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Barbara Zapolya (fl. 1500) Queen of Poland. Name variations: Barbara Zápolya of Hungary; Szapolyai. Flourished in 1500; sister of John or Jan Zapolya, king of Hungary (r. 1526–1540); first wife of Sigismund I the Elder, king of Poland (r. 1506–1548); children: Hedwig of Poland (1513–1573, who married Joachim II, elector of Brandenburg ...
Historic maps show what downtown San Antonio looked like back in 1885. The 1885 Sanborn Fire Insurance map of downtown San Antonio shows an incredibly detailed look at each block of...
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She was the daughter of Stephen Zápolya, Palatine of Hungary and Count of Szepes, and the Polish princess Hedwig of Cieszyn of the Piast dynasty. Barbara was a younger sister of John Zápolya, the future King of Hungary. The family was well known for their wealth: Stephen had more than 70 castles in Hungary and Slovakia. Her father died in 1499, lea...
In April 1511, Sigismund sent Piotr Tomicki as his envoy to Hungary. Tomicki informed King Vladislaus that his brother sought to wed a Hungarian noblewoman and asked for his assistance in locating a suitable candidate. Vladislaus' trusted physician, bribed by the Polish delegation, suggested Barbara Zápolya and Vladislaus agreed. The ruse worked to...
Despite the age difference, the marriage was happy. The couple traveled together, even when Barbara was late in her pregnancy. Their first daughter Hedwig was born on 15 March 1513 in Poznań. After two months, Sigismund and Barbara departed towards Vilnius to attend to the renewed war with the Grand Duchy of Moscow. The two-month-old Hedwig was sen...
Jan 4, 2021 · Barbara Zapolya (Szapolyai Borbála) (1495–1515) was the daughter of Stephen Zápolya (István Szapolyai), Palatine of Hungary, and the Silesian princess Hedwig of Teschen. She was Queen of Poland and Grand Duchess of Lithuania (1508-1515) as the first wife of Sigismund I the Old.
The proposed project location is on McCullough Avenue south of Barbara Drive in San Antonio, Texas. The purpose of the project is to replace the concrete-lined open channel located between McCullough Avenue and the confluence of box culverts approximately 800 ft east of McCullough Avenue. The project will also reconstruct McCullough Avenue
Map of the estates of the Zápolya family by Bálint Hóman. The first known member of the family was one Ladislaus Vajdafi Szapolyai, who was a Slavonian nobleman with estates in former Požega County. Most notably the today small eponymous village Zapolje in Rešetari municipality, Brod-Posavina county.
