caption father house death_date succession mother consort birth_date coronation spouse issue image article_title reign
seal of queen jadwiga boleslaw the pious house of piast 10 december 1339 -lrb- aged 72 -- 73 -rrb- queen consort of poland yolanda of hungary yes c. 1266 30 january 1320 władysław i the elbow-high kunigunde elizabeth , queen of hungary , duchess of Świdnica casimir iii of poland jadwiga kaliska seal.png hedwig of kalisz
 1320 -- c. 1333
hedwig of kalisz

hedwig of kalisz -lrb- polish : `` jadwiga bolesławówna '' ; 1266 -- 10 december 1339 -rrb- was the second of three daughters born to boleslaw the pious and saint yolanda of hungary .
in 1293 , jadwiga married władysław i the elbow-high , becoming queen of poland .
she was the mother of the last piast king of poland , casimir iii .
hedwig 's husband , władysław i the elbow-high , was a bitter rival of wenceslaus ii of bohemia who was king of poland between 1291 -- 1305 .
life was dangerous for hedwig and her family during this time , she and three of her children had to go into hiding for a while during 1300 .
in 1305 , wenceslaus ii died and was succeeded by his son , wenceslaus iii of bohemia .
wenceslaus iii reigned for a year before he was assassinated under mysterious circumstances so his campaign of poland ended .
his wife , viola of teschen , had not borne him any children so his successor was władysław .
in 1318 , władysław began making attempts to have himself crowned king .
the pope , though initially unwilling , finally granted his approval and władysław and hedwig were crowned king and queen of poland on 30 january 1320 in kraków ; a new crown was made for the new queen and it was later used to crown other queens of poland .
władysław and hedwig lost their two eldest sons , stephen -lrb- d. 1306 -rrb- and władysław -lrb- d. 1311/1312 -rrb- .
they later had two more children , casimir -lrb- 1310 -- 1370 -rrb- and jadwiga -lrb- d. 1320/1322 -rrb- .
the coronation was a sign that he had overcome poland 's internal fragmentation and re-united and re-instated the country as an independent kingdom under his rule .
poland now needed friends abroad ; so in 1320 , hedwig and władysław 's daughter elizabeth -lrb- 1305 -- 1380 -rrb- married charles i of hungary .
hedwig played an active part in politics during her husband 's reign .
she took over the regency of stary sacz when her granddaughter by kunigunde -lrb- c. 1298 -- 1331 -rrb- , constance of swidnica resigned to become a nun .
her husband died in 1333 .
hedwig lived until 1339 .
