Sigismund Casimir Vasa (Polish: Zygmunt Kazimierz Waza; 1 April 1640 – 9 August 1647), was a Polish prince and the only legitimate son of King Wladislaus...
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Lithuania from 1506 until his death in 1548. Sigismund I was a member of the Jagiellonian dynasty, the son of Casimir IV and younger brother of Kings John I...
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Jagiellons were polyglots and per historical evidence Casimir IV Jagiellon and his son Saint Casimir possibly were the last Jagiellons who spoke in their...
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granddaughter of King Casimir III of Poland and the great-granddaughter of Gediminas, a Grand Duke of Lithuania. He was named after Saint Sigismund of Burgundy...
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1648 to 1660. He was the first son of Sigismund III Vasa with his second wife Constance of Austria. John Casimir succeeded his older half-brother, Władysław...
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Casimir IV (Casimir Andrew Jagiellon; Polish: Kazimierz Andrzej Jagiellończyk [kaˈʑimjɛʂ jaɡʲɛ(l)ˈlɔj̃t͡ʂɨk] ; Lithuanian: Kazimieras Jogailaitis; 30...
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provoke the Ottomans to attack. On 9 August 1647, his young son, Sigismund Casimir, then seven years old, suddenly fell ill and died; the death of his...
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initiated by his brother King Sigismund I the Old in 1514 and the tradition holds that he was canonized in 1521. Veneration of Casimir saw a resurgence in the...
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Sigismund III Vasa (20 June 1566 – 30 April 1632 N.S.) was King of Poland and Grand Duke of Lithuania from 1587 to 1632 and, as Sigismund, King of Sweden...
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John Sigismund Vasa (6 January 1652, Warsaw - 20 February 1652, Warsaw) was a Polish prince, the son of John II Casimir and Marie Louise Gonzaga. His parents...
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Milan. His paternal grandparents were Casimir IV Jagiellon, King of Poland, and Elizabeth of Austria. Sigismund's maternal grandparents, Gian Galeazzo...
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buried in the chapel were Casimir's brother Alexander Jagiellon and two wives of Casimir's nephew Sigismund II Augustus. As Casimir's cult grew and he was...
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Poland, Cecilia Renata of Austria, and was appointed governess to Sigismund Casimir. Between the death of Cecilia and the next marriage of the king, she...
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under her influence married young: Casimir (died at age 26) and John Albert (died at age 41) never married, while Sigismund married at 47. Only Alexander,...
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sister, Mary, in September 1379. She was betrothed to Sigismund of Luxemburg, a great-grandson of Casimir the Great, who had been Louis's predecessor on the...
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costumes, including those of peasants. Prince Sigismund Casimir Vasa in a green żupan, c. 1644 King John II Casimir in a crimson żupan and delia, c. 1649 King...
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House of Vasa (section Opposition to Sigismund)
the Vasa dynasty, Johan III's son Sigismund, and Sigismund's two sons Vladislav IV of Poland and Johan II Casimir. Arms of the Vasa Swedish Royal Arms...
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Detail of a portrait of Sigismund Casimir Vasa (c. 1644), with characteristic blond hair which darkened with time as confirmed by his later effigies....
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convinced King Sigismund to outlaw Otto II and Casimir V. He also called the imperial immediacy of Pomerania in question. In 1417, Sigismund enfeoffed Otto...
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personal union between Poland and Lithuania. During the reign of Casimir IV Jagiellon and Sigismund I the Old, culture flourished and cities developed. This era...
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History of Poland during the Jagiellonian dynasty (section Moscow's threat to Lithuania; accession of Sigismund I)
1410, but there was also the milestone Peace of Thorn of 1466 under King Casimir IV Jagiellon; the treaty defined the basis of the future Duchy of Prussia...
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the country. During her marriage, she became pregnant three times: Sigismund Casimir (1 April 1640 – 9 August 1647) Maria Anna Isabella (8 January 1642...
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was Queen of Poland as the second wife of King Sigismund III Vasa and the mother of King John II Casimir. Constance was a daughter of Charles II of Austria...
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Braganza and Prince of Brazil 1634–1653 John IV of Portugal Tuberculosis Sigismund Casimir 1640–1647 Władysław IV Vasa Dysentery Tsarevich Dmitry Alexeyevich...
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John Sigismund Zápolya or Szapolyai (Hungarian: Szapolyai János Zsigmond; 7 July 1540 – 14 March 1571) was King of Hungary as John II from 1540 to 1551...
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Wawel Castle (section Sigismund's Chapel)
the Vistula River in Kraków, it was established on the orders of King Casimir III the Great and enlarged over the centuries into a number of structures...
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Crown Prince Sigismund Casimir Vasa and his brother Władysław Konstanty, c. 1647...
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the fourth Polish sovereign from the Jagiellonian dynasty and the son of Casimir IV and Elizabeth of Austria. Related to the House of Habsburg, John Albert...
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agreed that Prussia should submit to Poland and become Protestant. King Sigismund I the Old of Poland (Albert's uncle) accepted this, because it was better...
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to with the Bohemian King Sigismund of Luxembourg, and even spend some time in his court (there are information that Casimir I, for unknown reasons, received...
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