheremained passive when the rebellious nobles of the Kingdom of Hungary-Croatiamurdered her mother in early 1387. After that, Jadwiga marched into the Kingdomof Galicia–Volhynia, which had been under Hungarian rule, and persuaded most ofthe inhabitants to become subjects of the Polish Crown. She mediated betweenher husband\'s quarreling kin and between Poland and the Teutonic Order.

After hersister Mary died in 1395, Jadwiga and Jogaila laid claim to Hungary against thewidowed Sigismund of Luxembourg, but the Hungarian lords did not support theirclaim and Sigismund easily retained his Hungarian throne. Jadwiga died fouryears later due to postpartum complications.

In 1997,Jadwiga was canonized by the Catholic Church.

Jadwigawas born in Buda, the capital of the Kingdom of Hungary. She was the third andyoungest daughter of Louis I, King of Hungary and Poland, and his second wife,Elizabeth of Bosnia. Both her grandmothers were Polish princesses, connectingher to the native Piast dynasty of Poland. Historian Oscar Halecki concludedthat Jadwiga\'s \"genealogical tree clearly shows that [she] had more Polishblood than any other\". She was probably born between 3 October 1373 and 18February 1374. She was named after her distant ancestor, Saint Hedwig ofSilesia, who was especially venerated in the Hungarian royal court at the timeof her birth.

KingLouis, who had not fathered any sons, wanted to ensure the right of hisdaughters to inherit his realms.Therefore, European royals regarded his threedaughters as especially attractive brides. Leopold III, Duke of Austria,proposed his eldest son, William, to Jadwiga already on 18 August 1374. Theenvoys of the Polish nobles acknowledged that one of Louis\'s daughters wouldsucceed him in Poland after he confirmed and extended their liberties in thePrivilege of Koszyce on 17 September 1374. They took an oath of loyalty toCatherine on Louis\'s demand.

Louisagreed to give Jadwiga in marriage to William of Austria on 4 March 1375. Thechildren\'s sponsalia de futuro, or \"provisional marriage\", wascelebrated at Hainburg on 15 June 1378. The ceremony established the legalframework for the consummation of the marriage without any furtherecclesiastical act as soon as they both reached the age of maturity. DukeLeopold agreed that Jadwiga would only receive Treviso, a town that was to beconquered from the Republic of Venice, as dowry from her father. After theceremony, Jadwiga stayed in Austria for almost two years; she mainly lived inVienna.

Catherinedied in late 1378.[3] Louis persuaded the most influential Polish lords toswear an oath of loyalty to her younger sister, Mary, in September1379.[13][18] She was betrothed to Sigismund of Luxemburg,[15] a great-grandsonof Casimir the Great, who had been Louis\'s predecessor on the Polishthrone.[19] The \"promised marriage\" of Jadwiga and William wasconfirmed at their fathers\' meeting in Zólyom (now Zvolen in Slovakia) on 12February 1380.[20][21] Hungarian lords also approved the document, implyingthat Jadwiga and William were regarded as her father\'s successors inHungary.[22]

Adelegation of the Polish lords and clergy paid formal homage to Sigismund ofLuxemburg as their future king on 25 July 1382. The Poles believed that Louisplanned also to persuade the Hungarian lords and prelates to accept Jadwiga andWilliam of Austria as his heirs in Hungary. However, he died on 10 September1382. Jadwiga was present at her father\'s death bed.

Jadwiga\'ssister, Mary, was crowned king of Hungary five days after their father\'s death.With the ceremony, their ambitious mother secured the right to govern Hungaryon her twelve-year-old daughter\'s behalf instead of Mary\'s fiancé, Sigismund.Sigismund could not be present at Mary\'s coronation, because Louis had sent himto Poland to crush a rebellion. After he learnt of Louis\'s death, he adoptedthe title \"Lord of the Kingdom of Poland\", demanding oaths of loyaltyfrom the towns in Lesser Poland. On 25 November, the nobles of Greater Polandassembled at Radomsko and decided to obey nobody but the daughter of the lateking as she would settle in Poland. On their initiative, the noblemen of LesserPoland passed a similar agreement in Wiślica on 12 December. Queen Elizabethsent her envoys to the assembled lords and forbade them to swear an oath ofloyalty to anyone other than one of her daughters, thus invalidating the oathof loyalty that the Polish noblemen had sworn to Sigismund on the late KingLouis\'s demand.

