List of Polish rulers

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Surname gender title Reign Remarks
Lech Duke of the Polans Legend
Krak Duke of the Wislanes Legend
Popiel Duke of the Polans 840-870 Legend
Siemowit Piasts Duke of the Polans 870-900 Historicity questionable
Lestek Piasts Duke of the Polans 900-930 Historicity questionable
Siemomysł Piasts Duke of the Polans 930-960 Historicity questionable
Mieszko I. Piasts Duke of Poland 960-992
Bolesław I the Brave Piasts Duke of Poland
from 1025 King of Poland
992-1025 Personal union of Poland with Bohemia 1003–1004.
First King of Poland.
Matylda wrecza mieszkowi II ksiege liturgiczna.jpg Mieszko II. Lambert Piasts 1025-1031 King of Poland 1025-1031 As King (I.)
Second King of Poland.
Bezprym Piasts Duke of Poland 1031-1032
Matylda wrecza mieszkowi II ksiege liturgiczna.jpg Mieszko II. Lambert Piasts since 1032 Duke of Poland 1032-1034 (again)
Casimir I the innovator Piasts Duke of Poland 1034-1058
Bolesław II the Bold Piasts Duke of Poland
from 1076 King of Poland
1058-1079 Third King of Poland.
Wladyslaw I. Herman Piasts Duke of Poland 1079-1102
Zbigniew Piasts Duke of Poland 1102-1107
Bolesław III. Crooked mouth Piasts Duke of Poland 1102-1138 Introduction of the seniorate in 1138. Lesser Poland with Krakow designated as a seniorate province . The eldest of the Piast family, senior duke (Princeps) of Poland, thereby primacy over all Polish duchies. 1177 Constitutional collapse due to a coup under Casimir II; confirmed in the Diet of Łęczyca in 1180.
Władysław II. The expellee Piasts Senior Duke of Poland 1138-1146
Bolesław IV. The frizzy Piasts Senior Duke of Poland 1146-1173
Mieszko III. the old Piasts Senior Duke of Poland 1173-1177
Casimir II the Just Piasts Senior Duke of Poland 1177-1194
Leszek I the White Piasts Senior Duke of Poland 1194-1198
Mieszko III. the old Piasts Senior Duke of Poland 1198-1202 (again)
Wladyslaw III. Thin leg Piasts Senior Duke of Poland 1202-1206
Leszek I the White Piasts Senior Duke of Poland 1206-1210 (again)
Mieszko IV. Sacrum Piasts Senior Duke of Poland 1210-1211
Leszek I the White Piasts Senior Duke of Poland 1211-1227 (again)
Wladyslaw III. Thin leg Piasts Senior Duke of Poland 1228-1229 (again)
Conrad of Mazovia Piasts Senior Duke of Poland 1229-1232
Henry I the Bearded Piasts Senior Duke of Poland 1232-1238
Henry II the Pious Piasts Senior Duke of Poland 1238-1241
Boleslaw II the savage Piasts Senior Duke of Poland 1241
Conrad of Mazovia Piasts Senior Duke of Poland 1241-1243 (again)
Bolesław V. the Shameful Piasts Senior Duke of Poland 1243-1279
Leszek II the black Piasts Senior Duke of Poland 1279-1288
Codex Manesse Heinrich von Breslau.jpg Henry IV Probus Piasts Senior Duke of Poland 1288-1290
Przemysł II. Piasts 1290–1291
Senior Duke of Poland
from 1295 King of Poland
1290-1296 With his coronation as Polish king, the central power was strengthened again.
Fourth king of Poland.
Codex Manesse Wenceslaus II of Bohemia.jpg Wenceslas II Premyslids from 1291 Duke in Krakow , until 1295 Senior Duke of Poland
from 1300 King of Poland
1300-1305 Personal union of Bohemia with Poland 1300–1305.
Fifth King of Poland.
Wenzel3.jpg Wenceslaus III Premyslids King of Poland 1305-1306 Just a titular king , never crowned.
WŁokietek.JPG Władysław I. A cubit long Piasts from 1306 duke in Krakow
from 1320 king of Poland
1306-1333 As king ( I. )
Pieczec Kazimierz Wielki.jpg Casimir I the Great Piasts King of Poland 1333-1370 As king ( I. )
Louis I of Poland and Hungary.PNG Ludwig Capetian
house Anjou
King of Poland 1370-1382 Personal union of Hungary with Poland 1370–1382.
Jadwiga Andegaweńska.jpg Hedwig / Jadwiga Capetian
house Anjou
Queen of Poland 1382-1399 From 1386 together with Grand Duke Jogaila (Jagiello) ; Personal union of Lithuania with Poland until 1569, then real union .
Jogaila (Władysław II) .jpg Władysław II Jagiełło Jagiellonian King of Poland 1386-1434
