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18 unusual facts about Sigismund


Avaskär

In 1598, Sigismund arrived with his fleet to Avaskär and traveled from there to Kalmar to assert his right to the throne of Sweden (see War against Sigismund).

Bejsce

It was modelled after Wawel’s Sigismund's Chapel, and the Bejsce chapel is regarded as one of the finest examples of Renaissance chapels in Poland.

Bernardino of Siena

Holy Roman Emperor Sigismund sought Bernardino's counsel and intercession and Bernardino accompanied him to Rome in 1433 for his coronation.

Dmitar Mrnjavčević

Dmitar served in the Army of the King and had the title of Great Župan of Zarand and royally appointed commander "castellan" of the city of Vilagoš (modern-day Șiria) by Sigismund as early as 1402 until his death.

Fauxbourdon

The earliest definitely datable example of fauxbourdon is in a motet by Dufay, Supremum est mortalibus, which was written for the treaty reconciling the differences between Pope Eugene IV and Sigismund, after which Sigismund was crowned as Holy Roman Emperor, which happened on May 31, 1433.

Križevci, Croatia

The so-called Lower Križevac developed somewhat slower than its twin town: it became a free royal town in 1405, thanks to king Sigismund.

Pukanec

King Sigismund declared a free mining enterprise and ordered to build fortifications.

Robert Hallam

Sigismund, Holy Roman Emperor, through whose influence the council had been assembled, was absent during the whole of 1416 on a diplomatic mission in France and England; but when he returned to Constance in January 1417, as the open ally of the English king, Hallam as Henry V's trusted representative obtained increased importance, and contrived to emphasise English prestige by delivering the address of welcome to Sigismund.

Sigismund Kęstutaitis

Sigismund was his baptismal name; Sigismund's pagan Lithuanian birth name is unknown.

Sigismund, Archduke of Austria

One notable casualty of the conflict was the condottiero Roberto Sanseverino d'Aragona.

Sigismund, Holy Roman Emperor

His attempts at the diet of Nuremberg in 1422 to raise a mercenary army were foiled by the resistance of the towns; and in 1424 the electors, among whom was Sigismund's former ally, Frederick I of Hohenzollern, sought to strengthen their own authority at the expense of the king.

Also, Sigismund granted control of the Margraviate of Brandenburg (which he had received back after Jobst's death) to Frederick I of Hohenzollern, burgrave of Nuremberg (1415).

With the support of Sigismund, Stibor become one of the most influential men in late medieval Europe, holding titles as Duke of Transylvania and owning about 25% of Slovakia of today including 31 castles of which 15 were situated around the 406 km long Váh river with surrounding land that was given to him by Sigismund.

Born in Nuremberg, Sigismund was the son of the Holy Roman Emperor, Charles IV, and of his fourth wife, Elizabeth of Pomerania, the granddaughter of King Casimir III of Poland, and the great-granddaughter of the Grand Duke of Lithuania, Gediminas.

Slovenská Ľupča

Other monarchs who frequently resided in the castle were King Charles I, King Louis the Great, Emperor Sigismund, and King Matthias Corvinus.

Stefan Lazarević

Stefan II became an ally of the Kingdom of Hungary and a knight of a special order, so when the Hungarian king Sigismund renewed the Order of the Dragon (Societas draconistrarum) in 1408, Despot Stefan Lazarević was the first on the list of members.

Treaty of Ribe

His master, Emperor Sigismund, now wished to settle the issue, a decision strongly opposed by the Schauenburgers.

Valcău de Jos

King Sigismund of Luxemburg laid siege to it in 1404.


Antipope John XXIII

John did so with hesitation, at first trying to have the council held in Italy (rather than in a German Imperial City, as Sigismund wanted).

Báthory family

Andrew Cardinal Báthory, cousin of Sigismund, Prince of Transylvania, Grand Master of the Order of the Dragon.

Battle of Gniew

Sigismund III Vasa, besieging the city, moved his forces to the north, near Ciepłe, and then took positions on a steep bank.

Bishopric of Brixen

The dissensions between Cardinal Nicholas of Cusa (1450-1464), appointed by Pope Nicholas V as Bishop of Brixen, and the Austrian Archduke Sigismund of Habsburg were also unfortunate; the cardinal was made a prisoner, and although the pope placed the diocese under an interdict, Sigismund came out victor in the struggle.

Catherine of Saxony

Catherine of Saxony, Archduchess of Austria (1468–1524), daughter of Albert III, Duke of Saxony and wife of Sigismund, Archduke of Austria

Crusade of Varna

After King Sigismund died in 1437, the attacks intensified, with the Ottomans occupying Borač in 1438 and Zvornik and Srebrenica in 1439.

Ernest I, Prince of Anhalt-Dessau

title=Prince of Anhalt-Dessau
with George II (until 1509)
and Sigismund III (until 1487)

Euphemia of Münsterberg

In order to revenge, the Duchess ordened Sigismund of Rachenau, the castellan of Neuhaus (Chałupki) to plunder and burn the monastery of Heinrichau in 1438.

Feodor Ostrogski

A year later with Sigismund Korybut he attacked the Hungarian monastery in Lechnica.

Grunwald Swords

According to Jan Długosz's chronicle, they bore the coats of arms of their respective masters: a black eagle in a golden field of King Sigismund of the Romans, and a red griffin in a silver field of Duke Casimir V of Pomerania.

