Data urodzin królowej Jadwigi Andegaweńskiej i jej ślubu z Władysławem Jagiełłą w kontekście aktu krewskiego. Uwagi filologa do interpretacji źródeł.
The date of birth of Queen Jadwiga Of Poland and the date of her wedding with Władysław Jagiełło in the context of the Union of Krewo. Philologist’s r

Summary/Abstract: It is generally believed that Queen Jadwiga Of Poland, a saint of the Catholic Church, was born on February 18 in 1374. This date has been deduced from a (corrected) note in a calendar of the cathedral of Cracow, stating that on that day in 1386 Jadwiga married Władysław Jagiełło, having cancelled her engagement to William of Austria to whom she had been betrothed by her parents. Since the engagement could be cancelled only by Jadwiga herself within three days after her twelfth birthday, it is speculated that the day of Jadwiga’s wedding was an anniversary of her birthday, and that it was that day when she cancelled the engagement. In the present article, after a detailed linguistic analysis of the calendar note, juxtaposed with Długosz’s Annales, it is proved that the anniversary of Jadwiga’s birthday was on February 14. This date is confirmed by – indirectly – the Union of Krewo made on August 14 in 1385, six months before Jadwiga officially became mature, as well as the Act of Buda, in which her mother set August 14 as a day before which Jadwiga’s infantile but impossible to cancel matrimonium with William was supposed to happen. There are testimonies that Jagiełło celebrated this anniversary, and that after Jadwiga’s death a solemn mass for the Queen’s soul was said on August 14 in the cathedral in Cracow. The notice of this mass disappeared from the Polish edition of Długosz’s records due to an elementary mistake in translation, and a horrendous comment. The article also discusses and corrects mistakes in translations in a few very important places in the Union of Krewo and the Act of Buda.

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