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Sigismund I

Type Figure Region Poland Time 1467–1548 Also known as Old Sigismund、Sigismund I (Poland)

Sigismund I was King of Poland and Grand Duke of Lithuania (1506–1548), one of the last Jagiellonian monarchs, called 'Sigismund I the Old' by Wester…

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  1. 1511–1515Vilnius · Polish–Lithuanian CommonwealthBeginning in 1512, the Smolensk War broke out with Grand Prince Vasily III of Moscow; he held the eastern frontier with Lithuanian noble levies and Polish reinforcements. Smolensk fell to Moscow in 1514, and although the Battle of Orsha that same year was a great victory, the city was not recovered; he also reformed frontier defenses against the Teutonic Order.
  2. 1516–1520Kraków · Lesser PolandIn 1518 he married the Italian Bona Sforza, introducing Renaissance art and court etiquette, strengthening parliamentary taxation and royal finances, making Kraków a center of humanist exchange in Central Europe, and paving the way for a later Habsburg marriage alliance.

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