Gediminas
Titles

Gediminas' normal Latin style is as follows:

Which translates as:

In his letters to the papacy in 1322 and 1323, he adds Princeps et Dux Semigalliae (Prince and Duke of Semigallia). In contemporary Low German he is styled simply Koningh van Lettowen, mirroring the Latin Rex Lethowyae (both meaning "King of Lithuania"). Gediminas' right to use the Latin rex, which the papacy had been claiming the right to grant from the 13th century onwards, was not universally recognized in Catholic sources. Thus, he was called rex sive dux ("King or Duke") in one source; Pope John XXII, in a letter to the King of France, referred to Gediminas as "the one who calls himself rex ". However, the pope did call Gediminas rex when addressing him (regem sive ducem, "king or duke").

German sources also titled Gediminas as Rex de Owsteiten (English: King of Aukštaitija).
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