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Cecilia Renata of Austria

1611 - 1644

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Cecilia Renata of Austria (German: Cäcilia Renata, Polish: Cecylia Renata, Lithuanian: Cecilija Renata; 16 July 1611 – 24 March 1644) was Queen of Poland and Grand Duchess of Lithuania as the wife of King-Grand Duke Władysław IV Vasa. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Cecilia Renata of Austria has received more than 116,636 page views. Her biography is available in 28 different languages on Wikipedia. Cecilia Renata of Austria is the 278th most popular companion (up from 279th in 2019), the 256th most popular biography from Austria (up from 269th in 2019) and the 15th most popular Austrian Companion.

Cecilia Renata of Austria was the daughter of Emperor Ferdinand I of the Holy Roman Empire and his first wife, Anna of Bohemia and Hungary. Her parents had married in 1521, but her mother died in 1524. When her father remarried to Anne of Foix-Candale, the daughter of Queen Eleanor of Navarre, she was neglected by her stepmother. Her father died in 1564, and her stepmother became regent for her brother, Maximilian II. Cecilia Renata was a great beauty and was sought after as a bride, but she had to marry the King of Poland, Sigismund II Augustus, who was more than twice her age. She had two children with him and died in 1602.

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Among companions, Cecilia Renata of Austria ranks 278 out of 784Before her are Constance of Castile, Marie of France, Countess of Champagne, Judith of Flanders, Alexandra of Yugoslavia, Jeanne d'Évreux, and Constantina. After her are Mary of Modena, Ildico, Licinia Eudoxia, Joan of England, Queen of Sicily, Duchess Anna of Prussia, and Milena Vukotić.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1611, Cecilia Renata of Austria ranks 9Before her are Chongzhen Emperor, Evliya Çelebi, Johannes Hevelius, Henri de La Tour d'Auvergne, Viscount of Turenne, Safi of Persia, and Marie Louise Gonzaga. After her are Karl Eusebius, Prince of Liechtenstein, Jan Fyt, Antonio de Pereda, Carlo Rainaldi, Magdalene of Nagasaki, and James Harrington. Among people deceased in 1644, Cecilia Renata of Austria ranks 5Before her are Pope Urban VIII, Chongzhen Emperor, Elisabeth of France, and Jan Baptist van Helmont. After her are Countess Louise Juliana of Nassau, Bernardo Strozzi, Alfonso III d'Este, Duke of Modena, Francisco Pacheco, Agostino Tassi, Guru Hargobind, and Georg Marcgrave.

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In Austria

Among people born in Austria, Cecilia Renata of Austria ranks 256 out of 1,424Before her are Archduchess Elisabeth Franziska of Austria (1892), Walter Nowotny (1920), August Kubizek (1888), Franz Xaver Gruber (1787), Anton Florian, Prince of Liechtenstein (1656), and Rudolf Kirchschläger (1915). After her are Johann Georg Albrechtsberger (1736), Archduchess Maria Anna of Austria (1610), William, Duke of Austria (1370), Otto, Duke of Austria (1301), Sigismund, Archduke of Austria (1427), and Friedrich Adler (1879).

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