- Rymgajla
Rymgajla (also Rimgaila, Ringaila, _lt. Rimgailė, _pl. Ryngałła), baptised "Elisabeth",cn|date=December 2007 was daughter of
Kęstutis ofLithuania andBirutė , and thus sister ofVytautas the Great . "Rimgailė" is a typical dual-stemmed paganLithuanian name constructed from "rim"- (rimti - "be calm") + "gail"- (*gailas - "strong"), which is quite common in Lithuania at present. [lt icon [http://day.lt/vardai/Rimgail%EB Meaning of the name] ]By marriage with
Henry of Masovia , she was Princess ofMasovia for about one year, until the death of her husband (winter of 1392–1393). [Gudavičius, Edvardas (1999). Lietuvos istorija. Nuo seniausių laikų iki 1569 metų, p.173. ISBN 9986-39-112-1.]Jan Długosz in his chronicles wrote that to marry her Henry resigned from the title ofBishop of Płock . She was among the suspects in death of Henry.Her second marriage (1419-1421) was with
Alexander the Good ,Voivode ofMoldavia 1400–1432. Upon the politically-motivated divorce she was given land with 40 villages. Also, as part of the divorce settlement Alexander the Good promised to pay her lifetime income worth 600 Hungarian gold ducats or florins payable in two installments. [Octavian Iliescu, " [http://www.numismatics.org/dpubs/nonxml/Iliescu2002.doc The History of Coins in Romania] ", "Editura Encyclopedica", Bucharest, 2002 ]References
* http://genealog.home.pl/gd/szablony/osoba.php?lang&id=000514
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