Isabella Jagiellon
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Isabella Jagiellon was a princess of the Kingdom of Poland and of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania, and later also the Queen consort of Hungary. She was the oldest child of Sigismund I the Old, King of Po
Portrait by Lucas Cranach the Younger, 1553
19th-century depiction of Isabella by Miklós Barabás
Portrait of John Zápolya
Suleiman receives Isabella and her infant son John Sigismund in 1541
Bona Sforza
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Bona Sforza was Queen of Poland and Grand Duchess of Lithuania as the second wife of Sigismund I the Old, and Duchess of Bari and Rossano in her own right. She was a surviving member of the powerful H
Isabella Jagiellon
…also the Queen consort of Hungary. She was the oldest child of Sigismund I the Old, King of Poland and Grand Duke of Lithuania, and his Italian wife Bona Sforza. In 1539, she married John Zápolya, Voivode of Transylvania and King of Hungary. At the time Hungary was contested between Ferdinand of Austria who…
Cameo with bust of Bona Sforza, c. 1540
The Palace of the Grand Dukes (marked as number 6) in Vilnius Lower Castle in the late 16th century.
Poisoning of Queen Bona, painted in the 19th century by Jan Matejko
Tomb monument of Bona Sforza in the Basilica di San Nicola, Bari