A Ruthenian town associated with the death of Wladyslaw II Jagiello in 1434.
Horodok belonged to the eastern lands connected to the Jagiellonian monarchy and the multiethnic Polish-Lithuanian political world.
Wladyslaw II Jagiello died at Horodok in 1434. His death transferred rule to his young son Wladyslaw III and left the Jagiellonian settlement to be managed by nobles and royal advisers.
The town matters here because it marks the end of the ruler whose conversion, marriage, and victory at Grunwald reshaped eastern Europe.