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Barbara Zápolya (Hungarian: ... The wedding and coronation ceremony took place on 8 February. Her dowry was 100,000 red złoty, which was a very large sum.
- 8 February 1512 – 2 October 1515
- 2 October 1515 (aged 19–20), Kraków
- 8 February 1512, Wawel Cathedral
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 ...
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Barbara Zapolya (fl. 1500)Queen of Poland. Name variations: Barbara Zápolya of Hungary; Szapolyai. 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).
Wedding of Sigismund I and Barbara Zápolya in 15121 The wedding of Sigismund I and Bona Sforza in 1518 is a significant symbolic date in Polish collective memory, even if scholars agree that Sigismund I—since 1506 King of Poland, Grand Duke of Lithuania etc.—had already become acquainted with Renaissance art and ideas earlier, at
Barbara was the mother of Hedwig, Electress of Bradenburg, but died soon after the birth of her second daughter Anna. Marriage plans. She was the daughter of Stephen Zápolya, Palatine of Hungary and Count of Szepes, and the Polish princess Hedwig of Cieszyn of the Piast dynasty. Barbara was a younger sister of John Zápolya, the future King of ...
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 ...
Vladislaus's brother, Polish king Sigismund I the Old, married John's younger sister, Barbara Zápolya in early 1512. This increased the influence of the Zápolyas, but only in the short term, as Barbara died in 1515. To show off his wealth, John went with Barbara to Poland accompanied by 800 horsemen who wore gilded clothes.
