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Sigismund I the Old

1467 - 1548

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Sigismund I the Old (Polish: Zygmunt I Stary, Lithuanian: Žygimantas I Senasis; 1 January 1467 – 1 April 1548) was King of Poland and Grand Duke of Lithuania from 1506 until his death in 1548. Sigismund I was a member of the Jagiellonian dynasty, the son of Casimir IV and younger brother of Kings John I Albert and Alexander I Jagiellon. He was nicknamed "the Old" in later historiography to distinguish him from his son and successor, Sigismund II Augustus. Before ascending to the Polish and Lithuanian thrones, he was Duke of Głogów from 1499, Duke of Opava from 1501, and governor of Silesia from 1504 on behalf of his brother, King Vladislaus II of Bohemia and Hungary. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Sigismund I the Old is the 1,189th most popular politician (down from 943rd in 2019), the 59th most popular biography from Poland (down from 57th in 2019) and the 11th most popular Polish Politician.

Sigismund I the Old was king of Poland and the last of the Jagiellons. He was king of Hungary and Bohemia from 1506 to 1548.

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Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Sigismund I the Old ranks 1,189 out of 19,576. Before him are Charles I of Hungary, Berke, William Howard Taft, Prince Richard, Duke of Gloucester, Marcian, and Chandragupta I. After him are Cao Pi, Tokhtamysh, Sukjong of Joseon, Henry FitzRoy, 1st Duke of Richmond and Somerset, Warren G. Harding, and Hyder Ali.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1467, Sigismund I the Old ranks 2. Before him is Pedro Álvares Cabral. After him are Francis Phoebus of Navarre, Ferdinand II of Naples, Guillaume Budé, Giovanni Antonio Boltraffio, Giovanni il Popolano, Hadım Suleiman Pasha, Şehzade Korkut, Andrea Sansovino, Charles II, Duke of Guelders, and Ramón de Cardona. Among people deceased in 1548, Sigismund I the Old ranks 2. Before him is Catherine Parr. After him are Juan Diego, Gonzalo Pizarro, Juan de Zumárraga, Girolamo Savoldo, Pascual de Andagoya, João de Castro, and Philip, Duke of Palatinate-Neuburg.

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In Poland

Among people born in Poland, Sigismund I the Old ranks 59 out of 1,694. Before him are Emanuel Lasker (1868), Wolfram Freiherr von Richthofen (1895), Donald Tusk (1957), Billy Wilder (1906), Ernst Cassirer (1874), and Jakob Böhme (1575). After him are Krzysztof Kieślowski (1941), Maximilian Kolbe (1894), Władysław III of Poland (1424), Ferdinand Lassalle (1825), Irena Sendler (1910), and Konstantin Rokossovsky (1896).

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Among POLITICIANS In Poland

Among politicians born in Poland, Sigismund I the Old ranks 11. Before him are Władysław IV Vasa (1595), Sigismund II Augustus (1520), Wojciech Jaruzelski (1923), Vladislaus II of Hungary (1456), Casimir III the Great (1310), and Donald Tusk (1957). After him are Władysław III of Poland (1424), Zbigniew Brzezinski (1928), John II Casimir Vasa (1609), Yitzhak Shamir (1915), Ladislaus I of Hungary (1046), and Friedrich Wilhelm, Duke of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Glücksburg (1785).

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