Bona Sforza of Milan
(1494-1557)

 

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Spouses/Children:
Sigismund I of Poland

Bona Sforza of Milan 1 2

  • Born: 2 Feb 1494
  • Marriage: Sigismund I of Poland in 1518
  • Died: 19 Nov 1557 aged 63

  General Notes:

In 1518 Sigismund married the niece of the Holy Roman emperor Maximilian, Bona Sforza of Milan, by whom he had one son, Sigismund II Augustus (elected co-king in 1530), and four daughters. One of them later married John III of Sweden, from whom the Vasa kings of Sweden were descended.


Bona married Sigismund I of Poland, son of Casimir IV of Poland and Elizabeth of Bohemia Habsburg, in 1518. (Sigismund I of Poland was born on 1 Jan 1467 and died on 1 Apr 1548 in Kraków, Poland.)


Sources


1 Encyclopędia Britannica Online, "Sigismund I".

2 Wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/).

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