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| align="center" style="background:#efefef;" colspan="2" style="border-bottom:1px #aaa solid;" | ''Casimir Jagiellon'' (drawing by Jan Matejko ) |- | align=center colspan=2 | |- |Reign || 1440 - June 7 , 1492 as Grand Duke of Lithuania. 1447 - June 7 , 1492 as King of Poland. |- |Coronation || June 29 , 1440 Vilnius Cathedral , Vilnius , Lithuania as Grand Duke of Lithuania. June 25 , 1447 , Wawel Cathedral , Kraków , Poland as King of Poland. |- | Royal House || Jagiellon . |- |Parents || Władysław II Jagiełło , Zofia Holszańska . |- |Consorts|| Elisabeth Of Austria (Elżbieta Rakuszanka) (1438-1505). |- |Children || With Elisabeth of Austria (Elżbieta Rakuszanka): Władysław II Jagiellończyk , Jadwiga Jagiellon , Kazimierz Święty , Jan I Olbracht , Alexander Jagiellon , Zofia, Elżbieta, Zygmunt I The Old , Fryderyk Jagiellon , Elżbieta II, Anna, Barbara , Elżbieta III. |- |Date of Birth || November 30 , 1427 . |- |Place of Birth || Kraków , Poland . |- |Date of Death || June 7 , 1492 . |- |Place of Death || Gardinas , Lithuania (now Belarus ). |- |Place of Burial || Kraków , Poland ( July 12 , 1492 ). |- |} Casimir Jagiellon ( - 1492 ), of the House of Jagiełło , was Grand Duke of Lithuania from 1440 and King of Poland from 1447 to his death. The son of King Władysław II Jagiełło and younger brother to Władysław III Of Varna , Kazimierz succeeded the latter after a three-year interregnum. He married in 1454 Elisabeth Of Austria (1438-1505), daughter of Albert II Of Habsburg , the previous Holy Roman Emperor , and his wife Elisabeth II Of Bohemia , heiress of Bohemia. Her distant kinsman Frederick III Of Austria was Holy Roman Emperor, and reigned in Germany even after Casimir's own death. Her family's and Emperor's relations were strained and there was much strife, for example because of inheritance disputes. Elizabeth's brother Ladislas V was at that time King of Bohemia and Hungary, and just recently freed from the imprisonment where the Emperor had kept him almost all his childhood. The marriage strengthened the ties between the house of Jagiełło and the sovereigns of Hungary-Bohemia, and put Casimir into opposition to the Emperor in that internal Habsburg rivalry. That same year, Casimir was approached by the Prussia ns for aid against the ruling Teutonic Order , which he promised, by the act of incorporation of Prussia to the Polish Kingdom ; however, when the cities of Prussia rebelled against the Teutons, the Order resisted with greater strength than expected, and the Thirteen Years' War ( 1454 - 1466 ) ensued. Casimir, in alliance with the Prussian Confederation , defeated the Teutonic Order , taking over its capital at Malbork . In the ensuing Peace Of Toruń 1466 , the Order recognized Polish sovereignty over Royal Prussia and the Polish crown's overlordship over Ducal Prussia . A daughter of Casimir, Jadwiga Jagiellon , married George The Rich Wittelsbach of Bavaria . Delegates had gone to Kraków to negotiate the marriage. Their " Landshut Wedding " took place in Bavaria with much pomp and celebration in 1475 . Casimir Jagiellon's son Casimir was to have married the daughter of Emperor Frederick III but instead chose a religious life, eventually being canonized as St. Casimir . Casimir Jagiellon's other son Wladislaus combined the thrones of Hungary and Bohemia . His younger sons Jan I Olbracht , Alexander Jagiellon and Sigismund The Old succeeded him in turns in Poland and in the Grand Duchy of Lithuania. See also External links |