Anna of Cilli

Anne of Celje (1381 – May 21, 1416) was Queen of Poland and Grand Duchess of Lithuania, 1402–1416 as second wife of Jogaila, King of Poland and Grand Duke of Lithuania (reigned 1387–1434).

Anne of Celje was born as the only daughter of William (1361–1392), Count of Celje and his wife Anne of Poland (1366–1425), the youngest surviving daughter of the late king Casimir III of Poland (1309–1370).

When Wladyslaw Jagiello's first wife the reigning queen Jadwiga of Poland, young Anne's second cousin, had died in 1399 (without surviving children), Wladyslaw sought a wife amongst heirs to the kingdom of Poland, Jadwiga's patrimony. The about 50-year-old king married the 21-year-old Anne in 1402.

Her mother, Anne of Poland, tried to gain influence in Poland, mostly to advance her daughter's and granddaughter's position.

Anne bore an only surviving daughter, Hedwig Jagiellon (1408–1431) to her husband, and then died in 1416, at about the age of 35.

Jogaila then married in 1417 Elisabeth of Pilica, and in 1422 Sophia of Halshany, both of whom did not descend from Piast kings of Poland, as Jogaila was not able to find any more brides with a hereditary right to the kingdom of Poland. Jogaila's sons and heirs were born of Sophia.

A party of Polish nobles wanted Hedwig and her future husband to succeed Jogaila (in Poland at least), instead of her father's sons by Sofia.

In 1425 the late Anne's mother Anne, Countess of Celje, died and in 1431 her daughter Hedwig died without issue. Anne's descent went extinct before Jogaila's death.