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Isabella Jagiellon (Hungarian: Izabella királyné; Polish: Izabela Jagiellonka; 18 January 1519 – 15 September 1559) was the queen consort of Hungary. She was the oldest child of Sigismund I the Old, King of Poland, and his Italian wife Bona Sforza. In 1539, she married John Zápolya, Voivode of Transylvania and King of Hungary.
The Jagiellonian dynasty was not entitled to automatic hereditary succession, as each new king had to be approved by nobility consensus. Władysław Jagiełło had two sons late in life from his last wife, Sophia of Halshany.
Jul 19, 1998 · On the evening of Feb. 20, 1998, less than a week after the much-heralded publication of her first novel in more than 20 years, Gayl Jones, 48, was handcuffed and removed from her Lexington,...
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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, dancing, ...
On 4 October 1562, Catherine was married in the Lower Castle of Vilnius, Lithuania, to Duke John of Finland, the second son of Gustav I and half-brother of the then-reigning King Eric XIV. John had not received his brother's permission for the marriage and there were already tensions between them since John pursued an independent foreign policy. Th...
Catherine was crowned queen of Sweden in the spring of 1569. Her relationship with John III continued to be very good during her lifetime, and there are no extramarital partners known on either side. Her ladies-in-waiting were supervised by Karin Gyllenstierna and her household by chamberlain Pontus De la Gardie, with whom she reportedly had a very...
The infusion of Polish - Lithuanian Commonwealth blood into the Swedish royal lineage that began with Catherine would cause considerable strife after her death in the context of the ongoing European wars of religion. Her son Sigismund inherited the thrones of both the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth (in 1587) and Sweden (in 1592) but ruled the latte...
Eriksson, Bo (2007). Lützen 1632. Norstedts Pocket, Stockholm. ISBN 978-91-7263-790-0. In SwedishOhlmarks, Åke (1979). Alla Sveriges drottningar. In SwedishSignum svenska kulturhistoria: Renässansen(The Renaissance) (2005)Tiitta, Allan & Zetterberg, Seppo (eds, 1992). Suomi kautta aikojenNov 27, 2017 · A wife and mother writes about how she is trying to navigate life after her husband died by suicide.
Jun 23, 2024 · That was the day I learned that my husband Stanton, whom I’d left just four months earlier, had died by suicide. This is the story of how his death shaped my life. [Jawaher Al-Naimi/Al Jazeera]
Aug 20, 1987 · Breaking her public silence on her husband’s death, Rivers haltingly tried to explain what she herself doesn’t yet fully understand. “He had gotten very depressed. And since the heart attack...
