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Sigismund

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(sĭj'ĭsmӘnd, sĭg'–), 1368–1437, Holy Roman emperor (1433–37), German king (1410–37), king of Hungary (1387–1437) and of Bohemia (1419–37), elector of Brandenburg (1376–1415), son of Holy Roman Emperor Charles IV . Through his marriage to Mary, who became queen of Hungary in 1382, Sigismund acceded to the Hungarian throne. However, dynastic conflicts there prevented his coronation until 1387. In the interim Mary was deposed, and Charles II ( Charles III , king of Naples) became king (1385). Following Charles's death (1386) Mary was restored, and Sigismund came to power. During this period the Ottomans (Turks) were advancing in Europe, and in 1395 they invaded Hungary. Sigismund led a general European crusade against them but was crushingly defeated in 1396 by Sultan Beyazid I at Nikopol. Sigismund's absence and the death of Mary (1395) had weakened his hold on the Hungarian throne. In 1403 he put down a revolt in Hungary in support of Lancelot of Naples, the son of Charles II. After the…
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(sĭj'ĭsmӘnd, sĭg'–), 1368–1437, Holy Roman emperor (1433–37), German king (1410–37), king of Hungary (1387–1437) and of Bohemia (1419–37), elector of Brandenburg (1376–1415), son of Holy Roman Emperor Charles IV . Through his marriage to Mary, who became queen of Hungary in 1382, Sigismund acceded…
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From Britannica Concise Encyclopedia
(born Feb. 15, 1368, probably Nürnberg—died Dec. 9, 1437, Znojmo, Bohemia) Holy Roman emperor (1433–37), king of Hungary (from 1387), German king (from 1411), king of Bohemia (from 1419), and Lombard king (from 1431). He became king of Hungary by marriage and pawned his German lands to raise funds…
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From Encyclopedia of Ancient Christianity
Saint; king of the Burgundians. After having converted from * Arianism to *Catholicism through the work of * Avitus of Vienne, around 496– 499, Sigismund succeeded his father, Gundabald, in 516. He made expiation for the sin of having his son Sigeric murdered (522) by doing penance in the monastery…
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1467–1548, king of Poland (1506–48), son of Casimir IV . Elected to succeed his brother, Alexander I, Sigismund faced the problem of consolidating his domestic power in order successfully to counter external threats to Poland. The enactment (1505) during Alexander's rule of the law Nihil Novi , …
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or Sigismund Augustus, 1520–72, king of Poland (1548–72). Crowned in 1530 to assure his succession, he assumed the royal functions at the death of his father, Sigismund I . By the Union of Lublin (1569) he transferred his hereditary grand duchy of Lithuania to the Polish crown, creating the unified…
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1566–1632, king of Poland (1587–1632) and Sweden (1592–99). The son of John III of Sweden and Catherine, sister of Sigismund II of Poland, he united the Vasa and Jagiello dynasties. He was a Roman Catholic; his marriage (1592) with Anne of Hapsburg linked him with the Catholic monarchs of Europe. A…
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From Chambers Biographical Dictionary
1368-1437 Holy Roman Emperor The younger son of Emperor Charles IV , he became King of Hungary (1387) as husband of Mary, daughter of Louis I, the Great, after defeating his Angevin rival Charles of Durazzo, King of Naples. He was also King of Bohemia (1419) and of Lombardy (1431). His dominions…
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From Britannica Concise Encyclopedia
(born Aug. 1, 1520, Kraków, Pol.—died July 7, 1572, Knyszyn) King of Poland (1548–72). Son of Sigismund I , he was crowned coruler with his father in 1530 and ruled the duchy of Lithuania from 1544. After becoming king of Poland (1548), he supported the Teutonic Order in Livonia against Russia…
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From Britannica Concise Encyclopedia
(born June 20, 1566, Gripsholm, Swed.—died April 30, 1632, Warsaw, Pol.) King of Poland (1587–1632) and of Sweden (1592–99). Son of King John III of Sweden (1537–1592) and Catherine, daughter of Sigismund I of Poland, he was elected king of Poland in 1587. On his father’s death (1592), he accepted…
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