Article: Sigismund II Augustus (Poland, Lithuania) (15201572; ruled 15301572)

SIGISMUND II AUGUSTUS (POLAND, LITHUANIA) (1520 1572; ruled 1530 1572)

SIGISMUND II AUGUSTUS (POLAND, LITHUANIA) (1520 1572; ruled 1530 1572), last of the Jagiellon kings of Poland and grand duke of Lithuania (from 1529). Under pressure from his parents, King Sigismund I the Old and Bona Sforza, Sigismund was made grand duke of Lithuania and elected king of Poland (coronation on 20 February 1530) in his father's lifetime, which was contrary to the law then in force. In 1543 he was married to Elizabeth of Habsburg (daughter of the emperor Ferdinand I), who suffered from epilepsy and died childless in 1545. In 1543 1548 he stayed in the Grand Duchy of ...

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