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Jagello
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Jagello: see Jagiello Jagiello or Jagello , dynasty that ruled Poland and Lithuania from 1386 to 1572, Hungary from 1440 to 1444 and again from 1490 to 1526, and Bohemia from 1471 to 1526.
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The switch came after the Vatican authorised a crusade and colonisation drive in the Baltic by the German-rooted Teutonic knights, but also because Lithuanian ruler Jogaila converted when he was offered the throne of neighbouring Poland in 1386.
Subsequently Jogaila (known in Polish historiography as Wladyslaw Jagiello) and Vytautas joined forces to defeat the Teutonic Order at the Battle of Grunwald, but later quarreled over control of Lithuania and Vytautas's ambitions to be crowned king there.
 
 
 
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