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    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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    Casimir IV (Casimir Andrew Jagiellon; Polish: Kazimierz Andrzej Jagiellończyk [kaˈʑimjɛʂ jaɡʲɛ(l)ˈlɔj̃t͡ʂɨk] ; Lithuanian: Kazimieras Jogailaitis; 30...
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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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    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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    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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  • 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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    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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    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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  • 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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    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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    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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    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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    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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    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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    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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    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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    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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    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 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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  • 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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    Crown Prince Sigismund Casimir Vasa and his brother Władysław Konstanty, c. 1647...
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    Lithuania as the second wife of King-Grand Duke Sigismund III Vasa and the mother of King John II Casimir. Constance was a daughter of Charles II of Austria...
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    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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  • political importance reached his apogee in 1512, when King Sigismund I the Old married with Casimir II's niece Barbara Zápolya (daughter of his cousin Hedwig)...
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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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    had no children, while in 1432 he had two sons (Władysław III and Casimir IV). Sigismund also made territorial concessions to Poland, which received contested...
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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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