Butautas
Sign in to savethumb|St. Thomas' Church in Prague, the burial place of Butautas Butautas (baptized Henryk; died on May 7, 1380, in Prague) was a son of Kęstutis, Grand Duke of Lithuania. He attempted to depose his uncle Algirdas and usurp power in Lithuania, but failed and was forced into exile. He joined the court of the Holy Roman Emperor and even inspired a poem about conversion to Christianity. Butautas is sometimes confused with his brother Vaidotas.
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- Gender
- male
- Place of birth
- Trakai
- Place of death
- Prague
- Father
- Kęstutis
- Mother
- Birutė
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- Rymgajla
- Position held
- knyaz
- Languages spoken
- Lithuanian
- Family
- Gediminids
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- date of birth
- 1346-00-00
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- St Thomas' Church
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- Coup and escape to Teutonic Knights
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thumb|St. Thomas' Church in Prague, the burial place of Butautas Butautas (baptized Henryk; died on May 7, 1380, in Prague) was a son of Kęstutis, Grand Duke of Lithuania. He attempted to depose his uncle Algirdas and usurp power in Lithuania, but failed and was forced into exile. He joined the court of the Holy Roman Emperor and even inspired a poem about conversion to Christianity. Butautas is sometimes confused with his brother Vaidotas.
Butautas' son Jonas Vaidutis in 1401 became the Rector of the Jagiellonian University in Kraków.
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