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Anne (Anna of Inner Austria) b. August 16, 1573 d. February 10, 1598
Queen of Poland and Sweden. She was originally Archduchess-Princess of Austria, Duchess of Styria there, belonged to the Habsburg Dynasty and became the first consort of King Sigmund III in 1592. Her private nickname was "Andle". In six years, she bore five children of whom a son and all three daughters died young. She was Queen of both countries for seven years, from the year of her marriage until her death, and thus missed by a year her husband's official dethronement in Sweden in 1599. All...[Read More] (Bio by: J T Demitz)
Wawel Cathedral, Krakow, Poland
Plot: Vasa Chapel
Augustus II the Strong b. May 12, 1670 d. February 1, 1733
Polish Monarch. King from 1697 to 1733. As Frederick Augustus I, he was elector of Saxony from 1694 to 1733. His coronation as King of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth was on September 15, 1697. He served until 1706 and then again from 1709 until his death in 1733. (Bio by: Mr. Denardo)
Wawel Cathedral, Krakow, Poland
Celje, Anna Of b. 1380 d. March, 1416
Queen of Poland. Daughter of Count William of Celje and Anna of Poland. Wife of Wladislaw Jagiello of Poland. (Bio by: girlofcelje)
Wawel Cathedral, Krakow, Poland
Holszany, Sophia b. 1405 d. September 21, 1461
Queen of Poland. Daughter of Prince Andre Holszany and fourth wife of King Wladislaw II Jagiello of Poland. (Bio by: girlofcelje)
Wawel Cathedral, Krakow, Poland
Jan I Olbracht b. December 27, 1459 d. June 17, 1501
Polish Monarch. He was Duke of Glogow from 1491 to 1498. He succeeded his father as King on September 23, 1492 and served until his own death in 1501. His father was King Kazimierz IV Jagiellon. (Bio by: Mr. Denardo)
Wawel Cathedral, Krakow, Poland
Kiev, Dobronega Of d. 1087
Queen of Poland. Wife of King Casimir the First. (Bio by: girlofcelje)
Wawel Cathedral, Krakow, Poland
Kosciuszko, Thaddeus b. February 4, 1746 d. October 15, 1817
Polish hero of the American Revolution, one of several foreign-born soldiers who joined the American forces for a variety of reasons, but who added some well-needed professionalism to the Colonials’ rough-hewn tactics and tenuous grasp of strategy. Kosciuszko’s specialty was engineering. He had studied Military Engineering in Paris under the disciples of Vauban, the great French fortification builder. He came to the Colonies shortly after Independence was declared and was immediately assigned...[Read More] (Bio by: Paul F. Wilson)
Wawel Cathedral, Krakow, Poland
Leszczynski, Stanislaw b. October 20, 1670 d. February 23, 1766
Polish Monarch. King of the Polish Lithuanian Commonwealth and he was the last Duke of Lorraine. His reign was from 1704 to 1709 and then again from 1733 to 1736. He died in Luneville and was originally buried at Notre-Dame de Bon-Secours Chapel in Nancy, France. (Bio by: Mr. Denardo)
Wawel Cathedral, Krakow, Poland
Lithuania, Aldona Of b. 1309 d. May 26, 1339
Queen of Poland. Daughter of Gediminas of Lithuania and wife of Casimir III. (Bio by: girlofcelje)
Wawel Cathedral, Krakow, Poland
Lokietek, Ladislaus I b. 1260 d. 1333
King of Poland. He was the son of Duke Casimir I of Cujavia and the Duchess Eufrozyna of Opole.In 1293, he married Princess Hedvig (Jadwiga) of Great Poland. At the beginning of his reign, Lokietek was faced with powerful enemies from many sides. Through an incredible effort and persistence, the king, variously known as Wladyslaw the Short or Wladyslaw the Elbow-High, managed to unite the Polish state with Cracow as its new capital. Lokietek's major achievement was obtaining the Pope's...[Read More] (Bio by: rjschatz)
Wawel Cathedral, Krakow, Poland
Mickiewicz, Adam Bernard b. December 24, 1798 d. November 26, 1855
