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Queen consort of Poland, grandduchess consort of Lithuania. Borbála Barbara Queen Consort of Poland Szapolyay de Szepes (Szapolyay) aka Zápolya (1495 - certain 2 Oct 1515)
Queen of Poland and Grand Duchess of Lithuania as the first wife of the king of Poland Sigismund I. the Old. She was the daughter of a Hungarian noble, Stefan Zápolya, and Polish princess Hedwig of Cieszyn.Barbara was a younger sister of future King of Hungary János Zápolya (1487-1540).
The Szapolyai or Zápolya family was a noble family in the Kingdom of Hungary in the second half of the 15th century and in the early 16th century. A member of the family, John Szapolyai , was King of Hungary between 1526 and 1540, but he only ruled the central and eastern parts of the kingdom, because many Hungarian lords and prelates supported his opponent, Ferdinand of Habsburg .
Ioan I Zápolya. Ioan Zapolya ( maghiară Szapolyai János sau Zápolya János) (n. 1487 - d. 22 iulie 1540) a fost voievod de Transilvania între 1526 și 1540 și a ridicat pretenții la tronul Ungariei. El a fost fiul lui Ștefan Szapolyai și al prințesei Hedvig din Cehia. Ioan Zapolya s-a aflat în fruntea unui grup de nobili unguri care ...
Vladislaus's brother, Polish king Sigismund I the Old, married John's younger sister, Barbara Zápolya in early 1512. This increased the influence of the Zápolyas, but only in the short term, as Barbara died in 1515. To show off his wealth, John went with Barbara to Poland accompanied by 800 horsemen who wore gilded clothes.
Barbara Zapolya (fl. 1500)Queen of Poland. Name variations: Barbara Zápolya of Hungary; Szapolyai. Flourished in 1500; sister of John or Jan Zapolya, king of Hungary (r. 1526–1540); first wife of Sigismund I the Elder, king of Poland (r. 1506–1548); children:Hedwig of Poland (1513–1573, who married Joachim II, elector of Brandenburg).
Barbara Zápolya (Hungarian: Szapolyai Borbála, 1495–1515) was Queen of Poland and Grand Duchess of Lithuania as the first wife of King Sigismund I the Old from 1512 to 1515. Marriage to Barbara represented an alliance between Sigismund and the House of Zápolya against the Habsburgs in succession disputes over the throne to the Kingdom of Hungary. The alliance was short-lived as the ...