BothElizabeth\'s daughters had been engaged to foreign princes (Sigismund andWilliam, respectively) unpopular in Poland. Polish lords who were opposed to aforeign monarch regarded the members of the Piast dynasty as possiblecandidates to the Polish throne. Queen Elizabeth\'s uncle Władysław the Whitehad already attempted to seize Poland during Louis\'s reign. However, he hadtaken monastic vows and settled in a Benedictine abbey in Dijon in Burgundy.Antipope Clement VII, whom King Louis had refused to recognize against PopeUrban VI, released Władysław from his vows, but he did not leave his monastery.Meanwhile, Siemowit IV, Duke of Masovia, appeared as a more ambitiouscandidate. He was especially popular among the nobility and townspeople ofGreater Poland.

QueenElizabeth\'s representatives released the Poles from their oath of fidelity thattheir representatives had sworn to Mary at an assembly in Sieradz in February1383. The envoys also announced that she was willing to send Jadwiga to becrowned instead, on condition that she return to Buda after her coronation tolive there until her twelfth birthday. The Polish lords accepted the proposal,but they soon realized that thereby the interregnum would be extended by afurther three years. At a new meeting in Sieradz, most noblemen were ready toelect Siemowit of Masovia king on 28 March. They proposed that Siemowit shouldmarry Jadwiga. A member of the influential Tęczyński family, Jan, convincedthem to postpone Siemowit\'s election. The noblemen agreed to wait for Jadwigauntil 10 May, stipulating that she was to live in Poland after her coronation.They also demanded that Dobrzyń and Gniewków (two fiefdoms which her father hadgranted to Vladislaus II of Opole), and \"Ruthenia\" (that had passedto Hungary in accordance with a previous treaty) be restored to the PolishCrown.

Meanwhile,Jan Tęczyński and his allies, including Sędziwój Pałuka, seem to have startednegotiations with Jogaila, Grand Duke of Lithuania. Siemowit\'s supportershowever, tried to enter Kraków in the retinue of Bodzanta, Archbishop ofGniezno, in May, but the townspeople closed the gates of the city before theirarrival. Jadwiga had not arrived in Poland by the stipulated date (10 May). Hermother\'s envoys stated that the spring floods had hindered Jadwiga\'s progressover the Carpathian Mountains.

Siemowitof Mazovia took up arms and advanced as far as Kalisz. His supporters assembledin Sieradz in August in order to elect him king, but Archbishop Bodzantarefused to perform his coronation. In a meeting in Kassa, Queen Elizabethpromised the delegates of the Polish provinces to send Jadwiga to Poland beforeNovember. The queen mother and the Poles also agreed that if either Jadwiga orMary died childless, her kingdom would pass to her surviving sister. Siemowithaving laid siege to Kalisz, Queen Elizabeth sent Sigismund of Luxemburg at thehead of an \"improvised army\" to Lesser Poland. Siemowit failed totake Kalisz, but news about the appalling behaviour of Sigismund\'s soldiersincreased Sigismund\'s unpopularity in Poland. Sędziwój Pałuka, who was thecastellan of Kalisz and starosta of Kraków, led a delegation to Zadar inDalmatia to negotiate with Queen Elizabeth, but she had him imprisoned instead.She sent Hungarian soldiers to Poland to garrison them in Wawel Castle inKraków, but Pałuka escaped and successfully obstructed her soldiers enteringthe castle.

At ageneral assembly in Radomsko in early March, the delegates of all the Polishprovinces and towns decided to elect Siemowit king, if Jadwiga did not come toPoland within two months. They set up a provisional government, stipulatingthat only the \"community of lords and citizens\" had the authority toadminister Poland during the interregnum. Queen Elizabeth, who was onlyinformed of the decision by an informal message, realized that she could notany longer postpone Jadwiga\'s coronation and so sent her to Poland. The exactdate of Jadwiga\'s arrival is unknown, because the main source for the historyof Poland during this period – Jan of Czarnków\'s chronicle – ended prior tothis event.

