Sigismund II Augustus
King of Poland and Grand Duke of Lithuania
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The last male Jagiellonian and the architect of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth. His reign is remembered as the apex of Poland's Golden Age — and for the scandalous marriage to Barbara Radziwiłł that defied his mother and enraged the court.
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Sigismund II Augustus was the only son of Sigismund I the Old and Bona Sforza to survive infancy, groomed from birth to inherit. Crowned co-ruler in 1529 while his father still lived, he succeeded fully in 1548. His first wife, Elizabeth of Austria, died at eighteen in 1545. He then married his mistress Barbara Radziwiłł over his mother's fury and the nobility's opposition — she died five months after coronation. A third marriage to Catherine of Austria also produced no surviving heirs. He maintained peace with neighbors save for the Northern Seven Years' War over Baltic trade, built Poland's…
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