Therefore, many voices, including Sigismund, King of Germany and Hungary ( and later Holy Roman Emperor ) pressed for another council to resolve the issue.

Sigismund personally led an army of almost 50, 000 " crusaders " against the Croats and Bosnians, which culminated in 1408 with the Battle of Dobor, and a massacre of about 200 noble families, many of them victors of numerous battles against the Ottomans.

Sigismund and many Polish magnates attempted to exploit the Muscovite civil war ( the Time of Troubles ), and after a lengthy war the 1618 Truce of Deulino gave some territorial concessions to the Commonwealth ( mainly the Smoleńsk Voivodship ).

While the Commonwealth Sejm managed to thwart many of the plans of Sigismund ( and later of his son, Wladislaw ), the Vasa dynasty nonetheless succeeded in partially drawing the Commonwealth into the Thirty Years ' War.

In 1624 king Sigismund decided that time has come for Władysław to travel, like many of his peers, to Western Europe.

Sigismund and many German princes arrived before the walls of Prague on June 30 at the head of a vast army of crusaders from all parts of Europe, largely consisting of adventurers attracted by the possibility of pillage.

The young knight served many powerful magnates and strategists of Sigismund, including Stefan Lazarević and Philippo Scolari.

In 1562 many Székelys took up arms against John II Sigismund, but they were defeated.

In February, 1594 Sigismund Báthory announced that his country would join the anti-Ottoman alliance formed by the Holy Roman Emperor, Rudolf II, Philip II of Spain and many smaller Italian and German states.

After 1291, the town received many privileges from Hungarian kings, especially from the emperor Sigismund in the 15th century.

Along with the Italian queen Bona Sforza ( second wife of Sigismund I of Poland ) many Italian cooks came to Poland after 1518.

On December 12, 1408, following the Battle of Dobor in which he slaughtered most of Bosnia's nobility, many of whom had fought the Turks ; Sigismund and his queen, Barbara of Celje, founded the league known today as the Order of the Dragon.

He invited many scientists from various parts of Europe and expanded the library, with the sponsorship of many notable persons: Sigismund II Augustus, Bishop Walerian Protasewicz, and Kazimierz Lew Sapieha.

40 dead and slightly more than 200 wounded while King Sigismund lost 2, 000 soldiers, many of them drowned in the river while they retreated.

In the 16th century the town was visited by many notable persons, such as Jan Kochanowski, King Sigismund III, and Maciej Kazimierz Sarbiewski.

Zawisza was a diplomat as often as a warrior, being many times an envoy for the Polish king Władysław II and Hungarian-Bohemian king Sigismund of Luxembourg.

This marriage was opposed by many nobles ( szlachta ) of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, who were opposed to the alliance with the Habsburgs that Sigismund pursued.

Anne and Sigismund fell in love and Anne gained the friendship and respect of many of her former enemies with her politeness and culture.

In July 1618, after many warnings to the Commonwealth, the young and ambitious sultan Osman II send a letter to king Sigismund III with the threats of a new war and the burning of Kraków.

However, as the situation in Russia deteriorated, Sigismund and many Commonwealth magnates, especially those with estates and forces near the Russian border, began to look for a way to profit from the chaos and weakness of their eastern neighbour.

Although many Polish nobles and soldiers were fighting for the second False Dmitriy at the time, Sigismund III and the troops under his command did not act in support of Dimitriy's to the throne – Sigismund III wanted Russia himself.

In August 1610 many Russian boyars accepted that Sigismund III was victorious and that Władysław would become the next tsar if he converted to Eastern Orthodoxy.

( The Council of Constance was called by the German King and later Holy Roman Emperor Sigismund and only obtained papal confirmation later.

* Sigismund Ernst Richard Krone ( 1861-1917 ), German naturalist.

Sigismund ( variants: Sigmund, Siegmund ) is a German proper name, meaning " protection through victory ", from Old High German sigu " victory " + munt " hand, protection ".

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

German chemist Andreas Sigismund Marggraf is normally given credit for discovering pure metallic zinc in 1746.

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.

By his second wife, Barbara of Celje, he left an only daughter, Elisabeth of Luxembourg, who was married to Albert V, duke of Austria ( later German king as Albert II ) whom Sigismund named as his successor.

After passing some time at the court of Emperor Sigismund, Albert took part in the war against the Hussites, and afterwards distinguished himself whilst assisting the German king, Albert II, against Poland.

Polyglotta Africana is a study written by the German missionary Sigismund Wilhelm Koelle in 1854 in which he compared 156 African languages ( or about 120 according to today's classification ; several varieties considered distinct by Koelle were later shown to belong to the same language ).

Finally in 1415, the right of electing their landammann was given to Zug by the Confederation, and a share in the criminal jurisdiction was granted to the Aeusser Amt by German king Sigismund.

In 1430 King Sigismund summoned the nobles of the Holy Roman Empire to a Reichstag in the city of Nuremberg and Oswald with his brother Michael immediately left Tyrol to meet the King, who instead of going directly to Nuremberg undertook a two-month detour to the South German cities of Überlingen and Constance to celebrate Christmas.

He compared the handwriting of the five leading " suspects " ( Duncan-Sandys ; Douglas Fairbanks, Jr .; John Cohane, an American businessman ; Peter Combe, a former press officer at the Savoy Hotel ; and Sigismund von Braun, brother of the German scientist Wernher von Braun ) with the captions written on the photographs.

Under the influence of his brother Sigismund, King Wenceslaus IV ( Václav in Czech, Wenzel in German ) of Bohemia endeavoured to stem the Hussite movement.

In 1415 the city bought its liberty from the German king Sigismund.

Cafe Backus, in the distance the German border The British SIS had assigned two agents to the case, Captain Sigismund Payne Best ( an experienced British Army intelligence officer and well connected businessman in the Netherlands, who at the time was residing in The Hague together with his Dutch wife ) and Major Richard Henry Stevens ( a less-experienced intelligence operative working covert for the British SIS as a passport control officer in The Hague, Netherlands ).

Rudolf Otto Sigismund Lipschitz ( 14 May 1832 – 7 October 1903 ) was a German mathematician and professor at the University of Bonn from 1864.

Among visitors who came here, were Mikolaj Rej, King Wladyslaw Jagiello, German emperor Sigismund, and other personalities.

Sigismund, the pro-papal king of Hungary and successor to the Bohemian throne after the death of Wenceslas in 1419, failed repeatedly in attempts to gain control of the kingdom despite aid by Hungarian and German armies.

* German chemist Andreas Sigismund Marggraf ( 1709 – 1782 ) is credited with describing zinc as a separate metal.

* March 3-Andreas Sigismund Marggraf, German chemist ( died 1782 )

The German Empire of 1871-1918 had re-introduced the medieval coat of arms of the Holy Roman Emperors, in use during the 13th and 14th centuries ( a black single-headed eagle on a golden background ), before the emperors adopted the double-headed eagle, beginning with Sigismund of Luxemburg in 1433.