Saint George and the White Eagle - an Anglo-Polish timeline

Saint George and the White Eagle

Krakow: 1380

Child
What is braveness, my dear uncle
Wladyslaw Opolczyk
It is defending what is right, my son!
 
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The birth that changed history
On 1328, Agnes of Bohemia delivers an healthy son for her husband, Henry of Jawor and Glogow named Przemyslaw and on 1330 Elisabeth Richeza and Henry of Lipa eloped and stayed In the court of Wladyslaw the Elbowhigh.

On 1331, Anna of Lithuania conceives and months after it was revealed that she is carrying a child.

In January of 1332, Anna of Lithuania the wife of Prince Casimir went into labour which lasted for many hours, and finally the child came out, Anna of Lithuania has given birth to a daughter, however the pregnancy had complications for her, Prince Casimir is glad to see the child as he had just won the battle of Plowce.

For Anna, she is weak after giving birth to her daughter and she died after giving birth to a daughter, she died after giving birth, she is just more or less 23 years and the alliance with Lithuania was said to be dissolved after the death of the Princess, the daughter would be named Kunigunde.

Prince Casimir, mourned for his own wife, Anna of Lithuania, he himself chose that Elisabeth of Poland, his daughter would marry a Silesian Piast, Przemyslaw, a grandson of Elisabeth Richeza of Poland (due to Elisabeth Richeza’s arrangement with her partner Henry of Lipa), the future duke of Jawor and Glogow, while for Kunigunde, she would marry Boguslaw, the Duke of Pomerania-Stolp it was decreed that if he does not have a legal son, it would be the children of Kunigunde of Poland that will succeed the throne, the ties of Jawor, Swidnica and Opole would cause these duchies to stay out of Bohemia’s orbit and stay loyal to their mother Poland.

On 1333, he knew that his former betrothed, Judith of Bohemia would marry John of Valois, so he sent messengers to Queen Isabella of England, in order to arrange a possible marriage between him and an English Princess, the English Princess that was available was Eleanor of England and she is more or less 15 years of age, and for him it would create an alliance between Poland and England.

On 1334, the Princess finally arrived in Poland with her retinue and they were married on the Wawel Cathedral, Eleanor of England made steps to erase the legacy of Anna of Lithuania, and she did succeed since Anna of Lithuania did not have any son.

The two were crowned, the King and Queen of Poland on the death of Wladyslaw the Elbowhigh on 1335.
 
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