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Anna Jagiellon by Lucas Cranach the Younger, 1553. The issue of marriage of the youngest three Jagiellon sisters was neglected by both their parents. [2] Only after their father's death in 1548, the first serious candidate for a husband emerged – Albert Alcibiades, Margrave of Brandenburg-Kulmbach , but he was a Hohenzollern and a Protestant ...
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Anna Jagiellon ( Polish: Anna Jagiellonka, Lithuanian: Ana...
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Joanna, Grand Duchess of Tuscany. House. Jagiellon. Father....
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Died: 9 September 1596. Country most active: Poland, Lithuania. Also known as: Ona Jogailaitė, Anna Jagiellonka. Anna Jagiellon (1523-1596) has the distinction of being the only woman in the early modern period to stand in a royal election—and the only woman to have won one, too. Anna rose to political prominence in the aftermath of her ...
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Jagiellon dynasty, family of monarchs of Poland-Lithuania, Bohemia, and Hungary that became one of the most powerful in east central Europe in the 15th and 16th centuries. The dynasty was founded by Jogaila, the grand duke of Lithuania, who married Queen Jadwiga of Poland in 1386, converted to.
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ANNA JAGIELLON (1523– 1596) was a Jagiellonian princess, the daughter of King Sigismund the Old of Poland and Bona Sforza. Anna's political career started when her brother, Sigismund II August, died in 1572, leaving his three sisters, Anna, Sophie, and Catherine, the heiresses to his considerable wealth.
Jagiellon Kings of Bohemia and Hungary: Vladislaus II of Bohemia and Hungary (Vladislaus Jagiello) Louis II of Hungary and Bohemia (Louis Jagiello). By Louis' sudden death in Battle of Mohács in 1526, that royal line was extinguished in male line. Anna of Bohemia and Hungary, Queen consort, sister of Louis.
