* 1594 – Having already inherited the throne of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth through his mother Catherine Jagellonica of Poland in 1587, Sigismund III of the House of Vasa is crowned King of Sweden, having succeeded his father John III of Sweden in 1592.

Sigismund III wanted to regain the throne of Sweden and tried to force Gustavus Adolphus to renounce the title.

It therefore proved somewhat damaging that Sigismund of Luxemburg ( king 1410, emperor 1433 – 37 ) and Frederick III of Habsburg ( king 1440, emperor 1452 – 93 ) neglected the old core lands of the empire and mostly resided in their own lands.

The Commonwealth, assertive militarily under King Stephen Báthory, suffered from dynastic distractions during the reigns of the Vasa kings Sigismund III and Władysław IV.

** 1608 – 1618: John I / III Sigismund ( Regent, also Elector of Brandenburg )

* 1618 – 1619: John I / III Sigismund ( Regent, also Elector of Brandenburg )

In 1611, John Sigismund traveled from Köningsberg to Warsaw, where on 16 November 1611 he gave feudal homage to Sigismund III Vasa, King of Poland ( the Duchy of Prussia was a Polish fief at the time ).

Emperor Sigismund himself was an heir of Casimir III, as eldest son of his mother Elisabeth of Pomerania, who was since 1377 the only surviving child of Elisabeth of Poland, herself daughter of Casimir III from his first marriage with Aldona Gediminaite of Lithuania.

His determined Prussian wife showed a strong dislike for this Swedish suitor, because Prussia was a Polish fief and the Polish King Sigismund III Vasa still resented his loss of Sweden to Gustavus Adolphus ' father Charles IX.

* 1611 – Russian homage to the King of Poland, Sigismund III Vasa.

Gregory interfered little in European politics, beyond assisting Ferdinand II, Holy Roman Emperor, and the Catholic League against the Protestants -- to the tune of a million gold ducats -- as well as Sigismund III Vasa, King of the Polish – Lithuanian Commonwealth, against the Ottoman Empire.

* Sigismund III Vasa ( 1566 – 1632 ), King of Sweden ( as Sigismund ) and Poland, Grand Duke of Lithuania

* Prince Sigismund of Prussia ( 1864-1866 ), the fourth child of Friedrich III, German Emperor and Princess Victoria of the United Kingdom

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Saint Stephen of Hungary ( in fact Sigismund III of Poland depicted as rex sacerdos in coronation robe )

* Kolumna Zygmunta ( Sigismund's Column ) is erected in Warsaw to commemorate King Sigismund III Vasa, who moved the capital of Poland from Kraków to Warsaw in 1596.

* June 20 – King Sigismund III Vasa of Poland and Sweden ( d. 1632 )

* November 8 – Wladyslaw IV Waza is elected king of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth after Sigismund III Vasa's death.

* April 19 – Sigismund III Vasa, King of Sweden ( 1592 – 1599 ) and Poland ( 1587 – 1632 ) ( b. 1566 )

* King Sigismund III Vasa moves the capital of Poland from Kraków to Warsaw.

After some delay Sigismund assented to the offer, with the provision that Prussia should be treated as a Polish fiefdom ; and after this arrangement had been confirmed by a treaty concluded at Kraków, Albert pledged a personal oath to Sigismund I and was invested with the duchy for himself and his heirs on 10 February 1525.

He was next sent by the Pope to the Emperor Sigismund to ask his aid in the pope's efforts to end this Council, which for five years had been encroaching on papal prerogatives.

# Katharina ( b. Meissen, 24 July 1468 – d. Göttingen, 10 February 1524 ), married firstly on 24 February 1484 in Innsbruck to Duke Sigismund of Austria, and secondly on 1497 to Duke Eric I of Brunswick-Calenberg.

Born in Cölln on the Spree, George William was the son of John Sigismund, Margrave of Brandenburg and Anna of Prussia.

In 1386, Jadwiga's mother Elizabeth and her sister Queen Mary of Hungary were kidnapped, probably on the order of Mary's husband and consort Sigismund.

The Elector John Sigismund, Maria Eleonora's father, died on 23 December 1619, and the prospect of a Swedish marriage seemed gone with him.

News of Mary's betrothal to Louis provoked open oppposition from the House of Lacković, the master of the treasury Nicholas Zambo and the judge royal Nicholas Szécsi and continued to support Sigismund, now putting Hungary on the verge of civil war.

Sigismund fled to his brother's court in Prague and, following Mary's abdication, Charles was crowned on 31 December, with Mary and her mother forced to attend his coronation.

Sigismund marched into Slavonia in January 1387, unsuccessfully attempting to release Mary and Elizabeth, who was strangled in front of her daughter on the orders of their jailer, John of Palisna.

As the kingdom could no longer be without an effective ruler, Sigismund was crowned on 31 March.

Sigismund liberated Mary with the help of Venetian fleet on 4 June.

The Pope on 12 July 1420 conceded indulgence to any who would contribute to a crusade against the latter, which would be led by Sigismund, King of the Romans.

Hoping to gain an advantage in the dispute, Wolfgang William converted to Catholicism ; John Sigismund, on the other hand, converted to Calvinism ( although Anna of Prussia stayed Lutheran ).

Only after Sigismund von Herberstein in his Notes on Muscovite Affairs ( 1549 ) had reported, following Russian sources, that there are mountains behind the Pechora and identified them with the Ripheans and Hyperboreans of ancient authors, did the existence of the Urals, or at least of its northern part, become firmly established in the Western geography.

* March – Archduke Sigismund of Austria, largely on the poor advice of his counselors, declares war on Venice and seizes silver mines in and around the Valsugana Valley.

In 1388 Jobst became Margrave of Brandenburg, given in pawn by his cousin Sigismund, son of Charles IV, who focused on the Kingdom of Hungary.

After the death of German king Rupert in 1410, Jobst was elected successor by four of the electors on 1 October, opposing his cousin Sigismund who had already been elected by three electors on 10 September.

When Sigismund died in 1437, Albert was crowned king of Hungary on 1 January 1438, and just as his predecessor did, he moved his court to the Hungarian Kingdom from where he later oversaw his other domains.

The disagreement between Polish landlords of Lesser Poland on one side and landlords of Greater Poland on the other, regarding the choice of the future King of Poland, finally ended in choosing the Lithuanian side ; the support of the lords of Greater Poland was not enough to give Prince Sigismund the Polish crown.

Vasili IV of Russia | Tsar Shuisky and his Brothers before the King Sigismund III in the Senate Chamber at the Royal Castle, Warsaw | Royal Castle in Warsaw