Jagiello

Unbelievably, the armistice that Grand Master Ulrich von jungingen proposed was accepted by jagiello and his cousin Witold, and for the very reasons that Von Jungingen had outlined: neither side was fully ready for war, and to plunge into one haphazardly might lead to haphazard consequences. ❋ Michener, James (1983)

But Pawel had grown to love these beads so much, imagining them to have lain under the sea for countless years, that he did not deliver them to King jagiello in Krakow. ❋ Michener, James (1983)

And because those few remain after jagiello converted us, the Germans say we're all pagans and that whatever they wish to do is all right, because they're saving us. ' ❋ Michener, James (1983)

'As proof of our claim, we cite the fact that Poland willfully chose as its king the pagan jagiello when it could have taken a proved Christian, Sigismund of Luxembourg, and it forced its saintly Queenjadwiga, daughter of Louis of France, a devoted Christian, to marry jagiello instead of Wilhelm of Habsburg, a true Christian to whom she was legally engaged and to whom she had been married since the age of five. ❋ Michener, James (1983)

King jagiello performed two acts which brought him high praise. ❋ Michener, James (1983)

'Know, Sire, that one of the most grievous faults of King jagiello is the irrefutable fact that he employs in the armies he sends against us Tatar regiments composed solely of infidels. ❋ Michener, James (1983)

The Germans did, and they were set free. jagiello next ordered all captured wine barrels to be split open, lest his troops riot, and Janko, seeing the drink flowing on the ground lamented: 'The only battlefield in history where the blood of the defeated mingled with the wine of the victors, one loss as great as the other! ❋ Michener, James (1983)

This begging was necessary because even a king as strong as jagiello had no real power to make the magnates do anything they did not wish to; they ruled, not he, and if he could not make them see that it was to their advantage to give him an army, he would have none. ❋ Michener, James (1983)

At this perilous moment King jagiello from his hillside far to the rear flashed his long-awaited signal, and from the woods the Polish peasants began to emerge, walking gingerly at first, then half-running with their pitiful wooden weapons in theair, and finally surging forward with cries they might have used in hunting a bear. ❋ Michener, James (1983)