page_title: Władysław II Jagiełło
section_title: Against the Teutonic Order
hierarchical_section_title: Władysław II Jagiełło / King of Poland / Against the Teutonic Order
caption_attribution_description: English: Royal seal of King Władysław II Jagiełło of Poland (copy). Deutsch: Königliches Siegel von König Władysław II Jagiełło von Polen (Duplikat). Das Original befindet sich im Archiv der Jagiellonen-Universität in Krakau. Français&#160;: Copie du sceau royal du roi Władysław II Jagiełło de pologne. Polski: Pieczęć majestatyczna króla Władysława Jagiełły, lata 1388-1431 (kopia, oryginał w Archiwum Uniwersytetu Jagiellońskiego). Legenda pieczęci: S[igillum] Wladislaus Dei Gra[tia] Rex Polonie n[ec]no[n] t[er]raru[m] Cracovie Sa[n]domi[ri]e Syradie La[n]ci[ci]e Cuyavie Litwanie p[ri]nceps sup[re]m[us] Pomoranie Russieq[ue] d[omi]n[u]s et h[e]r[e]s e[tc]
context_page_description: Jogaila, later Władysław II Jagiełło was the Grand Duke of Lithuania and then the King of Poland, first alongside his wife Jadwiga until 1399, and then sole King of Poland. He ruled in Lithuania from 1377. Born a pagan, in 1386 he converted to Catholicism and was baptized as Władysław in Kraków, married the young Queen Jadwiga, and was crowned King of Poland as Władysław II Jagiełło. In 1387 he converted Lithuania to Christianity. His own reign in Poland started in 1399, upon the death of Queen Jadwiga, and lasted a further thirty-five years and laid the foundation for the centuries-long Polish–Lithuanian union. He was a member of the Jagiellonian dynasty in Poland that bears his name and was previously also known as the Gediminid dynasty in the Grand Duchy of Lithuania. The dynasty ruled both states until 1572, and became one of the most influential dynasties in late medieval and early modern Europe. During his reign, the Polish-Lithuanian state was the largest state in the Christian world.
  Jogaila was the last pagan ruler of medieval Lithuania.
context_section_description: The war ended in the Treaty of Raciąż on 22 May 1404. Władysław acceded to the formal cession of Samogitia and agreed to support the Order's designs on Pskov; in return, Konrad von Jungingen undertook to sell Poland the disputed Dobrzyń Land and the town of Złotoryja, once pawned to the Order by Władysław Opolski, and to support Vytautas in a revived attempt on Novgorod. Both sides had practical reasons for signing the treaty at that point: the Order needed time to fortify its newly acquired lands, the Poles and Lithuanians to deal with territorial challenges in the east and in Silesia.
  Also in 1404, Władysław held talks at Vratislav with Wenceslaus IV of Bohemia, who offered to return Silesia to Poland if Władysław supported him in his power struggle within the Holy Roman Empire. Władysław turned the deal down with the agreement of both Polish and Silesian nobles, unwilling to burden himself with new military commitments in the west.
caption: Royal seal of Władysław II Jagiełło
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