For other people named Anna Jagiellon, see Anna Jagiellon (disambiguation).
Anna Jagiellon
Queen Anna in her coronation robes (1576 painting by Martin Kober)
Queen of Poland Grand Duchess of Lithuania
Reign
15 December 1575 – 19 August 1587
Coronation
1 May 1576 in Kraków
Predecessor
Henry of Valois
Successor
Sigismund III Vasa
Co-monarch
Stephen Báthory (1576–1586)
Born
18 October 1523 Kraków, Kingdom of Poland
Died
9 September 1596(1596-09-09) (aged 72) Warsaw, Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth
Burial
Wawel Cathedral
Spouse
Stephen Báthory
(m. 1576; died 1586)
Dynasty
Jagiellon
Father
Sigismund I the Old
Mother
Bona Sforza
Religion
Roman Catholicism
Signature
Anna Jagiellon (Polish: Anna Jagiellonka, Lithuanian: Ona Jogailaitė; 18 October 1523 – 9 September 1596) was Queen of Poland and Grand Duchess of Lithuania from 1575 to 1587.
Daughter of Polish King Sigismund I the Old and Italian duchess Bona Sforza, Anna received multiple proposals, but remained unmarried until the age of 52. After the death of King Sigismund II Augustus, her brother and the last male member of the Jagiellonian dynasty, her hand was sought by pretenders to the Polish throne to maintain the dynastic tradition. Along with her then-fiancé Stephen Báthory, Anna was elected as co-ruler in the 1576 royal election of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth. Their marriage was a formal arrangement and distant.
While Báthory was preoccupied with the Livonian War, Anna spent her time on local administrative matters and several construction projects, including the city wall Stara Prochownia to protect Sigismund Augustus Bridge. After her husband's death in December 1586, Anna had the opportunity to remain on the throne as the sole ruler, but instead promoted her nephew Sigismund III Vasa, whose reign established the House of Vasa on the Polish throne for the next eighty years (1587–1668).
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brother. Her paternal grandparents were King Casimir IV of Poland (of the Jagiellon dynasty) and Elisabeth of Austria, one of the heiresses of the Kingdom...
otherwise the Jagiellon dynasty (Polish: dynastia Jagiellonów), the House of Jagiellon (Polish: Dom Jagiellonów), or simply the Jagiellons (Lithuanian:...
Catherine Jagiellon (Polish: Katarzyna Jagiellonka; Swedish: Katarina Jagellonica, Lithuanian: Kotryna Jogailaitė; 1 November 1526 – 16 September 1583)...
Catherine Jagiellon, she was close to her brother Sigismund Vasa, King of Poland (1587–1632) and King of Sweden (1592–99). Raised a Catholic, Anna converted...
Casimir IV (Casimir Andrew Jagiellon; Polish: Kazimierz Andrzej Jagiellończyk [kaˈʑimjɛʂ jaɡʲɛ(l)ˈlɔj̃t͡ʂɨk] ; Lithuanian: Kazimieras Jogailaitis; 30...
dynasties—the House of Mindaugas, the House of Gediminas, and the House of Jagiellon. Despite this, the one and only crowned king of Lithuania was King Mindaugas...
personal union between Poland and Lithuania. During the reign of Casimir IV Jagiellon and Sigismund I the Old, culture flourished and cities developed. This...
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Bogislaw X, Duke of Pomerania and the Polish princess AnnaJagiellon. After the death of his first spouse Anna of Brandenburg in 1514, she married the future...
monarchs - King Stephen Báthory, Rudolf II, Holy Roman Emperor, Queen AnnaJagiellon and King Sigismund III Vasa, active mainly in the Polish–Lithuanian...
to Sigismund Augustus in Knyszyn and eventually passed to his sister AnnaJagiellon. After the king's death the opposition led by the primate, made the...
for both parts of the state, and their numbering was kept separate. The Jagiellon dynasty was a direct continuation of the Gediminids. The Polish–Lithuanian...
Crown on May 12, 1575, two months after he was crowned King of France. AnnaJagiellon was elected after him. The Constitution of May 3, 1791 is the second-oldest...
its founder and those of his children, King Sigismund II Augustus and AnnaJagiellon (Jagiellonka). The Wawel Cathedral has been the main burial site for...
Leszczyński Gold enameled pendant with "A" monogram and a gold chain of AnnaJagiellon Gold filigree chain of Queen Ludwika Maria Gonzaga, etc. The casket...
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