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Jadwiga Of Lithuania
Jadwiga (; diminutives: ''Jadzia'' , ''Iga'') is a Polish language, Polish feminine given name. It originated from the old German feminine given name ''Hedwig (name), Hedwig'' (variants of which include ''Hedwiga''), which is compounded from ''hadu'', "battle", and ''wig'', "fight". Jadwiga may refer to: * Jadwiga (wife of Władysław Odonic) (died 1249), Duchess consort of Greater Poland * Jadwiga of Kalisz (1266–1339), Queen of Poland and mother of Casimir III of Poland * Jadwiga of Żagań (before 1350–1390), Queen of Poland, wife of Casimir III of Poland (daughter-in-law of previous) * Jadwiga of Poland (1374–1399), female monarch of Poland, named after Saint Hedwig of Andechs * Jadwiga Dzido (1918–1985), Polish survivor of Ravensbrück concentration camp * Jadwiga Jagiellon (other), several Polish princesses of that name See also * Hedwig (other) * Hadewijch * Edwige [Baidu] |
Polish Language
Polish (Polish: ''język polski'', , ''polszczyzna'' or simply ''polski'', ) is a West Slavic language of the Lechitic group written in the Latin script. It is spoken primarily in Poland and serves as the native language of the Poles. In addition to being the official language of Poland, it is also used by the Polish diaspora. There are over 50 million Polish speakers around the world. It ranks as the sixth most-spoken among languages of the European Union. Polish is subdivided into regional dialects and maintains strict T–V distinction pronouns, honorifics, and various forms of formalities when addressing individuals. The traditional 32-letter Polish alphabet has nine additions (''ą'', ''ć'', ''ę'', ''ł'', ''ń'', ''ó'', ''ś'', ''ź'', ''ż'') to the letters of the basic 26-letter Latin alphabet, while removing three (x, q, v). Those three letters are at times included in an extended 35-letter alphabet, although they are not used in native words. The traditional ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hedwig (name)
Hedwig is a German language, German feminine given name, from Old High German ''Hadwig, Hadewig, Haduwig''. It is a Germanic name consisting of the two elements ''hadu'' "battle, combat" and ''wig'' "fight, duel". The name is on record since the 9th century, with Haduwig, a daughter of Louis the German. The name remained popular in German high nobility during the 10th and 11th centuries. Other medieval spellings include ''Hathuwic, Hathewiga, Hadewich, Hadewic, Hathwiga, Hadwich, Hatwig, Hadwig, Hediwig, Hedewiga, Hedewich, Hedewiih, Hatuuih, Hetvic, Haduwich, Hadawich, Hatuwig'', etc. Forms such as ''Hadiwih, Hadewi'' etc. suggest that the name is the result of a conflation of two separate names, one with the second element ''wig'' "fight", the other with the second element ''wih'' "hallowed". A common German (and also Dutch) diminutive of Hedwig is ''Hedy''. The Dutch form of Hedwig is Hadewych (Hadewijch). The German name was adopted into Swedish (and to a lesser extent into Dan ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jadwiga (wife Of Władysław Odonic)
Jadwiga (died 29 December 1249) was by marriage Duchess consort of Greater Poland. Her parentage is disputed among historians and sources. Among the possible origins for Jadwiga include: * Descent from the Pomerelian Samborides lineage of the Dukes of Pomerania, i.e. the daughter of Mestwin I, Duke of Pomerania. This theory is the most accepted among historiography and web sources. * Descent from the Bohemian Přemyslid dynasty, i.e. the daughter of Prince Sviatopluk, son of Vladislaus II, Duke and King of Bohemia. * Descent from the German House of Andechs. This origin is supported by the fact that she is called relative of the Grand Master of the Teutonic Knights, Poppo von Osterna. Life After Władysław Odonic was expelled from Poland by his uncle Władysław III Spindleshanks, he spent some time in Hungary, Bohemia and Germany before he arrived to the court of Swantopolk II, Duke of Pomerania around 1218. In Pomerania the wedding between Władysław and Jadwiga took place ( ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jadwiga Of Kalisz
