Sigismund III Vasa
King of Poland, Grand Duke of Lithuania and king of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth from 1587 until 1632 and King of Sweden from 1592 until 1599 (1566-1632) · Sweden · Historical Figures · Died at 65
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Something wrong?He held three crowns - Poland, Lithuania, Sweden - but lost one in a religious war with his own uncle, then turned his armies east and briefly put a Polish garrison inside the Kremlin. The king who moved Poland's capital to Warsaw and stretched its borders farther than they'd ever reach again.
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Born 20 June 1566, son of Sweden's King John III and a Polish princess, Sigismund inherited a dynastic tangle. Elected to the Polish-Lithuanian throne in 1587, he became the first Vasa to rule the Commonwealth. When his father died in 1592, he added Sweden's crown and tried to weld the two realms into a single Catholic state. Protestant Sweden revolted; his uncle Charles led the opposition and deposed him in 1599, ending the union in blood. Sigismund turned his attention east and south: during Russia's Time of Troubles his forces seized Smolensk and occupied Moscow, pushing the Commonwealth to its greatest territorial extent. His armies also broke Ottoman forces in the southeast, contributing to the fall of Sultan Osman II. At home he imposed Catholicism with Jesuit backing, clashed with parliament, and in 1596 shifted the capital from Kraków to Warsaw. He died 30 April 1632, leaving a realm at the height of its Golden Age but already seeded with the fissures that would undo it.
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