Henry X Rumpold

Under the service of Emperor Sigismund, Henry X was a mediator in international affairs, and he was sent in a diplomatic mission to Denmark, where after successfully negotiations with the King Eric, was arranged his betrothal with the King's first cousin Adelaide (b. 1410 - d. aft. 1445), daughter of Duke Bogislaw VIII of Pomerania-Stargard; but he died soon after in a military camp in Flubsberg.

Ishak Bey Kraloğlu

The reign of Sigismund's brother was cut short by the Ottoman conquest of Bosnia in 1463, when Mehmed the Conqueror had him beheaded alongside their uncle Radivoj and cousin Tvrtko.

Ivan Frankopan

With the support of his good friend and former employer, Eric of Pomerania who became King of Sweden, he triumphed over King Sigismund.

Jakob Sigismund von Reinach-Steinbrunn

Jakob Sigismund von Reinach-Steinbrunn was born in Obersteinbrunn, the son of Johann Jakob Kaspar Sigmund Freiherr von Reinach-Steinbrunn (d. 1693) and his wife Maria Salome Lucia von Pfirt (d. 1721).

János Ghyczy

He entered into the service of Prince John Sigismund Zápolya who gave him Csókfalva (today part of Ghindari, Romania) and Bede (today: Bedeni, Romania) in Marosszék (later: Maros-Torda County).

Johann Sigismund Scholze

Johann Sigismund Scholze alias Sperontes (20 March 1705 in Lobendau bei Liegnitz (today Lubiatów near Złotoryja) 28 September 1750 in Leipzig) was a Silesian music anthologist and poet.

Johannes Messenius

He showed his newly acquired fidelity to the House of Vasa by a new genealogic work and by translating into Latin a number of writings against Sigismund of Poland (King Charles' brother).

John Mark Frederick Smith

He was son of Major-general Sir John Frederick Sigismund Smith, K.C.H., of the Royal Artillery (died 1834), and grand-nephew of Field-marshal Friedrich Adolf, Count von Kalckreuth, commander-in-chief of the Prussian army.

Kremenets Castle

Krements Castle came into existence long before princess Bona Sforza, wife of Polish king Sigismund the First.

Login Geiden

Born in Zuidlaren, in the north east of the Netherlands, van Heiden was the second son of Imperial Count Sigismund Pieter Alexander van Heiden, Lord of Reinestein and Laarwoud, Drost of Drenthe, and Baroness Marie Frederique van Reede.

Magi Chapel

Traditionally, his features have been read as those of Joseph, Patriarch of Constantinople, who died in Florence during the Council; but they could also be those of Sigismund, Holy Roman Emperor, who helped end the Great Schism by convoking the Council of Constance in 1414.

Maximilian Vogel von Falckenstein

Maximilian Eduard August Hannibal Kunz Sigismund Vogel von Fal(c)kenstein (29 April 1839 – 7 December 1917) was a Prussian General der Infanterie and politician.

Nicolaus Zangius

Zangius was born in Woltersdorf, and became kapellmeister for Philipp Sigismund, Prince Bishop of Osnabrück and later John Sigismund, Elector of Brandenburg.

Palace of the Kings of Majorca

In 1415, the Holy Roman Emperor, Sigismund of Luxemburg, organised a European summit in Perpignan, to convince the Avignon Antipope Benedict XIII to resign his office and take to an end the Western Schism through the Council of Constance.

Polish Golden Age

In architecture, Renaissance and Mannerism prevailed (see Renaissance in Poland, Mannerist architecture and sculpture in Poland), with best examples being the Sigismund's Chapel of the Wawel Cathedral, tenement houses, churches and town halls in Poznan, Krakow, Zamosc, Kazimierz Dolny, Lublin, Lwow, Gdansk and other cities, as well as castles (Pieskowa Skala, Krzyztopor, Krasiczyn, Baranow Sandomierski and others).

Prachatice

Only one year later the town was offered as collateral to Jan Smil of Krems by King Zikmund (Sigismund, Holy Roman Emperor), but fell under the control of the House of Rožmberk for a short period following Smil's execution in 1439 at Böhmisch Krummau (Český Krumlov).

Princess Léa of Belgium

Born the daughter of Sigismund Wolman and wife Lisa Bornstein (Nuremberg, 1916 - Brussels, 29 October 1996), in 1975 she married Serge Victorovich Spetschinsky (born in Léopoldville, Belgian Congo, on 25 April 1951), from whom she was divorced in 1980.

Sigismund I, Prince of Anhalt-Dessau

Sigismund assumed the title "Lord of Zerbst," but established the town of Dessau as his main residence and capital of his newly created principality of Anhalt-Dessau.

Sigismund I, Prince of Anhalt-Dessau (d. Coswig, 19 January 1405), was a German prince of the House of Ascania and ruler of the principality of Anhalt-Zerbst until 1396, when he became the first ruler of the principality of Anhalt-Dessau.

Sigismund of Burgundy

In 535, Sigismund's remains were recovered from the well at Coulmiers and buried in the monastery at Agaune.

Sigismund of Lithuania

Sigismund II Augustus (1520 – 1572), King of Poland and Grand Duke Sigismund III of Lithuania

Sigismund Kęstutaitis (ca. 1365 - 1440), Grand Duke Sigismund I of Lithuania

Trent Codices

Emperor Frederick III's cousin Sigismund, who was Duke of the Tyrol, had a large and sophisticated musical chapel at Innsbruck.

Veveří Castle

During the Hussite wars, Emperor Sigismund positioned mercenary forces of his son-in-law, Albrecht of Austria, around the castle, but he later pledged it to local nobleman Petr Kutěj in 1424.