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Barbara Zápolya ( Hungarian: Szapolyai Borbála, 1495–1515) was Queen of Poland and Grand Duchess of Lithuania as the first wife of King Sigismund I the Old from 1512 to 1515. Marriage to Barbara represented an alliance between Sigismund and the House of Zápolya against the Habsburgs in succession disputes over the throne to the Kingdom of ...
- 8 February 1512 – 2 October 1515
- 2 October 1515 (aged 19–20), Kraków
- 8 February 1512, Wawel Cathedral
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).
Barbara Zápolya was Queen of Poland and Grand Duchess of Lithuania as the first wife of King Sigismund I the Old from 1512 to 1515. Marriage to Barbara represented an alliance between Sigismund and the House of Zápolya against the Habsburgs in succession disputes over the throne to the Kingdom of Hungary. The alliance was short-lived as the renewed Muscovite–Lithuanian War forced Sigismund ...
The Szapolyai or Zápolya family was a noble family in the Kingdom of Hungary in the second half of the 15th century and in the early 16th century. A member of the family, John Szapolyai, was King of Hungary between 1526 and 1540, but he only ruled the central and eastern parts of the kingdom, because many Hungarian lords and prelates supported his opponent, Ferdinand of Habsburg.
- None, extinct
- John Sigismund Zápolya
- 14th century
Barbara Zápolya. From Wikimedia Commons, the free media repository. 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 ...
Early life. Hedwig was born on March 15, 1513, in Poznań. She was the eldest daughter of King Sigismund I the Old of Poland and his first wife, Hungarian Countess Barbara Zápolya, sister of the later King John I of Hungary. Her only full sibling, Anna, died at age 5.
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