Theinterregnum that followed Louis\'s death and caused such internal strife came toan end with Jadwiga\'s arrival in Poland.[47][48] A large crowd of clerics,noblemen and burghers gathered at Kraków \"to greet her with a display ofaffection\", according to the 15th-century Polish historian, Jan Długosz.Nobody protested when Archbishop Bodzanta crowned her on 16 October 1384.According to traditional scholarly consensus, Jadwiga was crowned king.Thereby, as Robert W. Knoll proposes, the Polish lords prevented her eventualspouse from adopting the same title without their consent. Stephen C. Rowell,who says that sources that contradict the traditional view outnumber thoseverifying it, suggests that sporadic contemporaneous references to Jadwiga asking only reflect that she was not a queen consort, but a queen regnant.

Bodzanta,Archbishop of Gniezno, Jan Radlica, Bishop of Kraków, Dobrogost of Nowy Dwór,Bishop of Poznań, and Duke Vladislaus II of Opole were Jadwiga\'s most trustedadvisers during the first years of her reign. According to a widely acceptedscholarly theory, Jadwiga, who was still a minor, was \"a mere tool\"to her advisers. However, Halecki refutes this view, contending that Jadwigamatured quickly and her personality, especially her charm and kindness, onlyserved to strengthen her position.[54] Already in late 1384 she intervened onDuke Vladislaus\'s behalf to reconcile him with her mother\'s favourite, NicholasI Garai.

ThePolish lords did not want to accept Jadwiga\'s fourteen-year-old fiancé, Williamof Habsburg, as their sovereign. They thought that the inexperienced Williamand his Austrian kinsmen could not safeguard Poland\'s interests against itspowerful neighbors, especially the Luxemburgs which controlled Bohemia andBrandenburg, and had a strong claim on Hungary.[58][59] According to Halecki,the lords of Lesser Poland were the first to suggest that Jadwiga should marrythe pagan duke Jogaila of Lithuania.

Jogailasent his envoys – including his brother, Skirgaila, and a German burgher fromRiga, Hanul – to Kraków to request Jadwiga\'s hand in January 1385. Jadwigarefused to answer, stating only that her mother would decide. Jogaila\'s twoenvoys left for Hungary and met Queen Elizabeth.[62][63] She informed them that\"she would allow whatever was advantageous to Poland and insisted that herdaughter and the prelates and nobles of the Kingdom had to do what theyconsidered would benefit Christianity and their kingdom\", according to JanDługosz\'s chronicle.[65] The nobles from Kraków, Sandomierz and Greater Polandassembled in Kraków in June or July and the \"majority of the moresensible\" voted for the acceptance of Jogaila\'s marriage proposal.

In themeantime, William\'s father, Leopold III hurried to Buda in late July 1385,demanding the consummation of the marriage between William and Jadwiga before16 August. Queen Elizabeth confirmed the previous agreements about themarriage, ordering Vladislaus II of Opole to make preparations for theceremony. According to canon law, Jadwiga\'s marriage sacrament could only becompleted before her twelfth birthday if the competent prelate testified herprecocious maturity. Demetrius, Archbishop of Esztergom, issued the necessarydocument. William went to Kraków in the first half of August, but his entry toWawel Castle was barred. Długosz states that Jadwiga and William would only beable to meet in the nearby Franciscan convent.

Contemporaryor nearly contemporaneous records of the completion of the marriage betweenWilliam and Jadwiga are contradictory and unclear. The official accounts of themunicipal authorities of Kraków record that on 23 August 1385 an amnesty wasgranted to the prisoners in the city jail on the occasion of the celebration ofthe Queen\'s marriage. On the other hand, a contemporary Austrian chronicle, theContinuatio Claustroneubuzgis states that the Poles had tried to murder Williambefore he consummated the marriage. In the next century, Długosz states thatWilliam was \"removed in a shameful and offensive manner and driven fromthe castle\" after he entered \"the Queen\'s bedchamber\"; but thesame chronicler also mentions that Jadwiga was well aware that \"manypeople knew that ... she had for a fortnight shared her bed with Duke Williamand that there had been physical consummation\".

