Anna the Jagiellonian

This article is about the queen of Poland. For queen of Czech and Hungary, see Anna the Jagiellonian (Czech-Hungarian).

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Anna Jagellonica (Polish:Anna Jagiellonka) 1523 - 1596, daughter of Sigismund I of Poland, wife of Stephen Bathory, King of Poland, one of the last members of the Jagiellon dynasty.

Related Topics:
1523 - 1596 - Sigismund I of Poland - Stephen Bathory, King of Poland - Jagiellon

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She was a heir to the Kingdom of Jerusalem.

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Anna (1523-1596), was a spinster when her brother king Sigismund August of Poland died. 1576 she married Stephen Bathory (1533-1586), then Reigning Prince of Transilvania, who was 1576 elected King of Poland and Grand Duke of Lithuania. She died childless.

Related Topics:
Sigismund August of Poland - Transilvania

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Her heir was her youngest sister's (Catherine of Poland, Queen of Sweden) only son, Sigismund Vasa.

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She helped Sigismund III of Poland gain the throne of Poland after her husband's death. She died as Dowager Queen of Poland during her nephew's reign, in her own country where she was born and lived.

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