Poland

Monarchs of Poland

Piast dynasty
900’s-1370

• Mieszko I (c. 935-992), Duke of the Polans and the first historical ruler of Poland.
• Premislas II (1257-1296), Duke of Poznan, Greater Poland, Kraków and Pomerelia, and then King of Poland from 1295.

Line extinct 1370.

Anjou Dynasty
1370-1399

• Louis the Great (1326-1382), King of Hungary from 1342 and King of Poland from 1370.

Kings of Poland and Grand Dukes of Lithuania

Jagiellon Dynasty

1386-1572

• Wladyslaw II Jagiello, (1362-1434), 1377–1381 1382–1386 Supreme Duke of Lithuania 1386–1434, and King of Poland 1386–1434.
• Casimir IV, (1427-1492), Grand Duke of Lithuania from 1440, and King of Poland from 1447. Knight of the Garter.
• Sigismund I the Old (1467-1548), King of Poland and Grand Duke of Lithuania from 1506. Knight of the Golden Fleece.

Line extinct 1572.

Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth

• Henry III of France, (1551-1589), King of France from 1574 to 1589, and as Henry of Valois, first elected King of Poland and Grand Duke of Lithuania from 1573 to 1574.

• Anna Jagiellon, (1523–1596), daughter of Poland's King Sigismund I the Old, elected King of Poland and Grand Duke of Lithuania, wife of Stefan Batory, was the last legitimate member of the Jagiellon dynasty .
• Stefan Batory, (1533- 1586), Prince of Transylvania ( 1571- 1575), King of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth (1575- 1586).

House of Vasa
1587-1668

• Sigismund III Vasa, (1566-1632), and Grand Duke of Lithuania, a monarch of joined from 1587 to 1632, and King of Sweden from 1592 until he was deposed in 1599. Knight of the Golden Fleece.

Line extinct 1672.

• Michal Korybut Wisniowiecki, ( 1640- 1673), King of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth from 1669. Knight of the Golden Fleece.

• John III Sobieski, (1629-1696), King of Poland and Grand Duke of Lithuania from 1674. Knight of the Golden Fleece.

• Frederick Augustus I, ( 1670- 1733), Elector of Saxony 1694-1733, later King of Poland and 1697-1704 and again 1709-1733 as Augustus II. Known as Augustus the Strong. Founder of the Order of the White Eagle in 1698.
  

• Stanislaw I Leszczynski (1677-1766), King of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth from 1704–1709 and 1733, Duke of Lorraine 1737–1766. Knight of the Holy Ghost

• Frederick Augustus II, ( 1696- 1763), Elector of Saxony from 1733, King of Poland and from 1734 as Augustus III. Known as Augustus the Saxon. Founder of the Military Order of Saint Henry.
  

• Stanislaw II August Poniatowski (1732-1798), last King and Grand Duke of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth (1764–95). Founder of the Order of Saint Stanislaus in 1765.
  

Poland partitioned three times; 1772,1793 and 1795 between Prussia, Austria and Russia and ceased to exist as a separate political entity until 1918.