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Casimir IV Jagiellon, King of Poland

Type Figure Region Kingdom of Poland Time c. 1427–1492 Also known as Casimir Jagiellon

King of Poland (1447–1492) and Grand Duke of Lithuania, a monarch at the height of the Jagiellonian dynasty.…

Timeline

  1. c. 1427–1460Kraków · PolandGrand Duke of Lithuania from 1440, elected King of Poland in 1447; in his early years he reformed relations with the noble assembly, and in 1454 launched the Thirteen Years' War against the Teutonic Order, gradually recovering lost lands including Danzig.
  2. 1461–1470Malbork · PrussiaOver this decade the Thirteen Years' War entered a stalemate and counteroffensive phase; Casimir IV allied with Bohemia, Moravia, and other partners to besiege Order fortresses, and in 1466 signed the Second Peace of Thorn, in which the Order recognized Polish suzerainty and ceded West Prussia.
  3. 1471–1492Kraków · PolandAfter the war he pushed east to the line of Kyiv and Smolensk; his children took the thrones of Hungary, Bohemia, Brandenburg, and elsewhere; in his late years relations with Matthias Corvinus of Hungary grew tense, and he died in Grodzisk in 1492.

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