Oczekiwanie na dziecko w rodzinie królewskiej w Polsce w XV i XVI wieku
Expecting a Child in the Royal Family in the 15th and 16th Century Poland

Summary/Abstract: The image childhood of royal children is a necessary addition to that of childhood in medieval andmodern Poland. It should be noted that the expectation of a royal child had two dimensions, a readilyapparent public one and a difficult-to-trace private one. A queen’s destiny for motherhood wasemphasised in the process of her becoming the queen, which was divided into stages. In the historythe Jagiellonian wives as mothers — six out of eleven wives were also mothers — there were numeroussuccessful deliveries but there were also some miscarriages. The important issues in the researchon this period include the queens’ behaviour during their pregnancies, their relationships with thehusbands, their following of medical, healthcare, and midwife recommendations, their undertakingof various activities, the securing of the needs of the expected child, and, finally, the way they usedthis time to build their position and the image of queenship.

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