#jadwiga andegaweńska

[polishdynasty]

“The Queen was the ornament of the clergy, the dew for the poor, the pillar of the Church, the graciousness for the dignitaries, the tender protector of citizens, the mother of the poor, the escape for the paupers, the defender of orphans, the anchor for the weak, the protector of all her subjects” — Stanisław of Skalbmierz in his eulogium

Jadwiga of Poland died 17th July 1399 from complications following her daughter's birth.

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[imobsessedwiththeatre]

Shes the reason im proud to be polish-

Total boss bitch

[polishwomenartists-sztukakobiet]

Jadwiga Andegaweńska, również królowa Jadwiga (ur. między 3 października 1373 a 18 lutego 1374 w Budzie, zm. 17 lipca 1399 w Krakowie) – królowa Polski z dynastii Andegawenów, córka Ludwika Węgierskiego i Elżbiety Bośniaczki, w 1384 koronowana na króla Polski, pierwsza żona króla Władysława Jagiełły, apostołka Litwy, święta Kościoła katolickiego. Jedyny polski monarcha wyniesiony na ołtarze. Choć nie otrzymała oficjalnie tego tytułu, przez część wiernych Kościoła katolickiego czczona jest jako patronka Polski. Via Wikipedia

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[famousharmonyluminary]

Umiłowana przez naród cały...

Umiłowana przez naród cały, ty, która stoisz u początku czasów jagiellońskich, założycielko dynastii, fundatorko Uniwersytetu Jagiellońskiego w prastarym Krakowie, długo czekałaś na dzień twojej kanonizacji – mówił w czasie mszy kanonizacyjnej Jan Paweł II i podkreślił, że od chwili śmierci Jadwigi do włączenia jej do grona świętych minęło niemal sześćset lat. – Mijały lata i stulecia, i wydawało…

[rulers-of-poland-tournament]

THE GRAND FINAL

This is it - the final, definitive poll for 2nd and 1st place. May the best-or-at-least-most-fondly-remembered ruler win!

[name-s-are-not-important]

Since you got so many postive reactions, I'll also add something Your story is boring. Its too long, its too complicated, the plot is too long, nothing happens, it's not RA at all any more, it has nothing to do with canon! Halt is a joke, there is nothing left of him. This is annoying, the whole story is annoying! Secondly, you dramatize the story too much. Why is Halt's mother a child when she gave birth to him? Don't you have enough angst from the plot, then you have to add such elements and make the king a pedo? A bit pathetic, if you ask me. Why is she so young? Why would Caitlyn be married so young? Nobody did that in the canon! Second, why, for God's sake, is everyone there gay? In the Middle Ages? What's that supposed to be? Third, you don't respect your own readers. You post new chapters without any rhythm, once every week, once every month, instead of sticking to any routine. People don't want to read something so inconsistent, it's stupid, it's annoying. Oh and all those references to Catholicism in the plot in and your made up religion. Is it really necessary?

It's a shame, because this could have been a really cool story… you still have a lot to learn, good luck!

Hello, I would say thanks for contacting, but then it would probably sound ironic. Well.

I understand that the pace of the story may not suit everyone, especially people who prefer short stories. However, I made it clear from the outset that the story would be long and complex. It's a whole AU and yes, I love worldbuilding and I won't apologise for that. I care about the details, but I also care about a balanced sinusoid of action. This isn't an action movie where you'll eat popcorn and laugh at the jokes, it's a marathon geared towards experiencing the story a little deeper. If it annoys you, I'm not sure why you don't just give up reading it…. you refer to the facts revealed in recent chapters, so you've at least made it to chapter 41, even though the story annoys you so much. Why? And why should it be my fault?

