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    Bona Sforza (2 February 1494 – 19 November 1557) was Queen of Poland and Grand Duchess of Lithuania as the second wife of Sigismund the Old, and Duchess...
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    daughter Bona (1494–1557), second wife of King Sigismund I of Poland daughter Ippolita Maria Sforza (1493–1501) illegitimate daughter Caterina Sforza married...
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    Bona of Savoy, Duchess of Milan (10 August 1449 – 23 November 1503) was Duchess of Milan as the second spouse of Galeazzo Maria Sforza, Duke of Milan....
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    noblewoman Barbara Zápolya from Hungary and then to Bona Sforza, the daughter of Gian Galeazzo Sforza, Duke of Milan. Their only son and the last Jagiellon...
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    Francesco Sforza (1491–1512) Ippolita Maria Sforza (1493–1501) Bona Sforza (1494–1557); married Sigismund I of Poland Bianca Maria Sforza (posthumously...
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    the Jagiellonian dynasty. Sigismund was the only son of Italian-born Bona Sforza and Sigismund the Old. From the beginning he was groomed and extensively...
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    title erroneously suggests that Poland was at the time ruled by Queen Bona Sforza, when in fact, on 30 July 1514, when Smolensk was lost to Russia, Poland...
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    Sigismund I the Old of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth and his wife, Bona Sforza of Milan. Catherine was given a thorough Renaissance education by Italian...
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    he married Bona of Savoy. Cruel and vengeful, he was "a man who did great follies and dishonest things not to write". Galeazzo Maria Sforza was born in...
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    splendor under the Sforzas, first with the dukes Ludovico and Beatrice d'Este, then with the duchesses Isabella of Aragon and Bona Sforza. Bari also underwent...
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    oldest child of Sigismund I the Old, King of Poland, and his Italian wife Bona Sforza. In 1539, she married John Zápolya, Voivode of Transylvania and King...
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    proposed as the means to end Polish support to Zápolya. The Polish Queen Bona Sforza opposed the wedding as she opposed the growing influence of the Habsburgs...
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    scandal; it was vehemently opposed by Polish nobles, including Queen mother Bona Sforza. Sigismund Augustus, assisted by Barbara's cousin Mikołaj "the Black"...
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  • was the second legitimate daughter of Galeazzo Maria Sforza, Duke of Milan, and his second wife, Bona of Savoy. Born in Milan, she was the second daughter...
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    Boryszewski. In 1518 Sigismund I married Bona Sforza d'Aragona, a young, strong-minded Italian princess. Bona's sway over the king and the magnates, her...
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    Sigismund I of Poland (1467–1548) and his second wife, the Italian princess Bona Sforza (1494–1557). She was the third of her parents' six children and raised...
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    Galeazzo Maria Sforza of Milan by his second wife, Bona of Savoy. Bianca was born in Pavia as the eldest daughter of Duke Galeazzo Maria Sforza of Milan, by...
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    Bona, believing the duchy was in fact in the hands of the ducal councilor Cicco Simonetta. The attempt failed and Ludovico was exiled to Pisa, Sforza...
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    finance the army.[citation needed] Supported by his Italian consort, Bona Sforza, he began buying up land and started several agricultural reforms to...
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    (1893). Caterina Sforza. pp. 57–59. Maximilian I had married in 1494 to Bianca Maria Sforza, daughter of Galeazzo Maria Sforza and Bona of Savoy, thus she...
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  • sums (Polish: Sumy neapolitańskie) refers to a loan made in 1557 by Bona Sforza, dowager Queen of Poland and Grand Duchess of Lithuania, to Philip II...
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    passed as a dowry to her daughter Bona Sforza, wife-to-be of Sigismund I of Poland, King of Poland. During Bona Sforza's government, Ostuni continued to...
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    1587. Daughter of Polish King Sigismund I the Old and Italian duchess Bona Sforza, Anna received multiple proposals, but remained unmarried until the age...
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    Biscione (category House of Sforza)
    Galeazzo Maria Sforza, as inside the Sforza Castle Bona Sforza's seal, bearing similarities to the other Sforza symbols Coat of arms of the Sforza and Caravaggio...
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    The Sforza Hours (British Library, London, Add. MS 34294), is a richly illuminated book of hours initiated by Bona Sforza, widow of Galeazzo Sforza, Duke...
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    vegetables or greens. The word literally means "Italian stuff" because Queen Bona Sforza, who was Italian and married Polish King Sigismund I the Old in 1518...
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    century was Filippo Buonaccorsi. Many Italian artists came to Poland with Bona Sforza of Milan, when she married King Sigismund I in 1518. This was supported...
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    Ferdinand of Aragon, was donated to the Sforza family and passed to Bona Sforza, Queen of Poland. After Bona's death, it was returned under the King of...
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  • saint Bona of Savoy (1449–1503), duchess of Savoy Princess Bona Margherita of Savoy-Genoa (1896–1971), Princess Konrad of Bavaria Bona Sforza (1493–1557)...
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    hańba and brama. In 1518, the Polish king Sigismund I the Old married Bona Sforza, the niece of the Holy Roman emperor Maximilian, who introduced Italian...
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