Poet and Writer. Known as Poland's greatest romantic writer of the 19th century. (Bio by: Helaine M. Cigal)
Wawel Cathedral, Krakow, Poland
Pilica, Elizabeth Of d. 1420
Queen of Poland. Third wife of King Wadislaw II Jagiello. (Bio by: girlofcelje)
Wawel Cathedral, Krakow, Poland
Poniatowski, Jósef Antoni Prince b. May 7, 1763 d. October 19, 1813
Polish general and Maréchal de France, nephew of Stanislaus II., the last King of Poland. In 1807 he became minister of war of the grand duchy of Warsaw. He led polish troops in Napoleons sucessful campain against Austria in 1809 and in the emperors less sucessful campain against Russia in 1812. During the Battle of Leipzig in October 1813 Napoleon made him Maréchal de France for his bravery. After Napoleons victory he was suposed to become the next King of Poland by Napoleon grace. He covered...[Read More] (Bio by: Lutetia)
Wawel Cathedral, Krakow, Poland
Sigmund III Vasa (Sigismund of Sweden) b. June 20, 1566 d. April 19, 1632
King of Poland and Sweden. Also known as Zygmunt III Waza and nicknamed Zys, he was the only king of Sweden by the name. Belonging to the Vasa Dynasty, and Poland's first king of it, he was the son of King John III of Sweden and his first queen, Catherine, originally a Princess of Poland of the Jagiellan Dynasty. He was King of Poland in union with Lithuania and the Ukraine from 1587 to 1632 and simultaneously of Sweden from 1592 to 1599, creating an odd union between the Polish and Swedish...[Read More] (Bio by: Find A Grave)
Wawel Cathedral, Krakow, Poland
Sigmunt I the Old b. 1467 d. 1548
Polish Monarch. As the fifth ruler of the Jagiellon dynasty, he reigned as King of Poland from 1506 to his death in 1548. (Bio by: Kasia)
Wawel Cathedral, Krakow, Poland
Slowacki, Juliusz b. September 4, 1809 d. April 4, 1849
Poet. He is the considered the second National Poet of Poland after Adam Mickiewicz. His work, typified with poems, plays and sonnets, included "Balladyna", "My Testament", "King Ghost", " Fantazy", "Kordian"," Beniowski" , "Agamemnon’s Tomb", "Silver Dream of Salomea ", "Hymn", "Lilia Weneda", "Anhelli". He is buried in Wawel Cathedral, in the same crypt as Mickiewicz. (Bio by: Kasia)
Wawel Cathedral, Krakow, Poland
Sobieski III., Jan b. 1629 d. June 17, 1696
Elected king of Poland, elected on May 21, 1674, crowned on February 2, 1676, abdicated in 1686. Savior of Vienna in 1683 (Siege of the Turks).
Cause of death: stroke
Wawel Cathedral, Krakow, Poland
Staggerer, Mieszko The b. 1138 d. May 16, 1211
Prince of Poland. He was married to Ludmilla of Silesia. (Bio by: girlofcelje)
Wawel Cathedral, Krakow, Poland
Szczepanowski, Saint Stanislaus b. July 26, 1030 d. May 8, 1079
Roman Catholic Saint. He is Poland's national hero. A predecessor of Pope John Paul II, he headed the diocese of Cracow. His parents were religiously devout nobility. He was educated for the priesthood in Gnesen, Poland, and in Paris. A priest of the Cracow diocese, Stanislaus developed a reputation as a preacher and spiritual director. His words and deeds produced a lay and clerical following which practiced Christian...[Read More] (Bio by: rjschatz)
Wawel Cathedral, Krakow, Poland
Vasa, John II. Casimir b. March 22, 1609 d. December 16, 1672
Polish King. Youngest son of King Sigismund III. Vasa and his second wife Constance of Austria. In 1640 he joined the Society of Jesus. He was Cardinal when he was elected to succeed his halfbrother Ladislaus IV. as king. During his reign he fought several wars. First he fought a alliance of the Cossacks, Tatars and the Ottoman Empire, later Russia and from 1655 on against Sweden under Charles X., too. In the Peace of Oliva he had renounce his rights of succession on the Swedish throne and...[Read More] (Bio by: Lutetia)
Wawel Cathedral, Krakow, Poland
Plot: [Body without heart]

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