Monarchs of Poland

Poland has a long and colorful royal history. Since the 9th Century Poland was ruled by dukes, high dukes and kings at various times. Sometimes hereditary the Polish monarchy was more often elective, the throne often passing back and forth between competing forces. From 1386 to 1572 the Jagiellon dynasty provided the Kings of Poland and Grand Dukes of Lithuania. After that the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth came into being and was, for a time, a major force in central Europe at one point even threatening to dominate Russia. In 1795 it all ended with the partition of Poland between Prussia, Austria and Russia. During World War I the Germans and Austrians set up a Kingdom of Poland under a regency but after their defeat a new republican Poland was established.

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[szlaku]

@LordMackus

Russian kings of Congress Poland are not legitimate kings of Polish Crown. They were orthodox. Legitimate king of Poland MUST BE ROMAN CATHOLIC.

[BielajaArmija]

@Lord1Mackus yeah, I wonder why even John Matejko missed Frederick August I? Because Polish Tsars I can understand.

However here we have 3 unlegendary Dukes, Bezprim and Zbigniew, who are missed many times, even by Matejko.

God thanks Szymon Kobylinski painted they in similar to Matejko's style ;).

[BielajaArmija]

Great video about Kings of my country, thanks!

Homever Theotokos (Bogurodzica) anthem should be better here ;).

Dabrowski's Mazurka fits more with omitted Warsaw Duchy, Congress Kingdom and later rulers.

[balthasarEF]

The Duke of Kent almost became King of Poland.

[Lord1Mackus]

Nice. But i think you should add kings of Congress Poland even if they are not (in my opinion unjustly) very popular in Poland