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    Sigismund Kęstutaitis (Lithuanian: Žygimantas I Kęstutaitis, Polish: Zygmunt Kiejstutowicz; 1365 – 20 March 1440) was the Grand Duke of Lithuania from...
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  • language as Жыгімонт (such are the cases of Sigismund Kęstutaitis, Sigismund Korybut, Sigismund I the Old, Sigismund II Augustus). The Polish spelling is Zygmunt...
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    and the Livonian Order in a military struggle against Poland and Sigismund Kęstutaitis of Lithuania in 1434, shortly after Władysław assumed the throne...
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    unsuccessful dynastic struggles against his cousins Vytautas and Sigismund Kęstutaitis. Švitrigaila was born to Algirdas, Grand Duke of Lithuania, and...
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    military units from the Kingdom of Poland, the forces of Grand Duke Sigismund Kęstutaitis soundly defeated Švitrigaila and his Livonian allies. The battle...
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    group of nobles deposed Švitrigaila in support of Sigismund Kęstutaitis, brother of Vytautas. Sigismund resumed policy of union with Poland. A Polish delegation...
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    Švitrigaila, allied with the Teutonic Knights, and on the other by Sigismund Kęstutaitis, backed by the Kingdom of Poland. The war threatened to sever the...
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    Kęstutis Patrikas Kęstutaitis Vaidotas Kęstutaitis Butautas Kęstutaitis Vytautas the Great Tautvilas Kęstutaitis Žygimantas Kęstutaitis IV. The descendants...
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    unsuccessful monarch following Władysław's death. The sudden death of Sigismund Kęstutaitis left the office of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania empty. The Voivode...
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    unsuccessful monarch following Władysław's death. The sudden death of Sigismund Kęstutaitis left the office of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania empty. The Voivode...
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  • Sigismund of Lithuania may refer to: Sigismund Kęstutaitis (ca. 1365 – 1440), Grand Duke Sigismund I of Lithuania Sigismund I the Old of Poland (1467–1548)...
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  • December 1432 at Ashmyany between the armies of Švitrigaila and Sigismund Kęstutaitis, two pretenders to the throne of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania during...
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  • of Rome, Italian Benedictine nun and saint (b. 1384) March 20: Sigismund Kęstutaitis, Grand Duke of Lithuania (b. 1365) April 2: Giovanni Vitelleschi...
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  • June 1 – Battle of San Romano: Florence defeats Siena. August 31 – Sigismund Kęstutaitis attempts the capture or murder of Švitrigaila, his rival for the...
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    century. Duke Sigismund Korybut and his troops flying the Lithuanian banner of arms in Prague, 15th century Seal of Sigismund Kęstutaitis with Vytis (Waykimas)...
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    with him against Vytautas' brother Sigismund Kęstutaitis. In 1431 while defending Lutsk from the Sigismund Kęstutaitis' Polish-Lithuanian assault he was...
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  • sides, and Haji fled to the Lithuanian lands to gather a new army. Sigismund Kęstutaitis decided to hold him hostage and gave him a castle at Lida. In 1437...
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    a supporter and a companion of Vytautas the Great, his brother Sigismund Kestutaitis and nephew Casimir Jagiellon, he became the Castellan of Vilnius...
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    descendant of Kęstutis, Grand Duke of Lithuania. He supported his father Sigismund Kęstutaitis in power struggles with Švitrigaila. In 1435 he led his father's...
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    1 September 1435. His army was decisively defeated by Sigismund Kęstutaitis' forces. Sigismund Korybut was wounded during the battle, however he fought...
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    Another user of the Columns of Gediminas was Grand Duke of Lithuania Sigismund Kęstutaitis. At first, the Columns signified the family of Kęstutis, in contrast...
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    ally in their wars against Sigismund, the emperor elect and new king of Bohemia. In 1421, the Bohemian Diet declared Sigismund deposed and formally offered...
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    Shchepin-Obolensky. In the same year, the Great Duke of Lithuania Sigismund Kęstutaitis founded the Gomel Starostwo. According to the peace agreement of...
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    coat of arms of Łabędź, received from Michael Žygimantaitis son of Sigismund Kęstutaitis, Duke of Lithuania, a wilderness area located along the river Biała...
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  • of Rome, Italian Benedictine nun and saint (b. 1384) March 20: Sigismund Kęstutaitis, Grand Duke of Lithuania (b. 1365) April 2: Giovanni Vitelleschi...
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    were Eastern Orthodox, were excluded, however, in 1434, Grand Duke Sigismund Kęstutaitis repealed some of the provisions in the Horodło acts that limited...
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    circumstances, but held de jure recognition abroad —Vytautas the Great by Sigismund, Holy Roman Emperor, and Mindaugas II by Pope Benedict XV. Others were...
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    an opposing Bohemian town as part of the Hussite Wars. In 1435, Sigismund Kęstutaitis' army defeated the opposing army, which included troops of the Livonian...
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  • June 1 – Battle of San Romano: Florence defeats Siena. August 31 – Sigismund Kęstutaitis attempts the capture or murder of Švitrigaila, his rival for the...
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  • 1432 – The first battle between the forces of Švitrigaila and Sigismund Kęstutaitis is fought near the town of Oszmiana (Ashmyany), launching the most...
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