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Anna Jagiellon

1523 - 1596

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Anna Jagiellon (Polish: Anna Jagiellonka, Lithuanian: Ona Jogailaitė; 18 October 1523 – 9 September 1596) was Queen of Poland and Grand Duchess of Lithuania from 1575 to 1587. Daughter of Polish King and Lithuanian Grand Duke Sigismund I the Old and Italian duchess Bona Sforza, Anna received multiple proposals, but remained unmarried until the age of 52. After the death of King Sigismund II Augustus, her brother and the last male member of the Jagiellonian dynasty, her hand was sought by pretenders to the Polish-Lithuanian throne to maintain the dynastic tradition. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Anna Jagiellon has received more than 547,541 page views. Her biography is available in 44 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 43 in 2019). Anna Jagiellon is the 1,155th most popular politician (up from 1,326th in 2019), the 73rd most popular biography from Poland (up from 79th in 2019) and the 18th most popular Polish Politician.

Anna Jagiellon was the wife of King Sigismund II Augustus of Poland. She was also the mother of King Sigismund III Vasa of Poland. Anna Jagiellon is most famous for being the mother of King Sigismund III Vasa of Poland.

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Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Anna Jagiellon ranks 1,155 out of 19,576. Before her are Emperor Xuanzong of Tang, Getúlio Vargas, Möngke Khan, Xianfeng Emperor, Tvrtko I of Bosnia, and Muawiya II. After her are Anna of Austria, Queen of Spain, Mohamed Morsi, Vasili IV of Russia, Henry the Lion, Vasili III of Russia, and Christian III of Denmark.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1523, Anna Jagiellon ranks 2. Before her is Catherine Howard. After her are Gabriele Falloppio, Margaret of France, Duchess of Berry, Blaise de Vigenère, Charles de Bourbon, Marco Antonio Bragadin, Stradanus, Gaspara Stampa, Gulbadan Begum, Catherine Carey, and Pieter Pourbus. Among people deceased in 1596, Anna Jagiellon ranks 3. Before her are Francis Drake, and Jean Bodin. After her are Koca Sinan Pasha, Blaise de Vigenère, George I, Landgrave of Hesse-Darmstadt, Pellegrino Tibaldi, Hamnet Shakespeare, Giaches de Wert, Pierre Pithou, and George Peele.

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In Poland

Among people born in Poland, Anna Jagiellon ranks 73 out of 1,694. Before her are John II Casimir Vasa (1609), Władysław III of Poland (1424), Erich von Falkenhayn (1861), Walther Nernst (1864), Gustav Fechner (1801), and Marie Walewska (1786). After her are Jakob Böhme (1575), Ladislaus I of Hungary (1046), Werner von Blomberg (1878), Tamara de Lempicka (1898), Casimir IV Jagiellon (1427), and Dietrich Bonhoeffer (1906).

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Among POLITICIANS In Poland

Among politicians born in Poland, Anna Jagiellon ranks 18. Before her are Sigismund I the Old (1467), Bolesław I the Brave (967), Zbigniew Brzezinski (1928), John II Casimir Vasa (1609), Władysław III of Poland (1424), and Marie Walewska (1786). After her are Ladislaus I of Hungary (1046), Casimir IV Jagiellon (1427), Catherine Jagiellon (1526), Egon Krenz (1937), Horst Köhler (1943), and Augusta Victoria of Schleswig-Holstein (1858).

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