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Jewna

Wife of Gediminas, Grand Duke of Lithuania · Lived 1280 to 1344 · aged 64

Jaunė was daughter of Prince Ivan of Polatsk and wife of Gediminas, the Grand Duke of Lithuania (1316-1341). She is mentioned in written sources only once - the Bychowiec Chronicle, a late and unreliable source.

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Therefore, some historians cast a serious doubt on her existence, but modern reference works still widely cite her as the ancestress of the Gediminids dynasty.

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Lived 1280 to 1344 · aged 64