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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. Along with her then-fiancé Stephen Báthory, Anna was elected as co-ruler in the 1576 royal election of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth. Read more on Wikipedia

Her biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Anna Jagiellon is the 1,753rd most popular politician (down from 1,155th in 2019), the 89th most popular biography from Poland (down from 73rd in 2019) and the 20th 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 1,753 out of 19,576Before her are Constantius III, Arif Alvi, Arghun, Halford Mackinder, Conradin, and Alcide De Gasperi. After her are Inge I of Norway, Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahyan, Hiero II of Syracuse, An Lushan, Giorgia Meloni, and Isaac I Komnenos.

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

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In Poland

Among people born in Poland, Anna Jagiellon ranks 89 out of 1,694Before her are Horst Köhler (1943), Jan Matejko (1838), Krzysztof Penderecki (1933), Duchess Elisabeth of Württemberg (1767), Johannes Hevelius (1611), and Stefan Banach (1892). After her are Tamara de Lempicka (1898), Carl Menger (1840), Ferdinand von Richthofen (1833), Alfred Döblin (1878), Anton Denikin (1872), and Michael Andreas Barclay de Tolly (1761).

Among POLITICIANS In Poland

Among politicians born in Poland, Anna Jagiellon ranks 20Before her are John II Casimir Vasa (1609), Yitzhak Shamir (1915), Ladislaus I of Hungary (1046), Friedrich Wilhelm, Duke of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Glücksburg (1785), Horst Köhler (1943), and Duchess Elisabeth of Württemberg (1767). After her are Augusta Victoria of Schleswig-Holstein (1858), Bolesław I the Brave (967), Egon Krenz (1937), Catherine Jagiellon (1526), Marie Walewska (1786), and Karl Hanke (1903).