#king of poland

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Portrait of Stanislaus Augustus Poniatowski in Coronation Robes

Artist: Marcello Bacciarelli (Polish-Italian, 1731–1818)

Date: c. 1790

Medium: Oil paint on canvas

Collection: National Museum in Krakow, Poland

Stanisław August Poniatowski

Stanisław August [Stanislaus Augustus] Poniatowski was elected king of Poland in 1764. Especially at the beginning of his reign, he was neither very popular with the nobility nor as influential as his rich family, the Czartoryski Familia. Therefore, he needed a formal portrait emphasizing the special significance of his person as the king of Poland and strengthening the conviction about the lawfulness of his rule, actually assumed with the considerable support of Russia. Moreover, European courts, for example in Vienna and Versailles, were interested in possessing a portrait of the new Polish king. The newly elected monarch sought a talented portraitist, familiar with the latest trends in Western European art, who would be able to paint a splendid formal portrait. He wished to entrust this task to Marcello Bacciarelli, an Italian painter who had stayed at the court of Augustus III the Saxon in Warsaw for several years, leaving in the country a large number of excellent portraits of aristocrats. The king did not want to be portrayed in armor, but in the formal dress that he was wearing during the coronation ceremony: a coat lined with ermine fur, decorated with Polish eagles, a frock coat and trousers, with his hand rested against the baton of the military commander and royal regalia lying on the table beside him. Taking the king's instructions into consideration, Bacciarelli painted the portrait following the en gala pattern dating back to the time of the French absolute rulers, but in the more recent Rococo style. The king's pose was light, refined, elegant and graceful, which was in tune with the fashion of the day. The monarch noted down in his diary that the portrait caught the best likeness of him.

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[dreamconsumer]

Augustus II the Strong, King of Poland and the Zwinger Palace, Dresden.

[thefreelancehistorywriter]

St Jadwiga of Anjou, the King of Poland – A guest post by Katarzyna Ogrodnik-Fujcik

Jadwiga as depicted by Jan Matejko. Imaginary portrait based on a series of drawings the artist made upon examining her resting place in 1187. The Freelance History Writer is pleased to welcome back Katarzyna Ogrodnik-Fujcik with an exclusive article on an exceptional woman from Polish medieval history. In January 1887, a group of scholars and artists explored the grave of Jadwiga [Hedwig] of…

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[wikitpowers]

A MAGICAL ROAD TRIP OMFG I AM LOAING MY BLOODY MIND WTF WTF WTF!/!/)/7-&

[a-chaotic-dumbass]

my only take abt Sansa as ruler of the North is that instead of Queen she should call herself King in the North bc women using male titles has and always will go hard af

[polishdynasty]

JADWIGA OF POLAND in the armor in season 3 ep 324

[royalchildreneurope]

King Willem-Alexander of The Netherlands, Queen Máxima of The Netherlands and Princess Catharina-Amalia of The Netherlands attend the commemoration of the 80th anniversary of the liberation of the former German concentration and extermination camp Auschwitz-Birkenau, in Auschwitz, Poland -January 27th 2025.

[houseofbrat]

The King’s back at work and just announced he will travel to Poland this month. Anne is off to South Africa, Edward and Sophie to Nepal…and Willy and Cathy are on vacation 😂

Can't say I'm surprised.

George, Charlotte, and Louis are back in school. Kate is a stay-at-home mom, and William doesn't have any publicly declared engagements until Thursday.

Everyone else is out working except the two forty-year olds, but they'll continue having the KP comms team pretend as if Charles is going to keel over any day now because that's how William justifies his imagined superiority.

William won't work. Is he even a Windsor? Why do people pretend he's the grandson of Philip Mountbatten? Philip was a workhorse and and would do his duty to the point where he was physically unable to do so. Is William really related to Philip? You have to wonder at this point.

William acts like he's pure Spencer, just like his brother.

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Almost forgot to post this fucker

The first 3 are more casual, the 4th one is what he wears to political meetings and the last one is what he wears in public (+ fullbody veil but I got sick of drawing this so no veil for the ref)

[royalty-nobility]

King Henry III of France on Horseback

Artist: French School

Date: c. 1580-1589

Medium: OIl on panel

Collection: Musée Condé, Chantilly, France

Henry III of France

Henry III (19 September 1551 – 2 August 1589) was King of France from 1574 until his assassination in 1589, as well as King of Poland and Grand Duke of Lithuania from 1573 to 1575.

As the fourth son of King Henry II of France, he was not expected to inherit the French throne and thus was a good candidate for the vacant throne of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth, where he was elected monarch in 1573. During his brief rule, he signed the Henrician Articles into law, recognizing the szlachta's right to freely elect their monarch. Aged 22, Henry abandoned Poland–Lithuania upon inheriting the French throne when his brother, Charles IX, died without issue.

France was at the time plagued by the Wars of Religion, and Henry's authority was undermined by violent political factions funded by foreign powers: the Catholic League (supported by Spain and the Pope), the Protestant Huguenots (supported by England and the Dutch) and the Malcontents (led by Henry's own brother the Duke of Anjou and Alençon, a party of Catholic and Protestant aristocrats who jointly opposed the absolutist ambitions of the king). Henry III was himself a politique, arguing that a strong and centralised yet religiously tolerant monarchy would save France from collapse.

After the death of Henry's younger brother Francis, Duke of Anjou, and when it became apparent that Henry would not produce an heir, the Wars of Religion developed into a succession crisis, the War of the Three Henrys. Henry III's closest heir was his distant cousin, King Henry III of Navarre, a Protestant. The Catholic League, led by Henry I, Duke of Guise, sought to exclude Protestants from the succession and championed the Catholic Charles, Cardinal of Bourbon, as Henry III's heir.

Henry had the Duke of Guise murdered in 1588 and was in turn assassinated by Jacques Clément, a Catholic fanatic, in 1589. He was succeeded by the King of Navarre who, as Henry IV, assumed the throne of France as the first king of the House of Bourbon and eventually converted to Catholicism.

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[dreamconsumer]

Henry VI of Carinthia (1265-1335). Unknown artist.

He married Princess Anna of Bohemia. After the death of Anne's brother in 1306, Henry was elected king of Bohemia and titular king of Poland.

[ikarus-angel]

Cloudy Days | 1934

Humanised Reich and Poland in Warsaw 🥺

I think about them day and night. When I go to bed. When I wake up. When I'm at work. Everytime I breathe. How do I cope with this. ALSO THIS IS OBVIOUSLY THE To nie byl film™ AU I WOULD NOT SHIP THEM OTHERWISE HELP, THEY'RE FRIENDS HERE

But yeah Reich continueing to be everybody's gay awakening is literally my favorite theme, you go girl 🥰

[koronakrolowresource]

korona królów favourite costumes 9/???

elizabeth's celadon gown with black & gold lace overcoat, ep 14