Anna of Celje (Part I)

Abstract

Anna of Celje was the first member of the family of Counts of Celje who managed to rise to royalty due to a fortunate turn of events. After her wedding to King of Poland and Grand Prince of Lithuania Władislaw II Jagiełło in 1402, she became queen of Poland and thus largely improved the reputation of the House of Celje. The paper sheds light to Anna’s life as outlined by the preserved sources; in the fi rst part, it points to her fi rm embeddedness in the Celje family and follows her journey to Poland, highlighting that upon her arrival in Krakow she was received as a legitimate heiress to the Polish throne.