Sophia of Halshany

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Sophia of Halshany
Image:Zofia Holszańska.jpg
Coronation	on March 5, 1424 in the Wawel Cathedral, Kraków, Poland
Coat of Arms	Hipocentaur Image:Herb Hipocentaur.jpg
Parents	Andrew of Halshany, Alexandra Drucka
Consort	Władysław II Jagiełło
Date of Birth	c. 1405
Date of Death	September 21, 1461
Place of Death	Kraków, Poland
Place of Burial	Wawel Cathedral, Kraków

Sophia of Halshany (Belarusian: Соф'я Гальшанская, Sofja Halšanskaja; Lithuanian: Zofija Alšėniškė; Polish: Zofia Holszańska) (c. 1405-1461), was a Lithuanian princess of Halshany, Queen of Poland from (1422-1461), and the last wife of Władysław II Jagiełło.

Contents 1 Biography 2 Ancestors 3 Patronage 4 References 5 See also

[edit] Biography

Vytautas the Great helped arrange the marriage between Sophia and Jagiełło. Sophia was a daughter of Vytautas's brother-in-law, Andrew of Halshany. Jagiełło was already at the advanced age of 71 when, on February 24 (or 7), 1422, he married Sophia, his fourth wife, who was then at the approximate age of 17. The marriage took place in the city of Navahrudak and was carried out by Matthias of Trakai, Bishop of Samogitia. Finally, she bore him the male heirs he desired. From previous marriages he had two daughters, one who died as a baby, the other, Jadwiga of Lithuania, the last of his children with Piast blood, died in 1431 at 23, amidst rumors of poisoning. Sophia was the mother of:

• Wladislaus III of Poland (1424-1444), King of Poland 1434-1444 and Hungary 1440-1444
• Casimir IV of Poland (1427-1492), Grand Duke of Lithuania 1440-1492, King of Poland 1447-1492

Another son, also named Casimir, died at the age of one. Initially there was resistance from the Polish nobility, Polish: szlachta, to recognise Jagiełło's and Sophia's sons as the heirs to the Polish throne. Jagiełło had to make concessions and grant them new privileges in exchange for this recognition.

Sophia sponsored the translation of the Bible into the Polish language (1453–1461). She was the grandmother of Saint Casimir.

[edit] Ancestors

Olgimont of Halshany

Ivan Olgimontowicz of Halshany

Andrew of Halshany

Sviatoslav Ivanovich of Smolensk[2]

Agrippina Sviatoslavna of Smolensk

? Twerska

Sophia of Halshany

Dimitri Olgierdowic Drucki

Alexandra Drucka

Anastasia of Ryazan[1]

[edit] Patronage

01146Kraków.JPG Queen Sophia's Chapel (1431-1432) of the Wawel Cathedral, left

Karta z Biblii Królowej Zofii.jpeg Bible of Queen Sophia in Polish (1453-1455) by Andrzej Jaszowic

[edit] References

[edit] See also

• Wawel Cathedral
• Olshanski

Sophia of Halshany Olshanski Born: c. 1405 Died: 21 September 1461
Royal titles
Preceded by Elisabeth of Pilica	Queen of Poland 1424-1434	Succeeded by Elisabeth of Austria

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