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Sigismund II Augustus ( Polish: Zygmunt II August, Lithuanian: Žygimantas Augustas; 1 August 1520 – 7 July 1572) was King of Poland and Grand Duke of Lithuania, the son of Sigismund I the Old, whom Sigismund II succeeded in 1548. He was the first ruler of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth and the last male monarch from the Jagiellonian ...
- 10 February 1574, Wawel Cathedral, Kraków, Poland
- Bona Sforza
Apr 8, 2024 · Sigismund II Augustus (born Aug. 1, 1520, Kraków, Pol.—died July 7, 1572, Knyszyn) was the last Jagiellon king of Poland, who united Livonia and the duchy of Lithuania with Poland, creating a greatly expanded and legally unified kingdom. The only son of Sigismund I the Old and Bona Sforza, Sigismund II was elected and crowned coruler with ...
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Sigismund Augustus was a patron of writers, a music lover, a collector of arrases, and the founder of the first large royal library in Poland. After the early death of Barbara (1551), the king, pressed by advisers who wanted to see an heir to the throne, married Catherine of Austria, daughter of the emperor Ferdinand I; this was an unhappy ...
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Domestic politics under Sigismund—and even more so under his son and successor, Sigismund II Augustus (reigned 1548–72)—centered on a contest between the fast-growing magnate oligarchy and the dynamic gentry, with the rulers generally favoring the former. The option of relying on the burghers, as was done by western European rulers, was ...
Domestic politics under Sigismund—and even more so under his son and successor, Sigismund II Augustus (reigned 1548–72)—centred on a contest between the fast-growing magnate oligarchy and the dynamic gentry, with the rulers generally favouring the former. The option of relying on the burghers, as was done by western European rulers, was ...
And the same goes for the Renaissance ruler of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth: born five hundred years ago, Sigismund II Augustus, son of Sigismund I and Bona Sforza of Milan, the last of the Jagiellonian family. It seems he basked in the full glory of the Polish “golden age” from the moment of his birth.
Sigismund II Augustus ( Polish: Zygmunt II August, Lithuanian: Žygimantas Augustas; 1 August 1520 – 7 July 1572) was King of Poland and Grand Duke of Lithuania, the son of Sigismund I the Old, whom Sigismund II succeeded in 1548. He was the first ruler of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth and the last male monarch from the Jagiellonian ...
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