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Casimir IV

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

King of Poland (1447–1492) and Grand Duke of Lithuania (1440–1492), an important Jagiellonian monarch who won the Thirteen Years' War and consolidate…

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  1. 1471–1480Kraków · PolandIn the 1470s he continued consolidating the gains of the Thirteen Years' War, handling border defense and succession issues involving the Teutonic Order, Hungary and the Ottoman Empire, and arranging for his sons to take the thrones of Bohemia, Hungary and elsewhere.
  2. 1481–1492Vilnius · LithuaniaIn the 1480s he faced Ottoman pressure from the east and disputes over the Hungarian succession; he died at Grodzisk in 1492, leaving a Jagiellonian family political legacy spanning Central Europe.

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