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"Sigismund II Augustus" published on by null. (1520–72),King of Poland, was the son of Sigismund I and Bona Sforza. In 1530, at the age of 10, he was declared co-ruler with his father, and in 1544 ...
Sigismund al II-lea August. Sigismund al II-lea August - în poloneză: Zygmunt II August; în lituaniană: Žygimantas III Augustas I - ( 1 august 1520 - 7 iulie 1572) a fost rege al Poloniei și Mare Duce al Lituaniei, fiind singurul fiu a lui Sigismund I cel Bătrân, acesta urmând-l pe tatăl său sub numele de Sigismund al II-lea, în 1548.
Dec 11, 2022 · Sigismund II August of Poland. From Wikimedia Commons, the free media repository. English: Sigismund II Augustus (1 August 1520 — 7 July 1572) was King of Poland and Grand Duke of Lithuania. Polish: Zygmunt II August, Belarusian: Жыгімонт Аўгуст ( Žygimont Aŭgust, Old Belarusian: Жыкгимонт Август ), Lithuanian ...
The tradition of adopting Augustus as a second or middle name was also observed during the coronation of Stanisław Antoni Poniatowski who became King Stanisław II Augustus in 1764. In 1530, the ten-year-old Sigismund Augustus was crowned by Primate Jan Łaski as co-ruler alongside his father, in accordance with the vivente rege law.
Sigismund II Augustus (Zygmunt II August), King of Poland 1548-1572, was born 1 August 1520, the only son of King Sigismund I the Old of Poland (1467-1548) and Bona Sforza (1494-1557). Sigismund succeeded his father as King of Poland upon his father’s death in 1548.
They say that King Sigismund II Augustus (Zygmunt August) had him summon the spirit of his beloved though prematurely deceased wife, Barbara Radziwiłłówna. The collection of tapestries from the unique collection of Sigismund II Augustus, made in Brussels in the mid-16th century, are the most valuable of all the works of art displayed here ...
Sigismund II or Sigismund Augustus, 1520–72, king of Poland (1548–72). Crowned in 1530 to assure his succession, he assumed the royal functions at the death of his father, Sigismund I. By the Union of Lublin (1569) he transferred his hereditary grand duchy of Lithuania to the Polish crown, creating the unified Polish-Lithuanian state.