On thenight when William entered the queen\'s bedchamber, a group of Polish noblemenbroke into the castle, forcing William to flee, according to Długosz. Afterthis humiliation, Długosz continues, Jadwiga decided to leave Wawel and joinWilliam, but the gate of the castle was locked. She called for \"an axe and[tried] to break it open\", but Dymitr of Goraj convinced her to return tothe castle. Oscar Halecki says that Długosz\'s narrative \"cannot bedismissed as a romantic legend\"; Robert I. Frost writes that it is a\"tale, almost certainly apocryphal\".[68] There is no doubt, however,that William of Austria was forced to leave Poland.

Jogailasigned the Union of Krewo in August 1385, promising Queen Elizabeth\'srepresentatives and the Polish lords\' envoys that he would convert toCatholicism, together with his pagan kinsmen and subjects, if Jadwiga marriedhim.[81][82] He also pledged to pay 200,000 florins to William of Habsburg incompensation. William never accepted it. Two days after the Union of Krewo, theTeutonic Knights invaded Lithuania.

TheAeltere Hochmeisterchronik and other chronicles written in the Knights\'territory accused the Polish prelates and lords of forcing Jadwiga to acceptJogaila\'s offer. According to a Polish legend, Jadwiga agreed to marry Jogailadue to divine inspiration during her long prayers before a crucifix in WawelCathedral. Siemowit IV of Mazovia resigned his claim to Poland in December.

ThePolish lords\' envoys informed Jogaila that they would obey him if he marriedJadwiga on 11 January 1386.[87][88] Jogaila went to Lublin where a generalassembly unanimously declared him \"king and lord of Poland\" in earlyFebruary. Jogaila went on to Kraków where he was baptized, receiving theChristian name, Władysław, in Wawel Cathedral on 15 February.[80][92] Threedays later, 35-year-old Władysław-Jogaila married 12-year-old Jadwiga.[93][92]Władysław-Jogaila styled himself as dominus et tutor regni Poloniae (\"lordand guardian of the Kingdom of Poland\") in his first charter issued afterthe marriage.

ArchbishopBodzanta crowned Władysław-Jogaila king on 4 March 1386.[86] Poland wastransformed into a diarchy – a kingdom ruled over by two sovereigns.[94]Jadwiga and her husband did not speak a common language, but they cooperatedclosely in their marriage.[89] She accompanied him to Greater Poland to appeasethe local lords who were still hostile to him. The royal visit caused damage tothe peasants who lived in the local prelates\' domains, but Jadwiga persuadedher husband to compensate them, saying: \"We have, indeed, returned thepeasants\' cattle, but who can repair their tears?\", according to Długosz\'schronicle. A court record of her order to the judges in favor of a peasant alsoshows that she protected the poor.

PopeUrban VI sent his legate, Maffiolus de Lampugnano, to Kraków to enquire aboutthe marriage of the royal couple. Lampugnano did not voice any objections, butthe Teutonic Knights started a propaganda campaign in favour of William ofHabsburg. Queen Elizabeth pledged to assist Władysław-Jogaila against hisenemies on 9 June 1386, but Hungary had sunken into anarchy. A group ofSlavonian lords captured and imprisoned Jadwiga\'s mother and sister on 25 July.The rebels murdered Queen Elizabeth in January 1387. A month later, Jadwigamarched at the head of Polish troops to Ruthenia where all but one of thegovernors submitted to her without opposition.

DukeVladislaus of Opole also had a claim on Ruthenia but could not convince KingWenceslaus of Germany to intervene on his behalf. Jadwiga confirmed theprivileges of the local inhabitants and promised that Ruthenia would neveragain be separated from the Polish Crown. After the reinforcements thatWładysław-Jogaila sent from Lithuania arrived in August, Halych, the onlyfortress to resist, also surrendered. Władysław-Jogaila also came to Rutheniain September. Voivode Petru II of Moldavia visited the royal couple and paidhomage to them in Lviv on 26 September. Władysław-Jogaila confirmed theprivileges that Jadwiga had granted the Ruthenians in October. She alsoinstructed her subjects to show the same respect for her husband as forherself: in a letter addressed to the burghers of Kraków in late 1387, shestated that her husband was their \"natural lord\".

