List of Lithuanian royal consorts
The consort (or spouse) of the royal rulers of Lithuania and of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth was in all cases a woman and nearly all took the title of Grand Duchess.
Queen consort of Lithuania
Morta
and her sister were the only Queens of Lithuania; her successors took the title of "Grand Duchess" instead.
The short-lived
Mindaugas II of Lithuania: but his first wife, Duchess Amalie in Bavaria
, had died six years earlier, and his second marriage, to Princess Wiltrud of Bavaria, occurred six years after the Kingdom was replaced by a Republic.
Grand Duchess of Lithuania
Mindaugas Dynasty
Picture | Name | Father | Birth | Marriage | Became Grand Duchess | Ceased to be Grand Duchess | Death | Spouse
|
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
- | Morta
|
- | - | around 1219 | 1235 husband's accession |
1263 | Mindaugas | |
- | Sister of Morta | - | - | after 1263 | 12 September 1263 husband's death |
- | ||
- | Ramunė [1][2] |
Mindaugas (Mindaugas) |
- | 1254/5 | 1267 husband's accession |
1269 husband's death |
- | Shvarn |
- | Ludmila of Masovia? | Piast )
|
1223 | 1238 | 1270 husband's accession |
1282 husband's death |
- | Traidenis |
Gediminid Dynasty
Picture | Name | Father | Birth | Marriage | Became Grand Duchess | Ceased to be Grand Duchess | Death | Spouse
|
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Vida | Vidmund | It is uncertain how many wives Gediminas had. The | Gediminas | |||||
Olga Vsevolodovna of Smolensk | Vsevolod of Smolensk ( Rurikids? )
| |||||||
Ievna Ivanovna of Polotsk
|
Ivan Vsevolodich, Prince of Polotsk ( Rurikids? )
|
? | - | Winter of 1341 husband's death |
1344/5 | |||
Maria Yaroslavna of Vitebsk | Yaroslav Vasilievich, Prince of Vitebsk ( Rurikids? )
|
? | 1318 | 1345 husband's accession |
before 1349 | Algirdas | ||
Uliana Alexandrovna of Tver
|
Rurikids )
|
1325 | 1350 | May 1377 husband's death |
Autumn of 1392 | |||
Birutė | - | - | before 1349 | 3/15 August 1382 husband's death |
Fall 1382 | Kęstutis | ||
Jadwiga of Poland | Louis I of Hungary (Anjou-Hungary) |
18 February 1373 | 18 February 1386 | 1392 power passed to Vytautas |
17 July 1399 | Jogaila
| ||
Anna | probably a Rurikid
|
? | around 1370 | 4 August 1392 husband's accession |
31 July 1418 | Vytautas | ||
Uliana Olshansky
|
Olshanski )
|
? | 9 November 1418 | 27 October 1430 husband's death |
1448? | |||
Anna of Tver | Ivan Ivanovich of Tver Rurikid
|
? | 1430? | 1430? | 1 September 1432 power passed to Sigismund Kęstutaitis |
Between 1471 and 1484[5] | Švitrigaila | |
Unknown | Unknown | - | January 1416 | 1 September 1432 husband's accession |
Middle 1434 | Sigismund Kęstutaitis | ||
Elisabeth of Austria
[6] |
Albert II of Germany (Habsburg) |
1435/36/possibly 1437 | 10 March 1454 | 7 June 1492 husband's death |
30 August 1505 | Casimir I | ||
Helena of Moscow [6] |
Rurikids )
|
19 May 1476 | 18 February 1495 | 19 August 1506 husband's death |
20 January 1513 | Alexander | ||
Barbara Zápolya [6] |
Stephen Zápolya (Zápolya) |
1495 | 8 February 1512 | 2 October 1515 | Sigismund I | |||
Bona Sforza [6] |
Gian Galeazzo Sforza (Sforza) |
13 February 1495 | 18 April 1518 in Wawel Cathedral |
1 April 1548 husband's death |
7 November 1558 | |||
Elisabeth of Austria
[6] |
Ferdinand I, Holy Roman Emperor (Habsburg) |
9 July 1526 | 5 May 1543 | 15 June 1545 | Sigismund II Augustus | |||
Barbara Radziwiłł [6] |
Radziwiłł )
|
6 December 1520 | 1547 | 8 May 1551 | ||||
Catherine of Austria
[6] |
Ferdinand I, Holy Roman Emperor (Habsburg) |
15 September 1533 | 23 June 1553 | 28 February 1572 |
Royal consort of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth
Picture | Name | Father | Birth | Marriage | Became Grand Duchess | Ceased to be Grand Duchess | Death | Spouse
|
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Charles II, Archduke of Austria (Habsburg) |
16 August 1573 | 31 May 1592 | 10 February 1598 | Sigismund III | ||||
Constance of Austria [6] |
Charles II, Archduke of Austria (Habsburg) |
24 December 1588 | 11 December 1605 | 10 July 1631 | ||||
Cecilia Renata of Austria [6] |
Ferdinand II, Holy Roman Emperor (Habsburg) |
16 July 1611 | 13 September 1637 | 24 March 1644 | Władysław IV | |||
Ludwika Maria Gonzaga
[6] |
Charles I of Gonzaga, Duke of Mantua )
(Gonzaga |
18 August 1611 | 5 November 1645 | 15 July 1646 | 20 May 1648 husband's death |
10 May 1667 | ||
30 May 1649 | 10 May 1667 | John II
| ||||||
Eleonora Maria Josefa of Austria
[6] |
Ferdinand III, Holy Roman Emperor (Habsburg) |
31 May 1653 | 27 February 1670 | 10 November 1673 husband's death |
17 December 1697 | Michael | ||
Marie Casimire Louise de la Grange d'Arquien
[6] |
Henri Albert de La Grange d'Arquien (La Grange) |
28 June 1641 | 5 July 1665 | 19 May 1674 husband's election |
17 June 1696 husband's death |
1 January 1716 | John III | |
Christiane Eberhardine of Brandenburg-Bayreuth [6][9] |
Christian Ernst, Margrave of Brandenburg-Bayreuth (Hohenzollern) |
19 December 1671 | 20 January 1693 | 15 September 1697 husband's coronation |
1 September 1706 husband's abdication |
4 September 1727 | Augustus II, 1st reign | |
Catherine Opalińska [6] |
Opaliński )
|
13 October 1680 | 10 May 1698 | 12 July 1704 husband's election |
1709 husband's desposation |
19 March 1747 | Stanisław I, 1st reign | |
Christiane Eberhardine of Brandenburg-Bayreuth [6][9] |
Christian Ernst, Margrave of Brandenburg-Bayreuth (Hohenzollern) |
19 December 1671 | 20 January 1693 | 1709 husband's restoration |
4 September 1727 | Augustus II, 2nd reign | ||
Catherine Opalińska [6] |
Opaliński )
|
13 October 1680 | 10 May 1698 | 1733 husband's restoration |
1736 husband's abdication |
19 March 1747 | Stanisław I, 2nd reign | |
Maria Josepha of Austria [6][9] |
Joseph I, Holy Roman Emperor (Habsburg) |
8 December 1699 | 20 August 1719 | 1734 husband's election |
17 November 1757 | Augustus III |
Notes
- ^ Also Kneginja of Galicia.
- ^ Also Kneginja of Kholm.
- LCCN 55020366.
- ISBN 5-420-01535-8.
- ISBN 5-417-00473-1.
- ^ Queen consort of Poland.
- Queen consort of Sweden.
- Grand Duchess consort of Finland.
- ^ Electress and Duchess consort of Saxony.