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  1. 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 ...

  2. Anna Jagiellon ( Polish: Anna Jagiellonka, Lithuanian: Ana Jogailaitė, German: Anna Jagiellonica) (12 March 1476 – 12 August 1503), was a Polish princess member of the Jagiellonian dynasty and by marriage Duchess of Pomerania . Born in Nieszawa, she was the fifth daughter of King Casimir IV of Poland of Poland and Archduchess Elisabeth of ...

  3. Joanna, Grand Duchess of Tuscany. House. Jagiellon. Father. Vladislaus II of Hungary. Mother. Anne of Foix-Candale. Anna of Bohemia and Hungary (23 July 1503 – 27 January 1547), [1] sometimes known as Anna Jagellonica, was Queen of Germany, Bohemia, and Hungary and Archduchess of Austria as the wife of King Ferdinand I (later Holy Roman ...

  4. 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.

  5. Jan 25, 2016 · Anna Jagiellon was born on 18 October 1523 to King Sigismund I the Old of Poland and Bona Sforza. She spent her childhood in Kraków with two of her sisters, Sophia and Catherine. It was a rather mundane childhood, and she was quite a forgotten child. She was involved in charity and spent her spare time embroidering, sewing and playing chess.

  6. 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 brother, Sigismund II’s, premature death in 1572.

  7. Anna Jagiellon is the 1,329th most popular politician (up from 1,779th in 2019), the 79th most popular biography from Poland (up from 107th in 2019) and the 17th most popular Polish Politician. Anna Jagiellon was the wife of King Sigismund II Augustus of Poland. She was also the mother of King Sigismund III Vasa of Poland.

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