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Roman Catholicism. Signature. Sigismund III Vasa ( Polish: Zygmunt III Waza, Lithuanian: Žygimantas Vaza; 20 June 1566 – 30 April 1632 N.S.) was King of Poland and Grand Duke of Lithuania from 1587 to 1632 and, as Sigismund, King of Sweden and Grand Duke of Finland from 1592 to 1599. He was the first Polish sovereign from the House of Vasa.
- 19 August 1587 – 30 April 1632
- Catherine Jagiellon
Apr 30, 2024 · Sigismund III Vasa (born June 20, 1566, Gripsholm, Swed.—died April 30, 1632, Warsaw, Pol.) was the king of Poland (1587–1632) and of Sweden (1592–99) who sought to effect a permanent union of Poland and Sweden but instead created hostile relations and wars between the two states lasting until 1660.
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Royal titles in Latin: Sigismundus Tertius Dei gratia rex Poloniæ, magnus dux Lithuaniæ, Russiæ, Prussiæ, Masoviæ, Samogitiæ, Livoniæque, necnon Suecorum, Gothorum Vandalorumque hæreditarius rex.
He was born at Gripsholm during his parents' imprisonment by King Eric XIV. Although Sweden was Protestant, Sigismund was raised a Catholic. This fact, combined with the troublesome personal union, would later strike back at his attempts to find support in Sweden. His mother, Katarzyna Jagiellonka, was the daughter of Sigismund I the Old and his wi...
Sigismund III Vasa is mainly remembered for his part in initiating and perpetuating a series of wars that coincided with his own futile struggle for full control of a Polish-Swedish Commonwealth. During his lifetime, he would have a hand in drawing his subjects into the harrowing Thirty Years' War and effectively leading Polandto the end of its Gol...
Lukowski, Jerzy, and Hubert Zawadzki. 2001. A Concise History of Poland. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 0521559170.Kieniewicz, Stefan. 1984. Warszawa w latach 1526-1795. Warsaw, PL: Państwowe Wydawn. Naukowe. ISBN 8301033231.Muzeum Zamku i Szpitala Wojskowega na Ujazdowie. Zamek Ujazdowski.Retrieved October 24, 2008.Oakley, Stewart P. 1992. War and Peace in the Baltic, 1560-1790. London: Routledge. ISBN 0415024722.Sigismund III Vasa was King of Poland and Grand Duke of Lithuania from 1587 to 1632 and, as Sigismund, King of Sweden and Grand Duke of Finland from 1592 to 1599. He was the first Polish sovereign from the House of Vasa. Religiously zealous, he imposed Roman Catholicism across the vast realm, and his crusades against neighbouring states marked Poland's largest territorial expansion. As an ...
Sigismund III Vasa, King of Poland and Sweden, Grand Duke of Lithuania and Finland Personal coat of arms. Sigismund III Vasa was born when his parents, John III and Catherine Jagiellon, were held prisoner by John's brother King Eric XIV, but John replaced Eric in 1568. Sweden had become Protestant, but young Sigismund was raised Catholic.
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- King Gustav I of Sweden
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The early Vasa kings (1523–1611) Gustav I Vasa, portrait after J. Binck, 1542; in the University of Uppsala, Sweden. After Gustav I Vasa was elected to the throne in 1523, he began to restore the power of the Swedish king and to organize a central administration under his own direct leadership. On the one hand, this task was facilitated by ...
Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth. Kingdom of Sweden (1523–1611) The Polish–Swedish union was a short-lived personal union between the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth and the Kingdom of Sweden between 1592 and 1599. It began when Sigismund III Vasa, elected King of Poland and Grand Duke of Lithuania, was crowned King of Sweden following the ...