Jadwiga of Kalisz (Polish: ''Jadwiga kaliska'' (''Bolesławówna)''; 1266 – 10 December 1339) was a Queen of Poland by marriage to Ladislaus the Short. She was the mother of the last Piast King of Poland, Casimir III. She was the second of three daughters born to Bolesław the Pious and Saint Yolanda of Hungary. In 1293, Jadwiga married Ladislaus I of Poland. Life Jadwiga's husband, Ladislaus (Polish: Władysław, known as the "Short" and the "Elbow-high"), was a bitter rival of Wenceslaus II of Bohemia who was King of Poland between 1291–1305. Life was dangerous for Jadwiga and her family during this time, she and three of her children had to go into hiding for a while in 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 by Germans under mysterious circumstances so his campaign of Poland ended. His wife, Viola of Teschen, had not borne him any children, so Ladislaus assumed ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jadwiga Of Żagań
Hedwig of Sagan ( pl, Jadwiga żagańska; before 1350 – 27 March 1390) was Queen of Poland as the fourth wife of Casimir III. Casimir's lack of male heir spelled the end of the Piast Dynasty in the Kingdom of Poland. After Casimir's death in 1370, she remarried Rupert I of Legnica. Family Hedwig was the third of five children born to Henry V of Iron and his wife Anna, daughter of Duke Wenceslaus of Płock. Her brothers were Henry VI the Older, Henry VII Rumpold, Henry VIII the Sparrow, and her only sister was Anna, wife of Jan I of Racibórz. First marriage Casimir III of Poland had two daughters Elizabeth and Cunigunde by his first wife Aldona of Lithuania. Casimir's second marriage to Adelaide of Hesse was loveless and childless; they spent most their marriage apart from each other. His third wife Christina Rokiczana, his mistress and a widow of a wealthy merchant, also bore no children. Casimir needed a son and he chose Hedwig as it would to strengthen his ties with Charl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jadwiga Of Poland
Jadwiga (; 1373 or 137417 July 1399), also known as Hedwig ( hu, Hedvig), was the first woman to be crowned as monarch of the Kingdom of Poland. She reigned from 16 October 1384 until her death. She was the youngest daughter of Louis the Great, King of Hungary and Poland, and his wife, Elizabeth of Bosnia. Jadwiga was a member of the Capetian House of Anjou, but she had more close forebears among the Polish Piasts than among the Angevins. In 1375, it was planned that when becoming old enough, she would marry William of Austria and she lived in Vienna from 1378 to 1380. Jadwiga's father is thought to have regarded her and William as his favoured successors in Hungary after the 1379 death of her eldest sister, Catherine, since that same year the Polish nobility had pledged their homage to Louis' second daughter, Mary, and Mary's fiancé, Sigismund of Luxembourg. However, Louis died, and in 1382, at her mother's insistence, Mary was crowned "King of Hungary". Sigismund of Luxemb ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jadwiga Dzido
Jadwiga Dzido (1918–1985) was a Polish resistance worker and pharmacy student who was arrested by the Gestapo in 1941 and deported to the Ravensbrück concentration camp where she was subjected to forced operations. She was infected with bacteria, dirt and slivers of glass to test the effects of sulphonamide on healing infected wounds. She subsequently became a witness at the 1946 Nuremberg trials. Biography Born on 26 January 1918 in Suchowola, Jadwiga Dzido was the daughter of Katarzyna and Józef Dzido. She was brought up in Łuków in eastern Poland. After her father died in World War I, her mother worked in a pharmacy run by Teodozjusz Nowiński. Encouraged by Nowinski, she began studying at the University of Warsaw in 1938, hoping to earn a degree in pharmacy. After completing the first year, she was back in Łuków when war broke out. She joined the Union of Armed Struggle resistance movement, helping to distribute illegal news articles. The Gestapo arrested her on 28 M ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jadwiga Jagiellon (other)