Jagelló Ulászló.jpg Wladyslaw III. from Varna Jagiellonian King of Poland 1434-1444 King Władysław was also King of Hungary from 1440. He died in 1444 in the Battle of Varna while saving the Eastern Roman Empire in the fight against the Ottoman Turks . Personal union of Hungary with Poland 1440–1444.
Casimir IV Jagiellon.jpg Casimir II of the Jagiellonian Jagiellonian King of Poland 1447-1492 As king ( II. );
Johann Albrecht of Poland.jpg Johann I. Albrecht Jagiellonian King of Poland 1492-1501
Alexander of Poland.jpg Alexander the Jagiellone Jagiellonian King of Poland 1501-1506
Cranach the Younger Sigismund I the Old.jpg Sigismund I the Old Jagiellonian King of Poland 1506-1548
Sigismund II Augustus.PNG Sigismund II August I. Jagiellonian King of Poland 1548-1572 King Sigismund August was the last Polish king from the Jagiellonian dynasty. During his reign, the personal union between Poland and Lithuania was transformed into a real union. Poland-Lithuania became an aristocratic republic in 1569 with a king elected by the nobility .
Anjou 1570louvre.jpg Henry of Valois Capetian
House of Valois
King of Poland 1573-1574
Anna Jagiellonka król.jpg Anna Jagiellonica Jagiellonian Queen of Poland 1574–1575, formally until 1587
Kober Stephen Bathory.jpg Stephan Báthory Báthory King of Poland 1575-1586
Sigismund at horse.jpg Sigismund III. Wasa King of Poland 1587-1632 King Sigismund Wasa was King of Sweden from 1592 until he was deposed by the Swedish Diet in 1599 . Personal union between Sweden and Poland-Lithuania 1592–1599.
Wladyslaw IV.jpg Wladyslaw IV. Wasa King of Poland 1632-1648
Schultz John II Casimir.jpg John II Casimir Wasa King of Poland 1648-1668
Michał Korybut Wiśniowiecki.PNG Michael Korybut Wiśniowiecki Wiśniowiecki King of Poland 1669-1673
Schultz John III Sobieski.jpg Johann III. Sobieski Sobieski King of Poland 1674-1696
Stolpen-August.der.Stark.JPG August II the Strong Wettiner King of Poland 1697-1704 August the Strong was already elector of Saxony when he was crowned King of Poland . Personal union of the Electorate of Saxony with Poland-Lithuania 1697–1763.
Stanislaw Leszczynski1.jpg Stanislaus I. Leszczyński Leszczyński King of Poland 1704-1709 With the support of King Karl XII. set up by Sweden as an opposing king in 1704 and elected king by part of the Polish nobility and crowned in 1705.
Stolpen-August.der.Stark.JPG August II the Strong Wettiner King of Poland 1709-1733 (again)
Stanislaw Leszczynski1.jpg Stanislaus I. Leszczyński Leszczyński King of Poland 1733-1736 (again); In 1733 he was elected King of Poland by a clear majority to succeed Augustus the Strong. Removed from power by Russian and Saxon troops with political support from Austria as part of the War of the Polish Succession .
King Augustus III of Poland.jpg August III. Wettiner King of Poland 1733-1763
Bacciarelli Stanislaus Augustus in coronation robes.jpg Stanislaus II August Poniatowski Poniatowski King of Poland 1764-1795

During the third partition of Poland in 1795, the kingdom was dissolved. From 1807 to 1815 the Duchy of Warsaw existed as a satellite state of Napoleon . Duke was King Friedrich August I of Saxony , grandson of the penultimate King of Poland August III. At the Congress of Vienna in 1815, an autonomous "Kingdom of Poland", also called Congress Poland , was created in personal union with Russia . The Russian tsars Alexander I and Nicholas I were crowned kings of Poland . With the November uprising and the deposition of the Romanov dynasty by the Polish Sejm , Congress Poland lost its autonomy in 1831 and was downgraded to the status of an ordinary Russian province and incorporated directly into the Russian Empire . From 1916 to 1918 there was a reign of Poland (without a king, but with a three-member Regency Council) as a satellite state of the Central Powers .

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