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May 14, 2024 · It shows the princely couple, probably on their wedding day, as suggested by the inscription on the pedestal. Bogusław X was considered to be a wise ruler, which earned him the nickname the Great. However, he was already 37 years old widower before meeting his second love. Anna Jagiellon, marrying him, was in turn at a very young age (she was 15).
3 days ago · She died from a puerperal fever at childbirth along with the baby boy on 10 February 1598 in Warsaw. [203] [204] Following her death, Sigismund was in deep mourning; he expressed sorrow in private letters to his mother-in-law Maria Anna of Bavaria , [203] and isolated himself from subjects. [205]
May 5, 2024 · Familypedia - Wladyslaw II Jagiellon (c1362-1434) and List of rulers of Lithuania. Jogaila on Wikipedia in English. Jogaila. From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Jogaila, later Władysław II Jagiełło (born ca. 1348; died 1 June 1434), was Grand Duke of Lithuania and King of Poland. He ruled in Lithuania from 1377, at first with his uncle ...
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. The elder son of King John III Vasa of ...
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May 18, 2024 · Bona Sforza (2 February 1494 or 2 February 1493 – 19 November 1557) was a member of the powerful Milanese House of Sforza. In 1518, she became the second wife of Sigismund I the Old, the King of Poland and Grand Duke of Lithuania, and became the Queen of Poland and Grand Duchess of Lithuania. She was the third child of Gian Galeazzo Sforza ...
May 16, 2024 · Mama June Shannon is mourning her daughter, Anna "Chickadee" Cardwell. In a first look at the Mama June: Family Crisis midseason teaser, a grief-stricken Mama June mourns the loss of her oldest ...
May 6, 2024 · Anne Frank (born June 12, 1929, Frankfurt am Main, Germany—died February/March 1945, Bergen-Belsen concentration camp, near Hannover) was a Jewish girl whose diary of her family’s two years in hiding during the German occupation of the Netherlands became a classic of war literature. Early in the Nazi regime of Adolf Hitler, Anne’s father ...