OnWilliam\'s demand, Pope Urban VI initiated a new investigation about themarriage of Jadwiga and Władysław-Jogaila. They sent Bishop Dobrogost of Poznańto Rome to inform the pope of the Christianization of Lithuania.[108] In hisletter to Bishop Dobrogost, Pope Urban jointly mentioned the royal couple inMarch 1388, which implied that he had already acknowledged the legality oftheir marriage. However, Gniewosz of Dalewice, who had been William ofHabsburg\'s supporter, spread rumours about secret meetings between William andJadwiga in the royal castle. Jadwiga took a solemn oath before Jan Tęczyński,stating that she had only had marital relations with Władysław-Jogaila. Afterall witnesses confirmed her oath, Gniewosz of Dalewice confessed that he hadlied. She did not take vengeance on him.

Negotiationsbetween Sigismund and the Grand Master of the Teutonic Knights, Konrad vonWallenrode, continued with the mediation of Vladislaus of Opole. However,Hungary\'s southern border was exposed to Ottoman incursions, preventingSigismund from taking military measures against Poland. Wallenrode died on 25July 1393. His successor, Konrad von Jungingen, opened negotiations with thePoles. During the discussions, Pope Boniface IX\'s legate, John of Messina,supported the Poles.

Jadwigawas a skilful mediator, famed for her impartiality and intelligence. She wentto Lithuania to reconcile her brother-in-law, Skirgaila, with Vytautas inOctober 1393. Relations between Poland and Hungary remained tense. Sigismundinvaded Moldavia, forcing Stephen I of Moldavia to accept his suzerainty in1394. Soon after the Hungarian troops left Moldavia, Stephen sent his envoys toJadwiga and Jogaila, promising to assist Poland against Hungary, the OttomanEmpire and the Teutonic Knights.

On 17 May1395, Mary died after a riding accident. According to the 1383 agreementbetween their mother and the Polish lords, Jadwiga was her childless sister\'sheir in Hungary. Vlad I of Wallachia, a Hungarian vassal, issued an act ofsubmission on 28 May, acknowledging Jadwiga and her husband as Mary\'slegitimate successors. The widowed king\'s close supporter, Stibor of Stiboricz,expelled Vlad from Wallachia. Władysław-Jogaila gathered his troops on thePolish-Hungarian border, but Eustache Jolsvai [hu], Palatine of Hungary, andJohn Kanizsai [hu], Archbishop of Esztergom, stopped his invasion of Hungary.In September, Konrad von Jungingen told the prince-electors of the Holy RomanEmpire that the union of Poland, Lithuania, and Hungary under Władysław-Jogaila\'srule would endanger Christendom. However, most of Sigismund\'s opponents, whowere especially numerous in Croatia, supported the claim of Ladislaus ofNaples, the last male member of the Capetian House of Anjou. On 8 September,the most influential Hungarian lords declared that they would not support anychange in government while Sigismund was far from Hungary fighting against theOttoman Turks. Before the end of the year, peace negotiations between therepresentatives of Hungary and Poland ended with an agreement. Jadwiga adoptedthe title \"heir to Hungary\", but she and her husband took no furtheraction against Sigismund.

Therelationship between Lithuania and the Teutonic Knights remained tense. Jadwigaand her Polish advisers invited the Grand Master, Konrad von Jungingen, toPoland to open new negotiations in June 1396. Conflicts with Vladislaus ofOpole and Siemowit of Masovia, who had not given up their claims to parts ofRuthenia and Cuyavia, also intensified. To demonstrate that the territorieswere under Jadwiga\'s direct control, Władysław-Jogaila granted the Duchy ofBelz (in Ruthenia) and Cuyavia to her in early 1397. However, Jadwiga and herPolish advisers wanted to avoid a war with the Teutonic Order. In response,Władysław-Jogaila replaced most Polish \"starostas\" (aldermen) inRuthenia with local Orthodox noblemen. According to German sources, Władysław-Jogailaand Vytautas jointly asked Pope Boniface IX to sanction Vytautas\' coronation asking of Lithuania and Ruthenia.

