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  Catherine Jagiellon - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Catherine Jagiellon (Polish: Katarzyna Jagiellonka; Finnish: Katariina Jagellonica; Swedish: Katarina Jagellonica av Polen; November 1, 1526 - September 16, 1583) was Duchess of Finland 1562-83, Queen Consort of Sweden 1569-83 and Grand Duchess of Finland 1581-83 and heir to her mother's claim to the title of King of Jerusalem.
She was born as the youngest daughter of Poland's King Zygmunt I the Old and Bona Sforza Catherine became the wife of Sweden's King John III and mother to the future King of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, Sigismund III Vasa.
Bianca Maria Visconti, heiress of the Visconti dynasty, Duchess of Milan, Catherine's great-great-grandmother.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Catherine_of_Poland   (495 words)

  
 Catherine Jagiellon - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography
Catherine Jagiellon (Polish: Katarzyna Jagiellonka; Finnish: Katariina Jagellonica; November 1,1526 - September 16 1583) was the youngest daughter of Poland's King Zygmunt I the Old and Bona Sforza, heir to her mother's claim to the title of King of Jerusalem, Dutchess of Finland and later the Queen of Sweden.
Catherine became the wife of Sweden's King John III and mother to the future King of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, Zygmunt III Vasa.
On October 4, 1562, in Vilnius, Lithuania, Catherine married Duke John of Finland, second son of Sweden's King Gustav I.
www.arikah.net /encyclopedia/Catherine_Jagiellonica   (340 words)

  
 John III of Sweden - Wikipedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
He was born on December 23, 1537 as the son of Gustav I of Sweden, and died on November 27, 1592.
He married his first wife, Catherine of Poland (1526-1583), house of Jagiello, in Vilnius on October 4, 1562.
In Sweden she is known as Katarina Jagellonica and she was the sister of king Sigismund II of Poland.
wikipedia.findthelinks.com /jo/John_III_of_Sweden.html   (170 words)

  
 John III of Sweden - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Besides he was an eager patron of art and architecture.
John married his first wife, Catherine Jagellonica of Poland (1526–1583), house of Jagiello, in Vilnius on October 4, 1562.
In Sweden she is known as Katarina Jagellonica and she was the sister of king Sigismund II Augustus of Poland.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Duke_John_of_Finland   (469 words)

  
 Ancestors and Family of Catherine of Poland Jagellonica   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
Ancestors and Family of Catherine of Poland Jagellonica
In Sweden she is known as Katarina Jagellonica.
Catherine married John III of Sweden Vasa, son of Gustav I Vasa and Margareta Lejonhufvud, on 4 Oct 1562 in Vilnius, Lithuania.
nygaard.howards.net /files/3/2753.htm   (68 words)

  
 Augustus Hare Society Pages
One of his daughters-in-law was the famous Polish princess, Queen Catherine Jagellonica, who tried hard to upset the new religion, and inculcated Catholicism upon her son, King Sigismund, who was deposed, on religious grounds, in favour of his uncle, Charles IX., the father of Gustavus Adolphus.
This Queen Catherine Jagellonica has a fine tomb in a side chapel of Upsala Cathedral.
Of these, John was immured here by Eric XIV., with his wife Catherine Jagellonica, who, during her imprisonment, gave birth to her son Sigismund (afterwards Sigismund III.
augustus-hare.tripod.com /sketchesinsweden.html   (3004 words)

  
 John III of Sweden - WikiGadugi   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
Eric, John, Catherine, Cecilia, Magnus, Anna, Sofia, Elizabeth, Charles
ᎦᎳᏅᎯ ᏕᎨᎦᏨᏍᏔᏅ ᎤᏤᎵ ᎢᎬᏱ ᎤᏍᏓᏴᎲᏍᎩ, Catherine Jagellonica Poland (1526–1583), ᎦᎵᏦᏕ Jagiello, ᎭᏫᎾᏗᏢ Vilnius ᎾᎿ ᏚᏂᏃᏗ 4, 1562.
ᎭᏫᎾᏗᏢ Sweden ᎾᏍᎩ ᎠᎨᏴ ᎨᏒᎢ ᎤᎾᏅᏛ ᏥᏄᏍᏗ Katarina Jagellonica ᎠᎴ ᎾᏍᎩ ᎠᎨᏴ ᏥᏄᏍᏛᎩ ᎯᎠ ᎤᎸ ᎤᎬᏫᏳᎯ Sigismund ᎧᏬᎳᏕᏍᎬ Augustus Poland.
www.wikigadugi.org /wiki/John_III_of_Sweden   (442 words)

  
 THE MIDDLE AGES AND A PIECE OF FINNISH HISTORY
In 1562, however, Johan wedded the sister of the King of Poland, Catherine Jagellonica.
Karin was then obliged to move, along with the family hers, to a residence awarded to her, the Manor of Vääksy in Kangasala.
The monarch issued the command to invade the Castle of Turku in the summer of 1563, and only nine months after Catherine"s arrival, the Duke and Duchess were escorted in captivity to Sweden.
www.tkukoulu.fi /tiimalasi/en/en-history.html   (3392 words)

  
 1583 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
Fadrique Alvarez de Toledo, Duke of Alva, Spanish army commander (born 1537)
Catherine Jagellonica of Poland, queen of John II of Sweden (born 1526)
This page was last modified 20:38, 11 July 2006.
tso.fatechan.net /nph-proxy.cgi/000110A/http/en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1583   (489 words)

  
 Copernicus Definition / Copernicus Research   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
May - Nicolaus Copernicus publishes De revolutionibus orbium coelestium July 12 - King Henry VIII of England marries Catherine Parr.
It is the sixth of Henry's marriages and the third of Catherine's.
Princess Elizabeth attends the wedding Nice is captured and sacked by a Franco-Turkish fleet under Khair ed-Din Barbarossa.
www.elresearch.com /Copernicus   (1043 words)

  
 Untitled Document
The princess from Vilnius brought the glory of the renaissance to the medieval Turku.
Although the magnificent parties of Juhana and Kotryna in Finland lasted less than one year, ending in prison in Sweden when their marriage, the liaison between the Swedish ruling dynasty of Vasa and the Polish ruling dynasty of Jagellonica, would effect the politics and culture of northern and eastern Europe for 60 years to come.
Princess Kotryna Jogailaite is better known as Catherine Jagellonica in English, or Katerina Jagiello in Polish.
www.vilniusmonthly.lt /country.htm   (1726 words)

  
 Oikeusministeriö - Justitieministeriet   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
In these very halls - the King's Hall and the Queen's Hall - a particularly glamorous Renaissance life was led in the 1560s.
The hosts at that time were John, the Duke of Finland and his Polish spouse Catherine Jagellonica.
As always splendour has its dark side - in addition to festive halls all castles have deep dungeons.
www.om.fi /1847.htm   (410 words)

  
 news of the society   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
As a result of this Turku lost the capital title and the famous old university in favour of a small fishing village, Helsinki, which had been only recently raised to a town corporation.
More history of Finland and nearby areas was delivered during the Congress banquet which took place at the medieval Turku Castle under the hospitality of Duke John of Finland and his spouse Duchess Catherine Jagellonica.
The dinner was prepared and served according to the style of the seventeenth century and it was accompanied by a programme of the Renaissance time.
www.e-sga.org /news4/art3.html   (1556 words)

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