Jadwiga Jagiellon (1513–1573)

Jadwiga Jagiellon (1513–1573)

Jadwiga Jagiellon ( _lt. Jadvyga Jogailaitė; _pl. Jadwiga Jagiellonka) (1513-1573), also known as Hedwig ( _de. Hedwig Jagiellonica) was the eldest daughter of King Zygmunt I Stary of Poland and Hungarian princess Barbara Zápolya.

Jadwiga was described by Olaus Magnus, who met her in 1528, as a "very beautiful, wise maiden [...] finer than all the riches I have just mentioned, and worthy of a glorious realm". [cite book
last = Magnus
first = Olaus
authorlink =
coauthors = P. Fisher & H. Higgens (trans.); P. G. Foote (ed.)
title = A Description of the Northern Peoples
publisher = The Hakluyt Society
date = 1998
location = London
pages = 660
url =
doi =
id =
isbn = 0904180581
]

In 29 August or 1 September 1535 Jadwiga married in Kraków Joachim II Hector, Elector of Brandenburg. As the Jagiellon dynasty was Catholic, Joachim II promised Sigismund he would not make Jadwiga change her religion and gave her as a dowry county of Ruppin as well as the cities Alt Ruppin and Neuruppin.

Children

Jadwiga and Joachim had six children:
* Elisabeth Magdalena (September 6 1537 - August 22 1595), wife of Francis Otto, Duke of Braunschweig-Lüneburg,
* Sigismund (December 2 1538 - September 14 1566), bishop of Magdeburg and Halberstadt,
* Jadwiga (March 2 1540 - October 21 1602), wife of Julius, Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg,
* Sophia (December 14 1541 - June 27 1564), wife of Wiliam of Rosenberg,
* Joachim (1543 - March 23 1544),
* unknown daughter, born and died 1545.

Ancestors


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1= Jadwiga Jagiellon
2= Sigismund I the Old
3= Barbara Zápolya
4= Casimir IV Jagiellon
5= Elisabeth of Austria
6= Stephen Zápolya
7= Jadwiga of Cieszyn
8= Jogaila
9= Sophia of Halshany
10=Albert II of Germany
11=Elisabeth II of Bohemia
12=László Zápolya
13=Dorothea
14=Przemysł II of Cieszyn
15=Anna of Warsaw

References


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