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Gediminids

Royal dynasty of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania

  • Also called Dinastia de Gediminas
COA of Gediminaičiai dynasty Lithuania
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Overview

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The house, member by member

One family drawn as a tree, then every member, oldest first where a date is recorded.

9 children in the house

  1. Andrei of Polotsk c. 1325 CE – 1399 CE
  2. Demetrius I Starshy 1327 CE – 1399 CE
  3. Kaributas 1350 CE – after 1404 CE
  4. Karigaila 1350 CE – 1390 CE
  5. Skirgaila 1354 CE – 1395 CE
  6. Lengvenis 1356 CE – 1431 CE
  7. Władysław II Jagiełło 1362 CE – 1434 CE
  8. Alexandra of Lithuania between 1368 and 1370 CE – 1434 CE
  9. Švitrigaila / Svidrigiello c. 1370 CE – 1452 CE
One family in Gediminids: members whose records name this parent, oldest first. A parent from another house is on the child’s own page. Open the family tree

Offices held in the house

The members in each office, in order — a selection from the office’s whole line.

Grand Duke of Lithuania

  • 5 holders
  • 2 gaps
  1. 1345 CE – 1377 CE Algirdas Grand Duke of Lithuania (1345–1377)
  2. Gap about 4 years before the next in this house

    1381 CE – 1382 CE Kęstutis Grand Duke of Lithuania (1381–1382)
  3. Gap about 10 years before the next in this house

    4 August 1392 CE – 27 October 1430 CE Vytautas Grand Duke of Lithuania
  4. 1430 CE – 1432 CE Švitrigaila / Svidrigiello Grand Duke of Lituania
  5. 1432 CE – 1440 CE Sigismund Kęstutaitis Lithuanian noble (1365–1440)

Prince of Chernigov

  • 3 holders
  • 3 undated

No dates recorded 3

Prince of Polotsk

  • 3 holders
  • 1 overlap
  • 1 undated
  1. Seal of Lengvenis 1395 from 1379 CE Lengvenis Lithuanian noble
  2. Overlap held at the same time as Lengvenis

    from 1387 CE Skirgaila Grand Duke of Lithuania

No dates recorded 1

Prince of Novgorod-Seversk

  • 2 holders
  • 1 gap
  1. until 1393 CE Kaributas son of the Grand Duke of Lithuania
  2. Gap about 26 years before the next in this house

    1419 CE – 1430 CE Švitrigaila / Svidrigiello Grand Duke of Lituania

Affiliation

From the members’ own records, not the people the house ruled.

Affiliations recorded on members

An affiliation recorded by a third party, often for one period of a life. It is not the religion of anyone this house ruled.

Connections

Affiliation 2

Transmission 1

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