Hedwig or Jadwiga Jagiellon(ka) may refer to: * Hedwig Jagiellon (1408–1431), daughter of Jogaila, King of Poland and Grand Duke of Lithuania, and Anna of Celje * Hedwig Jagiellon (1457–1502), daughter of King Casimir IV Jagiellon of Poland and Archduchess Elisabeth of Austria; wife of Duke George of Bavaria in Landshut * Hedwig Jagiellon (1513–1573) Hedwig Jagiellon ( pl, Jadwiga Jagiellonka, lt, Jadvyga Jogailaitė, german: Hedwig Jagiellonica; 15 March 1513 – 7 February 1573) was a granddaughter of Emperor Sigismund and of the Jagiellonian dynasty as daughter of Sigismund I the Old of ..., daughter of Sigismund I the Old of Poland and Hungarian princess Barbara Zápolya; wife of Joachim II Hector, Elector of Brandenburg {{hndis, Jagiellon, Jadwiga Polish feminine given names ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hedwig (other)
Hedwig may refer to: People and fictional characters * Hedwig (name), a list of people and fictional characters with the given name * Grzegorz Hedwig (born 1988), Polish slalom canoeist * Johann Hedwig, (1730–1799), German botanist * Romanus Adolf Hedwig (1772–1806), German botanist, son of Johann Hedwig * Hedwig Jagiellon (other), a list of princesses Other uses * Hedwig Fountain, a fountain in Zürich, Switzerland * Hedwig glass, a type of glass * Hedwig, code name of Red Hat Linux version 6.0, released in 1999 * 476 Hedwig, a main-belt asteroid See also * Hedwig Village, Texas, United States, a city * St. Hedwig (other) St. Hedwig refers to Hedwig of Silesia (1174–1243), Catholic saint and Duchess of Silesia and of Greater Poland. St. Hedwig or St. Hedwig's may also refer to: __NOTOC__ Roman Catholic parishes in the United States * St. Hedwig Parish, Union City ... {{disambiguation, surname de:Hedwig it:Edvige hu:Hedvig no:Hedvig sk:Hedviga sv: ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hadewijch
Hadewijch, sometimes referred to as Hadewych or Hadewig (of Brabant or of Antwerp) was a 13th-century poet and mystic, probably living in the Duchy of Brabant. Most of her extant writings are in a Brabantian form of Middle Dutch. Her writings include visions, prose letters and poetry. Hadewijch was one of the most important direct influences on John of Ruysbroeck. Life No details of her life are known outside the sparse indications in her own writings. Her ''Letters'' suggest that she functioned as the head of a beguine house, but that she had experienced opposition that drove her to a wandering life. This evidence, as well as her lack of reference to life in a convent, makes the nineteenth-century theory that she was a nun problematic, and it has been abandoned by modern scholars. She must have come from a wealthy family: her writing demonstrates an expansive knowledge of the literature and theological treatises of several languages, including Latin and French, as well as French ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Edwige
Edwige is a feminine French given name. Notable people with the name include: * Edwige Avice, French politician * Edwige Belmore, French model, singer, and actress * Edwidge Danticat, Haitian-American novelist * Edwige Djedjemel, Ivorian basketball player * Edwige Fenech, Italian actress and film producer * Edwige Feuillère, French film actress * Edwige Gwend, Italian judoka * Edwige Lawson-Wade, French basketball player * Edwige Pitel, French cyclist * Edwige-Renée Dro, Ivorian writer, translator and literary activist See also * Edwidge Danticat, Haitian-American author * Hadewijch * Hedwig (name) * Jadwiga Jadwiga (; diminutives: ''Jadzia'' , ''Iga'') is a Polish feminine given name. It originated from the old German feminine given name ''Hedwig'' (variants of which include ''Hedwiga''), which is compounded from ''hadu'', "battle", and ''wig'', "fig ... {{given name French feminine given names ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
