"St. Hedwig" redirects here. For the 14th-century queen and saint, see Jadwiga of Poland. For other uses, see St. Hedwig (disambiguation).
Saint
Hedwig of Silesia
Saint Hedwig of Silesia with Duke Louis I of Brzeg and Duchess Agnés, Hedwig Codex, Lubin, 1353 (now in the J. Paul Getty Museum, California[1])
Born
1174 Andechs, Bavaria, Holy Roman Empire
Died
15 October 1243 (aged 68–69) Trzebnica Abbey, Silesia, Kingdom of Poland
Venerated in
Catholic Church
Canonized
26 March 1267 by Pope Clement IV
Major shrine
Andechs Abbey and St. Hedwig's Cathedral in Berlin
Feast
16 October; moved to 20 October in Canada)
Attributes
wearing a church model or a pair of shoes in her hands
Patronage
Andechs Abbey, Brandenburg, Dioceses of Berlin and Görlitz, Kraków, Poland, Silesia,[2] its capital Wrocław, Trzebnica, orphans
Hedwig of Silesia (Polish: Święta Jadwiga Śląska), also Hedwig of Andechs (German: Heilige Hedwig von Andechs, Latin: Hedvigis; 1174 – 15 October 1243), a member of the Bavarian comital House of Andechs, was Duchess of Silesia from 1201 and of Greater Poland from 1231 as well as High Duchess consort of Poland from 1232 until 1238. She was canonized by the Catholic Church in 1267 by Pope Clement IV.
^"Saint Hedwig of Silesia with Duke Ludwig I of Liegnitz and Brieg and Duchess Agnes", The J. Paul Getty Museum
^Knoblich, Augustin. Lebensgeschichte der heiligen Hedwig, Herzogin und Landespatronin von Schlesien. 1174-1243. Schletter, Breslau 1860 (Digitalisat)
tell the life of Saint Hedwig, High Duchess of Poland and Silesia, her family, and events related to her canonization in 1267. The Hedwig Codex details...
Saint Hedwig may refer to: Saint HedwigofSilesia, 13th-century saint Saint Jadwiga of Poland, 14th-century saint also known as Hedwig Saint Hedwig, Texas...
her distant ancestor, Saint HedwigofSilesia, who was especially venerated in the Hungarian royal court at the time of her birth. King Louis, who had...
years of marriage to Rupert, Hedwig died. She was buried in Silesia. Jerzy Jan Lerski, Piotr Wróbel, Richard J. Kozicki, Historical dictionary of Poland...
Upper Silesia plebiscite was a plebiscite mandated by the Versailles Treaty and carried out on 20 March 1921 to determine ownership of the province of Upper...
their lands in Silesia where they lived under Imperial protection. The failure to produce a living son was still a pressure upon Hedwig Elisabeth, but...
Henryk II Pobożny; 1196 – 9 April 1241) was Duke ofSilesia and High Duke of Poland as well as Duke of South-Greater Poland from 1238 until his death....
margravine of Meissen (b. 1212) June 26 – Dardin Shervashidze, Georgian nobleman August 16 – Stepan Tverdislavich, Russian posadnik October 15 – Hedwigof Silesia...
1591–1657) Saint Florian of Lorch (święty Florian; died c. 304) Saint Wenceslaus (święty Wacław; c. 907–953) Saint HedwigofSilesia (święta Jadwiga Śląska;...
of Casimir of Bytom, Queen consort of Hungary Beatrice ofSilesia, daughter of Bolko I the Strict, Queen of the Romans Hedwigof Kalisz, daughter of Bolesław...
was the son of Berthold IV, Duke of Merania and Agnes of Rochlitz, and a brother of Saint HedwigofSilesia and Gertrude of Merania, Queen of Hungary. In...
middle of the arc, in the form of white and black eagle on the wings; this remained as the emblem ofSilesia. By 1188, Henry married Hedwigof Andechs...
king of Hungary and Croatia (d. 1204) Gerard of Villamagna, Italian hermit (d. 1242) HedwigofSilesia, duchess of Greater Poland (d. 1243) Ingeborg of Denmark...
heads of state of Poland. Currently, the president of Poland is the head of state of the country. See: Poland in the Early Middle Ages Most of these rulers...
is a medieval genealogy ofHedwigofSilesia which was included in Vita sanctae Hedwigis. It was written in 1300. The author of Genealogia was a Franciscan...
priest of the parish of St. Stanisław Kostka in Zielona Góra, and in 2021 he was appointed pastor of the Co-Cathedral of St. HedwigofSilesia in Zielona...
dignity and vocation of women: Olga of Kiev, Matilda of Tuscany, HedwigofSilesia, Jadwiga of Poland and Elizabeth of Hungary. The first Russian ruler to...
Global Information