Let the numbers speak for me. Jadwiga Andegaweńska, King of Poland, married Władysław Jagiełło, Grand Duke of Lithuania, at the age of 12. He was 35 years old at the time. He took his last wife at the age of 70. She was named Zofia Holszańska, she was 17. Henry VIII of England took Catherine Howard as his wife when she was 17. He was 49. The youngest queen consort was Isabella of Valois, second wife of Richard II, aged 6 years 11 months and 25 days when she was married to him in 1396. The average age at which women were given in marriage in the Middle Ages was 12-14 years. It was only at the end of this era that this age changed to the late teens (16-19). The Renaissance brought a shift in this average to the early 20s. Yes, I am aware that we do not have such situations in the canon. Probably because the canon is a conglomeration of several different visions of the Middle Ages, which the author did not see fit to separate. Armaments, schooling, lack of illiteracy, developed medicine and finally, social realities all disagree. I am sorry to have to tell you this, but no princess married a plebeian knight because he was nice and she loved him. No princess ran around in the woods with a slingshot and none of them was likely to be allowed to become a super secret special task soldier because her parents couldn't cope with her upbringing. Canon has nothing to do with historical reality. In many ways it also misses the mark with my story. It's a fanfic. It's just a story, invented by me and loosely based on canon. It's AU - Alternative Universe. Where there's magic, religious wars and various things like that. But some of the stuff in there comes as a result of my fascination with history and the development of societies in different eras. Hence, certain phenomena, such as just the treatment of women, the age at which they were given in marriage, illiteracy, pestilence, economic dualism and sending children to war, appear in the storyline. Eileen is a monument to women, girls who were given in marriage to bear children to kings, to endure their outbursts of anger, beatings, rape and other forms of violence. Her story is very important to me and no, it is not there just to add drama. I'm sorry you see it that way.

Because we are human, we have always existed and we will always exist. Because it is a story written by a queer person and because as an author I can do so. I also pointed this out in the tags. Too many queer people reading books couldn't find themselves in the plot. I only write queer stories. And if in a story about blood magic, prophecies, human sacrifice, violence, wars and betrayals, you have the biggest problem to a few queer people in the plot, it's no longer my fault.

Listen, I'm really trying not to be mean. Let me say this as gently as I can. I'm not your friend. I'm a random stranger on the internet that you know nothing about. I'm not your school mate for you to talk to me like that. I'm an adult, I work full time, I'm writing my Master's thesis and I'm taking care of two children. I'm sorry that my few hours a week that I can spend doing something for myself, are not enough for me to write a 16-19k chapter once a week. How annoying and mean of me. Wow.

I wasn't inspired by Catholicism. But it's interesting that of all the world religions, this is the one that came to your mind. If you associate a fictional religion based on blood sacrificing, heroising self-harm and sacrificing children, cruelty to captives and hateful contempt for women with Catholicism, then who am I to argue.

It's been so much fun writing to you. And you don't offend me by saying I have a lot to learn. We all have. If one stops learning, one dies. And I still have a whole lot of queer, boring, annoying stories to write. Have a lovely day! And may your toilet seat be cold af at the middle of the night :)

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Aleksander Augustynowicz - Queen Jadwiga Andegaweńska (ca. 1925)

[madoka335]

Silly Game Time: Who's a historical figure you would high-five, and why?

Jadwiga Andegaweńska. She was a king of Poland before she married Jagiełło.

As I remember they both were kings of the country, but I'm not sure if I didn't mess it up because of the "Korona Królów" ("Crown of King's") serial that was emitted on TV and I guess it is on the internet.

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Obsessed with you translating serving cunt as "serwował pizde" in your tags on the copernicus vs jadwiga andegaweńska poll

no a jak!!!!

[polishdynasty]

“One day, Queen Jadwiga returning with her entourage from a walk outside the town, passed by the church on Piascus that was being build. She noticed that one of the workers working on stone cutting was very sad and wiping constantly his tears. The Queen asked him what happened. He replied that he had a seriously ill wife and he doesn't have enough money to get a doctor to see her. The Queen promised to help him and before she left, she put her foot on a stone, unfastened the gold buckle from her shoe and gave it to the man. When the worker grabbed the hammer to continue chipping the stone, he saw an imprint of a human foot on it. He called the rest of the workers and they all watched in amazement as the foot of the merciful queen was imprinted in the hard stone. Together they hewed the stone and embedded it in the church' wall.”

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Jadwiga Andegaweńska. Król Polski (KLCW)

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POLAND - banknote from the set: poczet królów polskich, only 50 pcs issued for collectors, queen Jadwiga Andegaweńska.