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Catherine Jagiellon

1526 - 1583

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Catherine Jagiellon (Polish: Katarzyna Jagiellonka; Swedish: Katarina Jagellonica, Lithuanian: Kotryna Jogailaitė; 1 November 1526 – 16 September 1583) was a princess of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth and Queen of Sweden from 1569 as the wife of King John III. Catherine had significant influence over state affairs during the reign of her spouse. She negotiated with the pope to introduce Counter-Reformation in Sweden. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Catherine Jagiellon has received more than 159,914 page views. Her biography is available in 36 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 33 in 2019). Catherine Jagiellon is the 1,352nd most popular politician (up from 1,709th in 2019), the 81st most popular biography from Poland (up from 96th in 2019) and the 21st most popular Polish Politician.

Catherine Jagiellon was the daughter of King John III of Poland and the sister of the Polish King Sigismund II Augustus. She married Sigismund Augustus, the son of King John III of Poland and Queen Barbara Radziwill. Catherine Jagiellon was most famous for being the mother of the future Polish King, Sigismund III Vasa.

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Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Catherine Jagiellon ranks 1,352 out of 19,576. Before her are Stefan Nemanja, Seljuk, Necho II, Randal Cremer, Antoine of Navarre, and Giulio Andreotti. After her are Seonjo of Joseon, Emperor Wu of Jin, Christine Lagarde, Ptolemy IX Lathyros, Joseph I of Portugal, and Makarios III.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1526, Catherine Jagiellon ranks 2. Before her is Giuseppe Arcimboldo. After her are Akechi Mitsuhide, Elizabeth of Austria, Augustus, Elector of Saxony, Adolf, Duke of Holstein-Gottorp, Rafael Bombelli, Taqi ad-Din Muhammad ibn Ma'ruf, Bâkî, Benedict the Moor, Wolfgang, Count Palatine of Zweibrücken, and Álvaro de Bazán, 1st Marquess of Santa Cruz. Among people deceased in 1583, Catherine Jagiellon ranks 2. Before her is Nurbanu Sultan. After her are Fernão Mendes Pinto, Magnus, Duke of Holstein, Oichi, Louis VI, Elector Palatine, Shibata Katsuie, Ivan Fyodorov, Surdas, Oda Nobutaka, Pirro Ligorio, and Andrey Kurbsky.

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In Poland

Among people born in Poland, Catherine Jagiellon ranks 81 out of 1,694. Before her are Ladislaus I of Hungary (1046), Werner von Blomberg (1878), Tamara de Lempicka (1898), Casimir IV Jagiellon (1427), Dietrich Bonhoeffer (1906), and Kurt Alder (1902). After her are Michael Andreas Barclay de Tolly (1761), Andrzej Sapkowski (1948), Carl Menger (1840), Robert Luther (1822), Friedrich Bergius (1884), and Norbert Elias (1897).

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Among POLITICIANS In Poland

Among politicians born in Poland, Catherine Jagiellon ranks 21. Before her are John II Casimir Vasa (1609), Władysław III of Poland (1424), Marie Walewska (1786), Anna Jagiellon (1523), Ladislaus I of Hungary (1046), and Casimir IV Jagiellon (1427). After her are Egon Krenz (1937), Horst Köhler (1943), Augusta Victoria of Schleswig-Holstein (1858), Mieszko I of Poland (940), Alexander Jagiellon (1461), and Jarosław Kaczyński (1949).

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