Anna of Celje (1386-1416) was Queen consort of Poland and grand duchess of Lithuania, 1402-16 as second wife of Jogaila Władysław Jagiełło of Poland and Lithuania (reigned 1377-1434). Events Battle of Sempach: Swiss safeguard independence from Habsburg rule End of reign of Poland by Capet-Anjou family. ... Events May 30 - The Catholic Church burns Jerome of Prague as a heretic. ... King George V of the United Kingdom and his consort, Queen Mary A queen consort is the wife and consort of a reigning king. ... ... Wladislaus II on Jan Matejkos painting Wladislaus II Jagiello (Polish WÅ‚adysÅ‚aw II JagieÅ‚Å‚o, Lithuanian Jogaila, Belarusian Jahajla (Ягайла)) (c. ...

Anna of Celje was born as the only daughter of William (1361-92), Count of Celje (a Slovenian state) and Anna of Poland (1366-1425), the youngest surviving daughter of the late king Casimir III of Poland (1309-1370). Categories: Stub ... Casimir the Great Casimir III the Great (Polish: Kazimierz Wielki), (1310-1370), King of Poland, son of king Władyslaw I Łokietek (Wladyslaw the Elbow High), 1305-1333 and Jadwiga of Gniezno and Great Poland. ...

When Wladyslaw Jagiello's first wife the reigining queen Jadwiga of Poland, young Anna's second cousin, had died in 1399 (without surviving children), Wladyslaw sought a wife amongst heirs to the kingdom of Poland, Jadwiga's patrimony. The about 50-year-old king married the 16-year-old Anna in 1402. This article is about the 14th-century queen and saint. ...

Her mother Anna of Poland, Countess of Celje tried to gain influence in Poland, mostly to advance her daughter's and granddaughter's position.

Anna bore an only surviving daughter, Princess Jadwiga of Lithuania (born 1408) to her husband, and then died in 1416, at about the age of 30. Jadwiga (8 April 1408 - 8 December 1431) of the House of Jagiellon was a daughter of Jogaila Władysław II Jagiełło, King of Poland and Grand Duke of Lithuania. ...

Jogaila then married in 1417 Elisabeth of Pilica, and in 1422 Sophia of Halshany, both of whom did not descend from Piast kings of Poland, as Jogaila was not able to find any more brides with a hereditary right to the kingdom of Poland. Jogaila's sons and heirs were born of Sophia. Sophia of Halshany (Lithuanian: Zofija Alšėniškė; Polish: Zofia Holszańska) (1405?-1461), Lithuanian noblewoman from Halshany (Lithuanian Alšėnai, now Halshany in Belarus), Polish Queen (1442-1461), wife of Wladyslaw II Jagielo (Jogaila). ...

A party of Polish nobles wanted Jadwiga and her future husband to succeed Jogaila (in Poland at least), instead of her father's sons by Sofia.

In 1425 the late Anna's mother Anna, Countess of Celje, died. And in 1431 her daughter Jadwiga, without any issue. Anna's descent went extinct before Jogaila's death.