Władysław II Jagiełło
Jogaila crowned king of Poland as Władysław II Jagiełło
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Original prompt & settings (JSON) ↗Seventeen days before he received the Polish crown, Jogaila was still an unbaptised ruler. Baptism, marriage and coronation followed one another inside three weeks.
4 March 1386, at Wawel Cathedral
At Wawel Cathedral in Kraków on 4 March 1386, Bodzanta, archbishop of Gniezno, crowned the Lithuanian grand duke Jogaila king of Poland as Władysław Jagiełło.
Bodzanta had also taken part in the baptism and the marriage that preceded it. Jogaila was probably about 24.
Three ceremonies in eighteen days
The coronation closed a rapid accession sequence: baptism on 15 February, marriage to the reigning Queen Jadwiga on 18 February, crown on 4 March.
Polish elites had confirmed his selection at Lublin, and the baptism and marriage satisfied the immediate religious and dynastic conditions for kingship.
His baptismal name, Władysław, deliberately recalled Władysław Łokietek, the Piast ruler remembered for reuniting the Polish kingdom.
Poland now had two crowned rulers
Jadwiga had been crowned in 1384 and kept her own royal authority; she did not become merely her husband's consort. By the end of the ceremony Poland had two crowned royal partners.
The coronation did not fuse Poland and Lithuania into a single state — that relationship developed through successive unions over generations — and Lithuania's organised Catholic conversion belongs mainly to Jogaila's 1387 mission there.
Both rulers' chanceries went on issuing documents.
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