Emily Garmon

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marrying Jagiełło and working alongside him as joint ruler, she ensured a dynastic relationship between Poland and Lithuania that would last four centuries. She also ensured the conversion of the last pagan country in Europe, and many Lithuanians still hold to that faith today; it is the country with the highest density of Catholics in all the Baltic states.48
Femina: A New History of the Middle Ages, Through the Women Written Out of It
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