List of Polish rulers
Poland was ruled by dukes (c.962-1025, 1032-1076, 1079-1295, 1296-1300 and 1306-1320) and kings (1025-1032, 1076-1079, 1295-1296, 1300-1305 and 1320-1795). The best-known dynasties are the Piast (c.962-1370) and Jagiellonian (1386-1572): intervening and subsequent monarchs were often rulers also of neighboring lands, or princes drawn from foreign dynasties. Polish kingship ended after the third Partition in 1795, and independence was restored on a republican basis in 1918.
Note: only rulers acknowledged as overlords (or high-dukes) of all Poland (usually those who inherited the "royal province of Cracow") are listed.
Early Piast dynasty
Dynastia Piastów (962-1138)Regional division
Rozbicie dzielnicowe (1138-1306)Piast unification (1306-1370)
Angevin dynasty (House of Capet-Anjou)
Dynastia Andegawenów (1370-1386 ?)Jagiellonians
Dynastia Jagiellonów (1386-1572)Electoral kings
Królowie elekcyjni (1572-1795)
Wettin Electors of Saxony of Holy Roman Empire etc (1697-1706, 1709-1766):
Grand Duchy of Warsaw
Ksiestwo Warszawskie (1807-1815) (dependent from France)Congress Kingdom, Kingdom of Poland
(in personal union with Russia)
Kongresówka, Królestwo Polskie (1815-1832)Republic (since 1918)
