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The consort (or spouse) of the royal rulers of Lithuania and of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth was in all cases a woman and nearly all took the title of Grand Duchess.

Queen consort of Lithuania

Morta and her sister were the only Queens of Lithuania; her successors took the title of "Grand Duchess" instead.

The short-lived Kingdom of Lithuania of 1918 had a King-Elect Mindaugas II of Lithuania: but his first wife, Duchess Amalie in Bavaria, had died six years earlier, and his second marriage, to Princess Wiltrud of Bavaria, occurred six years after the Kingdom was replaced by a Republic.

Grand Duchess of Lithuania

Mindaugas Dynasty

Gediminid Dynasty

Picture	Name	Father	Birth	Marriage	Became Grand Duchess	Ceased to be Grand Duchess	Death	Spouse
	Vida	Vidmund	It is uncertain how many wives Gediminas had. The Bychowiec Chronicle mentions three wives: Vida from Courland; Olga from Smolensk; and Jaunė from Polotsk, who was Eastern Orthodox and died in 1344 or 1345. Most modern historians and reference works say Gediminas' wife was Jaunė, dismissing Vida and Olga as fictitious, since no sources other than this chronicle mention the other two wives.					Gediminas
	Olga Vsevolodovna of Smolensk	Vsevolod of Smolensk (Rurikids?)
	Jaunė (Ievna Ivanovna of Polotsk)	Ivan Vsevolodich, Prince of Polotsk (Rurikids?)	?	-		Winter of 1341 husband's death	1344/5
	Maria Yaroslavna of Vitebsk	Yaroslav Vasilievich, Prince of Vitebsk (Rurikids?)	?	1318	1345 husband's accession	before 1349		Algirdas
	Uliana Alexandrovna of Tver	Aleksandr Mikhailovich of Tver (Rurikids)	1325	1350		May 1377 husband's death	Autumn of 1392
	Birutė	-	-	before 1349		3/15 August 1382 husband's death	Fall 1382	Kęstutis
	Jadwiga of Poland	Louis I of Hungary (Anjou-Hungary)	18 February 1373	18 February 1386		1392 power passed to Vytautas	17 July 1399	Jogaila
	Anna	probably a Lithuanian noble or a Rurikid	?	around 1370	4 August 1392 husband's accession	31 July 1418		Vytautas
	Uliana Olshansky	Ivan Olshansky (Olshanski)	?	9 November 1418		27 October 1430 husband's death	1448?
	Anna of Tver	Ivan Ivanovich of Tver Rurikid	?	1430?	1430?	1 September 1432 power passed to Sigismund Kęstutaitis	Between 1471 and 1484	Švitrigaila
	Unknown	Unknown	-	January 1416	1 September 1432 husband's accession	Middle 1434		Sigismund Kęstutaitis
	Elisabeth of Austria	Albert II of Germany (Habsburg)	1435/36/possibly 1437	10 March 1454		7 June 1492 husband's death	30 August 1505	Casimir I
	Helena of Moscow	Ivan III of Russia (Rurikids)	19 May 1476	18 February 1495		19 August 1506 husband's death	20 January 1513	Alexander
	Barbara Zápolya	Stephen Zápolya (Zápolya)	1495	8 February 1512		2 October 1515		Sigismund I
	Bona Sforza	Gian Galeazzo Sforza (Sforza)	13 February 1495	18 April 1518 in Wawel Cathedral		1 April 1548 husband's death	7 November 1558
	Elisabeth of Austria	Ferdinand I, Holy Roman Emperor (Habsburg)	9 July 1526	5 May 1543		15 June 1545		Sigismund II Augustus
	Barbara Radziwiłł	Jerzy Radziwiłł (Radziwiłł)	6 December 1520	1547		8 May 1551
	Catherine of Austria	Ferdinand I, Holy Roman Emperor (Habsburg)	15 September 1533	23 June 1553		28 February 1572

Royal consort of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth

Picture	Name	Father	Birth	Marriage	Became Grand Duchess	Ceased to be Grand Duchess	Death	Spouse
	Anna of Austria	Charles II, Archduke of Austria (Habsburg)	16 August 1573	31 May 1592		10 February 1598		Sigismund III
	Constance of Austria	Charles II, Archduke of Austria (Habsburg)	24 December 1588	11 December 1605		10 July 1631
	Cecilia Renata of Austria	Ferdinand II, Holy Roman Emperor (Habsburg)	16 July 1611	13 September 1637		24 March 1644		Władysław IV
	Ludwika Maria Gonzaga	Charles I of Gonzaga, Duke of Mantua (Gonzaga)	18 August 1611	5 November 1645	15 July 1646	20 May 1648 husband's death	10 May 1667
				30 May 1649		10 May 1667		John II
	Eleonora Maria Josefa of Austria	Ferdinand III, Holy Roman Emperor (Habsburg)	31 May 1653	27 February 1670		10 November 1673 husband's death	17 December 1697	Michael
	Marie Casimire Louise de la Grange d'Arquien	Henri Albert de La Grange d'Arquien (La Grange)	28 June 1641	5 July 1665	19 May 1674 husband's election	17 June 1696 husband's death	1 January 1716	John III
	Christiane Eberhardine of Brandenburg-Bayreuth	Christian Ernst, Margrave of Brandenburg-Bayreuth (Hohenzollern)	19 December 1671	20 January 1693	15 September 1697 husband's coronation	1 September 1706 husband's abdication	4 September 1727	Augustus II, 1st reign
	Catherine Opalińska	Jan Karol Opaliński (Opaliński)	13 October 1680	10 May 1698	12 July 1704 husband's election	1709 husband's desposation	19 March 1747	Stanisław I, 1st reign
	Christiane Eberhardine of Brandenburg-Bayreuth	Christian Ernst, Margrave of Brandenburg-Bayreuth (Hohenzollern)	19 December 1671	20 January 1693	1709 husband's restoration	4 September 1727		Augustus II, 2nd reign
	Catherine Opalińska	Jan Karol Opaliński (Opaliński)	13 October 1680	10 May 1698	1733 husband's restoration	1736 husband's abdication	19 March 1747	Stanisław I, 2nd reign
	Maria Josepha of Austria	Joseph I, Holy Roman Emperor (Habsburg)	8 December 1699	20 August 1719	1734 husband's election	17 November 1757		Augustus III

Notes

1. Also Kneginja of Galicia.
2. Also Kneginja of Kholm.
3. (in Lithuanian) Ivinskis, Zenonas (1953–1966). "Jaunė". Lietuvių enciklopedija. Vol. IX. Boston, Massachusetts: Lietuvių enciklopedijos leidykla. p. 335. LCCN 55020366.
4. Vytautas Spečiūnas, ed. (2004). "Jaunutis". Lietuvos valdovai (XIII-XVIII a.): enciklopedinis žinynas (in Lithuanian). Vilnius: Mokslo ir enciklopedijų leidybos institutas. pp. 38, 46. ISBN 5-420-01535-8.
5. Matusas, Jonas (1991). Švitrigaila Lietuvos didysis kunigaikštis (2nd ed.). Vilnius: Mintis. p. 166. ISBN 5-417-00473-1.
6. ^ Also Queen consort of Poland.
7. Also Queen consort of Sweden.
8. Also Grand Duchess consort of Finland.
9. ^ Also Electress and Duchess consort of Saxony.

Sources

• Grand duchesses of Lithuania
• Lithuania politics-related lists
• Lists of queens
• Lists of duchesses
• Lists of royal consorts