Sigismund II

noun

1. Sigismund II15201572MPolishPOLITICS: hereditary ruler called Sigismund Augustus. 1520–72, king of Poland (1548–72), who united Poland, Lithuania, and their dependencies by the Union of Lublin (1569)

Example Sentences

The gesture would aim to underscore the close relations between the two nations and governments as well as to reciprocate for Hungary’s decision to hand over last year a gilded suit of armor of the 16th century Polish king Sigismund II Augustus.

From Seattle Times

By his side lies the body of his son Sigismund II., the last of the Jagellons, at whose death began the cabals and convulsions of an elective monarchy, by which Poland lost her influence among foreign powers.

From Project Gutenberg

Augusto�vo, a town of Poland, formerly in Russia, in the government of Suwalki, founded in 1557 by Sigismund II.

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Of more immediate consequence was an arrangement made in 1569 with the representatives of Joachim’s kinsman, Albert Frederick, duke of Prussia, after which the elector obtained the joint investiture of the duchy of Prussia from Sigismund II., king of Poland, and was assured of the succession if the duke’s family became extinct.

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He also made many panels in distemper, which have been all lost or destroyed in the troublous times of Rome; one being in the Church of S. Maria Maggiore, in a little chapel near the sacristy, wherein are four saints, so well wrought that they appear to be in relief, and in the midst of them is S. Maria della Neve, with the portrait from nature of Pope Martin, who is tracing out the foundations of that church with a hoe, and beside him the Emperor Sigismund II.

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