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Catherine Jagiellon was born in Kraków as the youngest daughter of King Sigismund I the Old of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth and his wife, Bona Sforza of Milan. Catherine was given a thorough Renaissance education by Italian tutors: she was taught to read, write and speak Latin, German and Italian, instructed in conversation, riding ...
country of residence of Catherine Jagiellon, the youngest daughter of the Polish King Sigismund the Old (1467–1548) and the Italian princess Bona Sforza (1494–1557), after she married Duke John III Vasa (Swedish: Johan III;
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Catherine Jagiellon (d. 1583), the youngest daughter of Sigismund I ‘the Old’ of Poland and Bona Sforza (d. 1557), marries Duke John Vasa of Finland (d. 1592), the future King John III of Sweden, at a ceremony in Vilnius (4 October)
Ladislaus II Jagiellon (1456–1516), King of Bohemia and Hungary. Vladislaus was born on 1 March 1456, the oldest son of King Casimir IV of Poland and Grand Duke of Lithuania, then the head of the ruling Jagiellon dynasty of Poland, and Elizabeth of Austria, daughter of Albert, King of Germany, Hungary and Bohemia.
Portrait of Catherine Jagiellon (1526-1583), daughter of King Sigismund I and Bona Sforza; through her marriage to John III of Sweden she became Duchess of Finland (1562-83), Queen of Sweden (1569-83) and Grand Princess of Finland (1581-83). Attribution. Lucas Cranach the Younger.
Katarina Jagellonica (Catherine Jagiellon) was a Polish-Lithuanian princess who married the Swedish king Johan III. She is sometimes viewed as the only true Renaissance queen of Sweden. Her political contacts, cultural interests, and her religious convictions all played an important role in Swedish history, with regard to both domestic and ...
Sigismund was the son of King John III of Sweden and his first wife, Catherine Jagiellon, daughter of King Sigismund I of Poland. Elected monarch of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth in 1587, he sought to unify Poland and Sweden under one Catholic kingdom, and when he succeeded his deceased father in 1592 the Polish–Swedish union was created.
