Jadwiga, Poland's Great Queen

by Charlotte Kellogg, Ignace Jan Paderewski (Introduction), Frank H. Simonds

Overview

HERE is the story of a great love and a great sacrifice and of a queen’s work built on that sacrifice. It takes us back five hundred years, to the brilliant court of that King Louis of Hungary who ruled the half of Europe—the court where his gifted youngest daughter, Jadwiga, grew up. It takes us to Vienna, for Jadwiga was betrothed to the young Crown Prince of Austria. Then to Krakow, early capital of Poland, where Jadwiga was called as queen and where she made her supreme renunciation.

Through it and her marriage with the Lithuanian Grand Duke, Jagiello, she brought the last pagan people of Europe into the fold of the Western Church, and raised a barrier against the eastern push of the German soldiers of the Cross, which made possible a Poland stretching from the Baltic to the Black Sea. Thenceforth the union of Poland and Lithuania was known as the “Wedding ring of Jadwiga.”

Through darkest days she kept her faith, until she was reverenced throughout Europe for her holiness and admired for her wisdom. Like Joan of Arc in France, she has been in Poland a symbol of national aspiration and a source of national idealism.

This book represents years of travel and research and has already been accepted by the Polish historical congress. It is important as history and interesting also as the love story of a great woman.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781789127614
Publisher:	Borodino Books
Publication date:	12/02/2018
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	226
File size:	1 MB

About the Author

CHARLOTTE KELLOGG (1874-1960), born Charlotte Hoffman in in 1874 Grand Island, Nebraska, was an author and social activist and wife of American entomologist Vernon Lyman Kellogg. She studied at the University of California, Berkeley, earning a Bachelor of Philosophy degree in 1900. She was head of the English department at the Anna Head School in Berkeley, California from 1903-1907. After marrying Vernon Kellogg in 1908 and giving birth to their daughter Jean in 1910, she traveled to Brussels with Jean in 1916 and worked with the Commission for Relief in Belgium for a year, on special request of the President. Kellogg studied the women of Belgium and later published Women of Belgium: Turning Tragedy to Triumph (1917), and Bobbins of Belgium (1920). When her husband was appointed by Herbert Hoover as an assistant to the United States Food Administration, Kellogg joined him in his work as an internationally active war relief speaker and fund raiser. In 1921, by appointment of President Warren G. Harding, Kellogg escorted Marie Curie on a voyage from Paris to New York, during which she assisted Curie in translating her work, Life of Pierre Curie. Following the death of her husband in 1937, Kellogg continued to write, living in California until her death on May 8, 1960.

IGNACY JAN PADEREWSKI (1860-1941) was a Polish pianist and composer, freemason, politician, statesman, and a spokesman for Polish independence. He was instrumental in obtaining the explicit inclusion of independent Poland as point 13 in President Woodrow Wilson’s peace terms in 1918. He was the Prime Minister of Poland and also Poland’s foreign minister in 1919, and represented Poland at the Paris Peace Conference in 1919.