Isabella Jagiellonica

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Isabella Jagiellonica (miniature by Lukas Cranach)

Isabella Jagiellonica (Polish Izabela Jagiellonka ; born January 18, 1519 in Krakow , † September 15, 1559 in Alba Iulia ) was a Polish-Lithuanian princess of the Jagiellonian family . From 1539 to 1540 she was Queen of Hungary by marriage .

Life

Isabella was the daughter of the Polish King Sigismund I of Poland from his marriage to Bona Sforza . She was married to the Hungarian King Johann Zápolya in 1539 . On July 8, 1540 she gave birth to Johann Sigismund Zápolya. Her husband passed away two weeks after the birth of his son. From then on, Isabella's fight began as queen widow to secure the Hungarian throne for her underage son, who was elected King of Hungary ("electus rex").

After Buda was taken by the troops of the Ottoman Empire in 1541, Sultan Suleyman I assigned her Transylvania as a sovereign territory, where she ruled in the name of her underage son. However, the real power lay in the hands of Cardinal György Martinuzzi . In the summer of 1551 she left Transylvania, which fell to Ferdinand I through the Nyírbátor Treaty . She returned to Transylvania in 1556 with her son and her advisor Mihály Csáky .

Isabella died on September 15, 1559 in Alba Iulia. Her grave is in the Catholic Cathedral .

progeny

A son emerged from his marriage to Johann:

literature

  • Karl Nehring: Isabella (Izabella) . In: Biographical Lexicon on the History of Southeast Europe . Volume 2. Munich 1976, p. 240 f.
  • Alicia McNary Forsey: Queen Isabella Sforza Szapolyai of Transylvania and Sultan Süleyman of the Ottoman Empire. A case of sixteenth-century Muslim-Christian collaboration . Mellen, Lewiston 2009, ISBN 978-0-7734-4653-3

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SURNAME Jagiellonica, Isabella
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Izabela Jagiellonka
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Polish princess and by marriage Queen of Hungary
DATE OF BIRTH January 18, 1519
PLACE OF BIRTH Krakow , Poland
DATE OF DEATH September 15, 1559
Place of death Alba Iulia , Hungary (now Romania )