Crown of the Kingdom of Poland

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The Crown of the Kingdom of Poland (Polish: Korona Królestwa Polskiego; Latin: Corona Regni Poloniae), commonly known as the Polish Crown (Polish: Korona Polska), was a political and legal concept that developed in the Kingdom of Poland during the 14th century. It expressed the idea of the kingdom as a permanent political entity, distinct from the person of its reigning monarch and possessing its own rights, institutions, and territories. The concept emerged during the consolidation of the Polish monarchy under the last Piast kings and acquired particular importance under the Angevin dynasty. It increasingly came to signify the continuity and indivisibility of the kingdom, whose lands and rights could not be freely disposed of by the monarch as personal or dynastic property. The Crown also provided a framework for claims to territories formerly associated with the Polish kingdom but lying outside its contemporary borders. From the late 14th century, the Crown played an important role in...

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