Sigismund II Augustus

Ruler of Poland and Lithuania from 1529 to 1572

Sigismund II Augustus (Polish: Zygmunt II August, Lithuanian: Žygimantas Augustas; 1 August 1520 – 7 July 1572) was King of Poland and Grand Duke of Lithuania, the son of Sigismund I the Old, whom Sigismund II succeeded in 1548. He was the first ruler of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth and the last male monarch from the Jagiellonian dynasty. Sigismund was the elder of two sons of Italian-born Bona Sforza and Sigismund the Old, and the only one to survive infancy.

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