Jadwigaand Jungingen met in Włocławek in the middle of June, but they did not reach acompromise. The Teutonic Order entrusted Vladislaus of Opole with the task ofrepresenting their claims to Dobrzyń against Jadwiga. Jadwiga and her husbandmet Sigismund of Hungary, who had returned there after his catastrophic defeatin the Battle of Nicopolis, on 14 July. They seem to have reached a compromise,because Sigismund offered to mediate between Poland, Lithuania and the TeutonicKnights. On Jadwiga\'s request, Wenceslaus of Bohemia granted permission for theestablishment of a college for Lithuanian students in Prague on 20 July 1397.Jadwiga, who had spent \"many sleepless nights\" thinking of thisproject, according to herself, issued a charter of establishment for thecollege on 10 November.

Sheopened new negotiations with the Teutonic Knights, but Konrad von Jungingendispatched a simple knight to meet her in May 1398.[138] Władysław-Jogaila\'scousin Vytautas also entered into negotiations with the Teutonic Knightsbecause he wanted to unite Lithuania and Ruthenia under his rule and to receivea royal crown from the Holy See. According to the chronicle of John of Posilge,who was an official of the Teutonic Order, Jadwiga sent a letter to Vytautas,reminding him to pay the annual tribute that Władysław-Jogaila had granted heras dower. Offended by Jadwiga\'s demand, Vytautas sought the opinion of theLithuanian and Ruthenian lords who refused Jadwiga\'s claim to a tribute. On 12October 1398, he signed a peace treaty with the Teutonic Knights, withoutreferring to Władysław-Jogaila\'s right to confirm it. Oscar Halecki says thatPosilge\'s \"sensational story\" is either an invention based on gossipor a guess by the chronicler.

Jadwigawas childless for over a decade, which, according to chronicles written in theTeutonic lands, caused conflicts between her and her husband. She becamepregnant in late 1398 or early 1399. Sigismund, King of Hungary, came to Krakówin early March to negotiate for a campaign to defend Wallachia against theOttoman Turks. Vytautas, in order to bolster his authority over the Rus\'principalities, decided to launch an expedition against Timur, who had subduedthe Golden Horde. According to Jan Długosz\'s chronicle, Jadwiga warned thePolish noblemen not to join Vytautas\' campaign because it would end infailure.[145] Halecki says that the great number of Polish knights who joinedVytautas\'s expedition proves that Długosz\'s report is not reliable.

On theoccasion of the expected birth to the royal couple, Jogaila\'s cousin Vytautas,Grand Duke of Lithuania, sent expensive gifts, including a silver cradle, tothe royal court on behalf of himself and his wife, Anna. The first horoscopeswritten for Jadwiga\'s and Jogaila\'s child predicted a son in mid-September1398. However, a girl was delivered on 22 June 1399 at Wawel Castle. Reports ofthe time stated that the child was born prematurely.[149] According to thehoroscope, she was actually born slightly late. However, a due date of 18 Junewould rule out the suspicion of pregnancy as early as mid-September.

Thenewborn princess was named Elizabeth Bonifacia (Polish: Elżbieta Bonifacja,Lithuanian: Elżbieta Bonifacija), after Jadwiga\'s mother and Pope Boniface IXwho, in a letter of 5 May 1399, had agreed to be godfather under the conditionthat the infant be called Boniface or Bonifacia. She was baptised by Piotr WyszRadoliński, Bishop of Kraków. However, the infant died after only three weeks,on 13 July 1399. Jadwiga, too, was on her deathbed. Stanisław of Skarbimierzexpressed hope that she would survive, describing her as the spiritual motherof the poor, weak, and ill of Poland.[153] She advised her husband to marryAnna of Cilli, Casimir the Great\'s granddaughter—which he did—and died on 17July 1399, four days after her newborn daughter.

Jadwigaand her daughter were buried together in Wawel Cathedral, on 24 August 1399, asstipulated in the Queen\'s last will. On 12 July 1949, 550 years later, theirtomb was opened; nothing remained of the child\'s soft cartilage.

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